Description :

Vena Solutions is seeking a Technical Lead Staff Software Developer who will act as an engineering team leader driving high-quality delivery of product improvements, while staying hands-on and contributing to the codebase for our cloud-native SaaS product.

This role is a match for you if you are looking to combine your technical and leadership skills to enable a team of developers and work with them to deliver robust, performant and maintainable software!.

How You'll Make an Impact :

- Leads day-to-day engineering team operations, ensuring the team is delivering both impactful product improvements as well as improving the quality of the codebase in a sustainable manner.

- Acts as the "architect within the team", in collaboration with Software Architects.

- Leads system design for major changes/improvements in alignment with overall software architecture strategy.

- Solves the team's toughest technical challenges, enables others to help solve them when possible.

- Works with Product Managers to ensure plans/roadmaps are achievable, deliveries are met, and team resource gaps are understood and addressed.

- Reviews team epics and projects critically, ensure theyre appropriately broken down and prioritised, and well-understood by the team.

- Mentors, coaches, and teaches others in coding best practices in an open and empathetic way, through pairing, code reviews, etc.

- Ensures long-term codebase health and ensure that tech debt issues are properly prioritized in quarterly and Sprint Planning.

- Advocates for and executes development initiatives, best practices and coding standards.

- May act as a Guild/Chapter Lead to drive broadly impactful functional improvements across the engineering department.

We'd Love to See :

- 7+ years of experience in software development.

- 1+ year of experience leading a software development team as a Tech Lead (or playing the role informally).

- Foundational understanding of algorithms and computational complexity.

- Experience developing in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent cloud environments.

- Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline and/or equivalent experience.

- Prior experience in a Scrum / Agile environment.

- You are self-motivated and self-directed.

- You are excited at the prospect of working on interesting technology with other friendly and enthusiastic developers.

- You enjoy leading teams and seeing people come together to deliver impactful, performant and delightful software.