Lead Software Engineer

Job responsibilities

 

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
   
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
   
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
   
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
   
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle
   
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
   
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
   
• Build and operate 24x7, tier‑1 online services
  
  Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
   
• Strong core engineering skills: hands‑on coding and system design for modern enterprise systems. 
   
• Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Rust, Java, Go, C++
   
• Proven track record building and operating 24x7, tier‑1 online services.  
   
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
   
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  
  
   
• Familiarity with open‑source projects in the OLAP/data stack: Apache DataFusion, DuckDB, Apache Arrow Flight SQL.