Lead Software Engineer

Join Kobie, a National Top Workplace and Top Remote Workplace, where the best minds in loyalty come together, driven by passion and innovation.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be part of a collaborative, growth-focused culture, working remotely with a flexible work environment.

About the Role You are a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, automated build processes, testing, peer review, and DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Gain the respect of your team and coach engineers at multiple levels to apply best practices when solutioning work items for our products.
• Support and lead all phases of the Agile methodology (grooming, designing, coding, testing).
• Focus on outcomes as opposed to output and ensure timely delivery of high-quality, flexible, and maintainable solutions.
• Participate in design sessions; work with product owners to ensure your solutions meet the needs of the business and our customers.
• Assist other team members with questions and provide guidance and mentorship on best practices and new technology adoption.
• Promote and demonstrate good coding practice and patterns for the team.
• Establish and reinforce standards in the areas of coding, design, security, automation, and testing.
• Create and maintain a highly engaging and respectful work environment that encourages learning and the advancement of our people, process, and tooling.

Requirements

• Experience leading development teams who are responsible for the successful delivery of prioritized roadmap items.
• Experience designing and developing applications and components using J2EE technologies, SOA architecture, with sound knowledge in front-end technologies to deliver vertical slices of value.
• Deep experience with service-oriented architecture and API development within a containerized deployment environment.
• Experience with distributed computing and object-oriented design and analysis.
• Strong relational database skills using PostgreSQL / Oracle.
• Strong knowledge of Enterprise Messaging/Integration Patterns.
• Experience in developing XML / JSON-based web-services.
• Experience in Java technologies: JMS, MDB, JPA (Hibernate).
• Familiarity with key Java frameworks and libraries such as Spring (Boot, MVC, Security, Data), Hibernate/JPA, and relevant testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).
• Experience with high-volume, real-time applications.
• In-depth experience with Agile (e.g., Scrum Process).
• Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ.
• Java, Bamboo/GIT, Open-source components and frameworks.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development and BDD.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Spring frameworks (Core, Boot, Batch, Data, REST).
• Extensive experience in Microservices Architecture, GraphQL.
• Build Management tools (GitHub Actions, Hudson).
• Familiarity and experience with AI/ML-driven tooling.
• AWS, EKS, Karpenter, ArgoCD.