Lead Software Engineer at HyperionDev

ABOUT THE ROLE 

As the LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER you will be responsible for initiating and executing on all aspects of our bespoke software platforms, including but not limited to:

• Our student portal
• Our mentor portals
• Our placements portal
• Our website and payment gateways
• Our sign up flows
• Our data analysis platforms
• Our tech stack consists primarily of Python, Django, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Route53), PostgreSQL, and Ubuntu. We don’t require a perfect match with our tech stack, so a solid background in similar languages like Java, and frameworks like Spring, will transfer easily into our environment. It’s more about understanding the fundamentals of the web and databases, than specific tech stacks.

To make a success of this position you will need to be a creative problem solver, have advanced technical skills, be adaptive, have high standards and the ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders - technical and non-technical.  

Depending on applicant preference, this job can be fully remote.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and write high quality code for our website and platforms using Python and Django
• Collaborate with other members of the team to execute engineering projects, plan sprint cycles, undertake technical troubleshooting, and reduce technical debt
• Coach and mentor junior developers on the team
• Work closely with Product to help in planning, designing and creating an implementation roadmap of platform features which will be used by tens of thousands of people around the world
• Refactor and improve legacy code as areas of requirements volatility are found and bug hotspots are uncovered
• Communicate with technical people through clean code and documentation, and with non-technical people by translating their requirements into implementable milestones and smaller goals

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum

• 5+ years of  experience in hands-on software development
• Experience with Python, Django, Postgres and AWS, or similar stacks like Java/Spring
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An interest in the future of developer education, assessments, tooling and placements

Preferred 

• 2+ years of experience leading a software development team specifically at a fast growing tech startup
• Prior tech startup experience in a high-growth and ambitious environment
• Experience in scaling a rapidly growing a development team
• Interest and experience in machine learning and natural language processing 
• Interest in recent pedagogical advances in computing and online education