Cohesion is a leading Intelligent Buildings software solution that is disrupting how buildings operate and how people engage with buildings – from real estate owners/investors, operators, building engineers, to tenants and visitors. Our cutting-edge converged IoT-enabled platform brings together building systems, building software, and business applications into a single portal for on web and mobile platforms to forge the path to autonomous buildings. 

We are searching for a Lead Platform Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in our Chicago office. This role will report to the Program Director. The Lead Platform Engineer is responsible for envisioning and building products that users love and delivers measurable business value. The right candidate will enjoy solving difficult and novel problems with the leadership to build and maintain a high-performing team. 

What You’ll Do 

• Lead, coach, mentor, and grow an engineering team of 3 to 6 developers. 

• Manage priorities, dependencies, dates, and deliverables for the team. 

• Plan and coordinate the execution of work among a team while balancing priorities in coordination with the Program Director. 

• Represent a long-term perspective on our technical landscape. 

• Ensure the team’s adherence to software best practices. 

• Work closely with operations and software engineering teams to design and implement scalable and high performance solutions for our platform and internal management tools. 

• Drive automation of application deployment for production and pre-release environments. 

• Define monitoring requirements and implement automated incident resolution solutions. 

• Design, implement, and manage continuous integration, build management, and deployment scripts and systems. 

• Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot simple and complex issues in order to provide outstanding support. 

• Identify areas for process and efficiency improvement within platform operations; recommend solutions and assist in implementation. 

• Define and document standard run books and operating procedures.  Create and maintain system information and architecture diagrams. 

• Monitor various systems capacity and health indicators and trends; provide analytics and forecasts for added or reduced capacity as required. 

• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of the team’s customers. 

• Provide ongoing, transparent communication with a focus on expectations fostering trust with internal stakeholders and external partners. 

Required Qualifications 

• Minimum of 5 years of overall related experience. 

• Experience coaching and mentoring teammates. 

• Bachelor’s level education or higher in computer science, information technology, or related field. 

• Hands-on experience with configuration management, monitoring, change management, and trending. 

• Experience working in a global team. 

• Production experience running applications at scale on a cloud platform. 

• Understanding of automation practices throughout the development, build, and deployment phases of the application lifecycle. 

• Strong conceptual, strategic thinking, problem solving, technical, and analytical skills. 

• Experience with the following technology concepts: 

• Data warehousing and data engineering 

• Designing and building microservice based architectures 

• SaaS Platform development 

• Frontend development 

• Security best practices 

• Production Kubernetes experience 

• Position requires flexibility to work outside of non-traditional business hours as required to perform job duties.

Desired Qualifications 

• Relevant industry experience. 

• Graduate level education in computer science, information technology, or related field. 

• Understanding of the IoT domain. 

• Designing and implementing multi-tenant applications. 

• Experience in the Real Estate industry. 

• Strong understanding of Agile development processes. 

• Early stage startup experience. 

What you can expect from Cohesion 

Cohesion is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible, full-time employees in the United States. Our benefits are designed to invest in our employees— and their family’s —well-being, including investments in their health, happiness, and well-being. 

• Receiving a competitive compensation package, including bonus, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401k match 

• Receiving a monthly cell phone reimbursement 

• Comprehensive wellness reimbursement program (eligible after 6 months of employment) 

• Enjoying a responsible unlimited PTO program (after 3 months of employment) to help employees maintain work-life balance 

• 2-way flexibility of work schedules 

• Dressing for your day 

• Enjoying family leave benefits 

• Temporary transit benefits  

At Cohesion, we see diversity and inclusion as a source of strength. We believe building trust and innovation are best achieved through diverse thought and practice. Individuals seeking employment at Cohesion are considered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.