Lead Software Engineer - Remote
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Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead a team of software engineers to help the continuing transition of Venue (our Virtual Data Room) into a cloud native utility stack application in Azure. He or she will apply software engineering best practices and principles to deliver high quality, maintainable, reliable, performant, and scalable software on schedule, on budget.
● Provide solutions in Azure to complex distributed systems problems
● Work with stakeholders to set and communicate team goals aligned to requirements; ensure the team stays focused on and delivers against the goals, adapting to changing requirements
● Specify non-functional requirements; analyze all requirements to determine design feasibility within time and cost constraints
● Estimate software development timelines and be accountable to the timelines by actively managing risks and changing requirements
● Lead architecture and design applying best practice software engineering including separation of concerns, high cohesion, low coupling, abstraction, encapsulation and information hiding, interfaces, and dependency injection
● Lead implementation using defensive programming and exception handling, fault tolerance, design patterns, and best practices of Object- Oriented Design (OOD) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) such as SOLID
● Test software with traceability back to requirements using autonomous test frameworks and Continuous Integration; unit testing is a daily activity and you insist on a Continuous Integration workflow with zero-downtime deploys
● Improve agile software engineering processes and practices
● Improve the use of software engineering tools (IDEs, test frameworks, static analyzers, etc.) to improve software engineering efficiency
● Identify and reduce technical debt
● Proven experience delivering solutions for complex distributed systems in Azure
● Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills to facilitate collaborative problem solving amongst team members z
● At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience applying best practice software engineering including separation of concerns, high cohesion, low coupling, modularization, encapsulation and information hiding, interfaces, and dependency injection
● At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience applying object oriented programming (OOP) principles such as SOLID
● At least 8 years of experience using C# / .NET, git, Java, and/or Angular 7, Less, and ASP.NET core
● At least 5 years of experience with SQL
● At least 5 years of experience with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), preferably with Azure DevOps
● Experience with caching (RedIs)
● Experience with logging and monitoring in Azure Monitor and Application Insights, and/or using third party applications like AppDynamics or Datadog
● API first design building scalable ReSTful APIs, ideally using an IDL like OData or OpenAPI
● Experience with small teams that move fast - all members are expected to achieve maximum results with minimal direction
● Proven experience setting and meeting software deliverable deadlines
● Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering
Nice to haves
● Experience with Azure Managed SQL
● Containerization and orchestration experience such as Kubernetes or Azure AKS
● Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Math, or Computer/Electrical Engineering
Notes
● You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Sponsorships are not supported at this time.
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