Senior Software Technical Lead
Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.
Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. We’re eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chef’s offerings.
While most of us continue to work remotely, our newly renovated headquarters at the Old Post Office is open for voluntary return to work.
Our Senior Software Technical Lead will have a heavy focus on writing code to solve business problems and handle tickets. In addition, they will aid in mentoring other software engineers, interviewing potential software engineers and participating in discussions with team relevant to workload, stakeholders and sprints.
*** This position is fully remote ***
Writing code to solve business problems:
- Using Ruby on Rails, React/React Native, and vanilla Javascript and CSS.
- Familiarity with Tailwind or Material UI is a plus.
- Hosting on Heroku, using a Postgres database
- Communicating idiosyncrasies and trade offs in advanced technical topics, and confidently making decisions, with buy-in, on those topics
- Architecting complex systems in a way that is usable and maintainable by other developers; making high-level design choices and communicating expected technical standards
- Providing detailed, constructive feedback on pull requests in a timely fashion, enabling engineers to ship code to production efficiently
Mentoring other software engineers and pair programming; collaborating with others:
- Pairing with software engineers to write code
- Assisting software engineers in discovering opportunities for them to grow their skill-set and learn, both technically and non-technically
- Leading meetings about various technical topics
- Ensuring teams meet their sprint goals/commitments
Interviewing potential software engineers:
- Asking thoughtful questions to candidates
- Assessing a candidate's technical ability as well as their contribution to our team’s culture
- Pair programming with candidates
- Providing specific, timely feedback to the Home Chef team about candidate’s interview performance
Facilitating impactful discussions:
- Willing to take technical/architecture lead on large projects
- Understanding the technical impact on product planning, and communicating that clearly to the product team
- Actively seeking strategic ways to improve the company and increase positive outcomes in technology
- Held highly accountable to individual and team commitments, while also having the ability to hold the team accountable
Qualifications:
- Have built and shipped major features in Ruby on Rails or React, including data modeling
- Must be comfortable working with version control such as GitHub
- Must be well-versed in at least one professional code editor (Atom, Sublime, VS Code, Vim, etc.)
- Must be comfortable working with tools like Slack and GSuite
- Must be willing to respond to on-call events when they occur
- Some advanced SQL knowledge is a plus, but not required
- Experience with Heroku a plus
- Experience with React Native a plus
- Six months to one year of formal or informal experience in leading other individuals
- Must hold a general high school degree or equivalent, or up to one year of post-high school training such as college, vocational school, developer bootcamps, etc.
The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
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Perks/Benefits:
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – benefits start the 1st day of the month following your start date
- Company paid Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability
- 401k Employer match - 50% on the $1, up to 6% of the employee's earnings
- We offer flexible spending accounts (FSA) for qualified Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, or Transit expenses
- Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days
- Generous Parental Leave
- Great Work/Life Balance – We value and support each individual team member
- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings
- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function
- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop, plus an extra screen
- Onsite gym
- Weekly Fooda credit
- Newly renovated office in the historic Old Main Post Office which is located close to multiple Metra and CTA options
- Employee discounts through Perkspot
- Discounts on Home Chef meal kits and at Kroger stores
- Casual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment
Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
How We Work Together
We are humble team players.
We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.
We are pragmatic next-level thinkers.
We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.
We take ownership.
We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.
Be at Home at Home Chef
We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that you’ll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.
We welcome people of all races, colors, religions, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.
Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at [email protected].
Home Chef is an equal opportunity employer.
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