Lead Software Engineer
Mclean, VA

Job Description

At Appian, we're not only about building awesome software, but also about growing our culture of passion, energy, and innovation; great people, great software! As a Lead Software Engineer at Appian you will help build the next generation of our core low-code application development platform and help tackle our most challenging technical problems alongside other brilliant engineers. What is Appian? It's a low-code application platform that lets business people build powerful enterprise web and mobile apps with flexible, visual models instead of clunky custom code.

About you:

* You have 6+ years experience building and delivering software applications
* You possess excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills
* You're a tinkerer at heart with an innate ability to solve tough programming problems
* You hold a BS in Computer Science and/or equivalent years of experience writing code
* Agile is your mantra and quality is your goal
* You have no problem with OOP or functional programming
* Data structures & algorithms delight you; you thrive on solving labyrinthine problems within large, high-performance, real-time, distributed data systems

How You'll Contribute:

* In a small scrum team you will develop simple yet elegant solutions to complex technical problems
* Manage availability, latency, scalability, security and efficiency of data access within Appian by engineering reliability into software and systems
* Play an integral part the design, architecture, standards and Agile methods for our web-based and mobile platform
* Automate functional testing as well as testing for performance and security
* Respond to and resolve emergent problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
* Mentor other software engineers and perform code reviews

Appian Corporation is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Further, Appian will not discriminate against applicants for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co‐worker, Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination.

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