Lead Software Engineer - Blocklight
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Managerial responsibilities:

* Assist Blocklight management with defining software engineering roadmap
* Translate high-level roadmap milestones into actionable software engineering tasks (managed using Trello)
* Assign tasks and associated deadlines to members of the software engineering team; also ensure that tasks are being completed on-time
* Act as the primary day-to-day contact for members of the software engineering team (i.e., answering questions as they arise, assisting with troubleshooting, assisting with coordination among the team)
* Consistently communicate with Blocklight management to keep them informed of software engineering progress, current roadblocks, and all other relevant information
* Manage code source control (using Git)
* Serve as owner of the development and master branches, merging in code from other branches as appropriate and resolving merge conflicts when they occur
* Ensure that code is automatically and correctly updated on development and master servers


* Design and implement core software (i.e., the most important backend logic functions, data pipelines, API syncing tasks)
* Design new database table architectures and assist team in implementation (as integrations with new third-party APIs are added)
* Implement and test machine learning models (used to enable more advanced business metrics)
* Improve and optimize current software for scalable performance

Technical responsibilities:

Requirements

Strong candidates will have extensive experience with the following:

* Python
* Django
* MySQL
* Javascript
* React
* HTML
* CSS

Experience is preferred with the following:

* Machine learning (and associated frameworks e.g., PyTorch)
* NoSQL (Mongo DB)
* Highcharts JS
* Linux server management
* Celery
* Nginx
* Gunicorn