Technology Lead
Chicago, IL

Job Description

As a Technology Lead you'll be in charge of the day-to-day - overseeing the technology team and working to improve the process and systems we use to deliver to our clients. We have the ability to determine and quickly evolve the systems and process used to deliver our work, so you'll be able to have an immediate impact. More important than any particular technical skill, ideal candidates will be able to deftly troubleshoot and problem solve - both technical and process issues.

As Technology Lead you'll partner with a technical Project Manager to allot work and coordinate releases. POCs, DevOps, etc. Your team will have all the skills necessary from front-end talent to operational support including QA and DBA.

You will:

* Lead the technology team to create engaging, reliable, high-performance digital experiences
* Work with the Technology Director on strategic initiatives and campaign work
* Partner with the technical Project Manager, QA Lead, and Ops team to release code to our client's website
* Contribute to solution architecture designs and lead code reviews
* Be a liaison to the near shore development team

You have:

* 5+ years previous experience working as Senior Software Engineer
* Strong fundamental knowledge of ES6 JavaScript outside of any library/framework abstraction
* Experience managing development and delivery of commercial websites or web apps
* Familiarity with website operations and fluency in the typical tiers on a high traffic website
* Detailed problem solver and troubleshooting experiencing
* Experience with the Atlassian suite of tools - JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc
* Experience managing or leading a team