Role Description
POSITION SUMMARY
Lead the globally distributed front-end and back-end teams in the hands-on developing and maintaining of Basepaws’ internal and external web applications.
Work with the Head of Engineering, other software engineers, the Product Team, and, on occasion, other members of the Zoetis/Basepaws organization.
A collaborative work ethic and easy-going nature are a must. Extensive experience in similar roles as part of a direct-to-consumer (D2C) environment is a big plus.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead the front-end and back-end software engineering teams in developing new features, iterating on existing features, and reducing tech debt
Collaborate with the Product team on designs and plans for new and existing features within our application suite
Work with the Data team to ensure that Engineering, Product, Science, and other teams have access to the data they require
Drive the documentation of the architecture and all development processes
Ensure the code’s reliability, uptime, security, and speed meet expectations
Work with the Head of Engineering and the Product team to plan work for upcoming sprints, as well as retrospectives
Work with the team to build the vision created by the Product team with a strong emphasis on building solid, dependable, well-documented code with a focus on the scalability of the overall architecture
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
- 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineering Team Lead
- 7+ years of experience as a Back end or Full Stack Software Engineer, including the following experience:
- Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining enterprise B2B and B2C applications
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Typescript or JavaScript (TS is strongly preferred)
- Experience with or a strong understanding of ReactJS.
- Ubuntu, including installation and shell scripting.
- Microservices architecture
- AWS Cloud services (EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS, Glue, Athena, etc.)
- Design and implementation of data structures and tools for use in data analytics.
- Excellent collaborative and communication skills
- Strong testing and documentation habits
- Independent and able to take ownership of features/projects.
Bonus Capabilities
- Strong Object-Oriented Programming experience
- Microservices Architecture experience
- Experience with PM2 for NodeJS
- Experience with genomics, bioinformatics, or similar scientific pipelines.
- Experience working with MongoDB, or other NoSQL databases.
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