Application Development Team Lead

Rocket Lawyer is seeking an experienced, passionate Application Development Team Lead who wants to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a talented agile team. As part of a cross-functional team consisting of a product manager, designer, 4-6 software engineers and QA analysts, you will be actively managing the development team to fulfill the business needs.

We value a fun, collaborative, team-oriented work environment, where we celebrate our accomplishments. 

A Day in the Life

• Participate in defining our evolving one secure global platform architecture
• Design and build world-class software components, including: services, APIs, tooling, and technical documentation
• Give feedback to and proactively seek it from your peers and stakeholders
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Work with DevOps team to ensure smooth deployment
• Demonstrate your work to internal and external audiences
• Be active within the wider engineering community

Experience

• Experiencing being a technical lead
• Experiencing shipping and supporting commercial Saas products
• BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, or equivalent
• 9+ years experience in high-growth technology environments
• Strong command of Java and OO design and principles
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience designing and developing web service APIs
• Experience working with event streaming architectures
• Experience working with Relational and NoSQL databases
• Practiced test-driven development utilizing unit testing frameworks and automated testing tools
• Experience working in an agile/iterative environment
• Experience with Git
• Must be proactive, thorough and organized
• Demonstrated success working with small, collaborative cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with Jenkins and CI/CD environments

Nice To Haves

• Experience with deploying API’s thru Apigee 
• Experience working with exposing API’s to partners and development center portal
• Experience with API authentication 
• Experience developing front-end web technologies such as HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Experience with Cloud Platforms like GCP or AWS
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience developing internationalized software 
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Redis and HBase