Team Lead, Software Development
Remote, United States
Join our team as a Team Lead, Software Development!
About the Role
As a Team Lead, Software Development at Skilljar Inc., you will have a unique opportunity to lead a team that exhibits commendable work behaviors, enabling you to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment. In this role, you will apply your deep understanding of web development, encompassing both front-end and back-end technologies, to effectively guide our software development efforts. With your strong coding skills and proficiency in architectural patterns, you will steer the team towards delivering flawless and world-class products.
What You'll Do
- Team Leadership: Provide direction, guidance, and support to the team, ensuring collaboration and inclusion.
- People Management: Set clear performance expectations, establish specific goals and metrics, conduct weekly 1:1’s, and mentor individual contributors.
- Career Development: Identify skill development opportunities, foster continuous learning, and support professional growth through mentorship and development plans.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers and designers to deliver quality product functionality and maintain team alignment.
- Technical Influence: Contribute to technical conversations, improve technical practices, and lead design reviews and technical decision-making processes.
- Technical Contribution: Write code, review code, and lead minor initiatives, dedicating 40-50% of your time to technical contributions.
- Process Management: Increase team efficiency through Lean agile processes, track and plan for tech debt, and drive application design and architecture initiatives.
- Other Duties and Responsibilities: As assigned.
What You'll Bring
- At least 2 years of experience managing or leading software development engineers.
- Proven experience delivering high-quality features, balancing time-to-market and scalability.
- Demonstrated ability to build web applications at scale using Django, Rails, or equivalent frameworks.
Nice to Haves
- Knowledge of standard methodologies for the full software development process.
- Confidence throughout the stack, from building front-end interfaces to backends and APIs.
- Self-directed and comfortable in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements and designs.
- Strong ability to collaborate with excellent communication skills.
Base Pay Philosophy
At Skilljar, we strive for salary range transparency in our hiring process. This is a major step towards not only complying with state and local regulations where required, but also to make sure Skilljar is putting pay equity and DEIB top of mind during the hiring process. Base salary is only a part of the total rewards package - …
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Tasks- Collaboration
- People Management
- Team Leadership
Architectural Patterns Back-end Technologies Communication Django Rails Web development
Experience2 years
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