Description

Sign on and relocation bonus available

Aries Technology, LLC has entered a new era of outstanding product development. We’re looking for the very best technical talent to join us in taking on exciting new products and challenges. Based out of fabulous Las Vegas Nevada, Aries has proven to be a pioneer, innovator and industry leader in the exciting and still-growing Gaming Industry.

Do you have what it takes to work with the best in the industry?

Position Purpose

The right Lead Software Engineer could work in any of our areas of technology. They will have primary responsibility for growing, enhancing, and maintaining our wide range of casino gaming systems, applications and tools. The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for mentoring other developers, leading projects from the technical perspective, and providing overall architecture solutions.

Position Responsibilities

The Lead Software Engineer will actively participate in all phases of development including planning, analysis, design, development, and test. Efficiently and expertly write stable, understandable, upgradable, and maintainable code in both C# and C . Assist in establishing quality standards, tools and methodologies for the team to follow. The Lead Software Engineer will interact with multiple teams across the organization and actively solve problems by using all available resources.

Requirements

Specific Accountabilities

• Effectively plans, organizes, and directs resources on projects from a technical perspective. Is accountable for all deliverables and estimates that come out of the group.
• Ensures sound designs that meet current business objectives, while allowing for future growth.
• Ensure scheduling commitments are met.
• Ensures strong OOD through the utilization of design patterns, SOLID principles and component reuse.
• Defines and communicates team goals. Motivates direct reports. Ensures completion of daily tasks. Provides recognition and feedback to the team.
• Mediates and provides guidance during design reviews. Will make the final decision in areas where opinions differ. 
• Ensures code reviews are completed with the right resources following appropriate guidelines. Confirms actions items from the code reviews are carried out.
• Participates actively in all phases of development including planning and analysis, design, development, and testing.
• Provides input and oversight during the design phase. Reviews completed designs and provides final approval.
• Triages and assign defects to the team. Follows up on resolutions provided.
• Ensure the team is using company-wide technology standards. Communicates when technology standards need to be changed or upgraded.
• Reinforces the team's understanding of the architectural vision and strategy.
• Refactors, designs, and develops common features to be used across several server applications.
• Develops and maintains technical documentation and operational procedures for areas of responsibility.
• Provides architectural, C , and C# technical expertise to the development team concerning methods, procedures, and standards to be used during design & development phases. This includes but is not limited to the appropriate use of design, code reviews, and unit tests.
• Responsible for coordinating with developers/leads on other teams in the company for knowledge gathering/sharing and problem solving.
• Investigates and fixes software defects on pre and post-release gaming systems & tools.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Able to communicate effectively with the team and with management. Communicates horizontally across disciplines. Interacts with the team from a leadership position.
• Has the ability to drive and clarify company initiatives.
• Extremely proficient in C and Visual Studio.
• Experience developing in C# and .NET framework.
• Extremely proficient in object-oriented design and development.
• Strong architecture, patterns and design skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to achieve results within tight deadlines.
• Leadership capabilities and experience supporting and mentoring your peers and subordinates.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Willing to travel up to 5%.

Useful Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge or experience with TDD, refactoring, unit testing, continuous integration, and agile best practices are a plus.
• Experience with C# language features such as lambdas, reflection and LINQ.
• Experience with C# WCF communications and MVC4 web applications.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
• Working knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL, or MS SQL Server.
• Solid understanding of best practice for scalable server components.

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary education in one of Computing Science, Software/Computer Engineering, or the equivalent professional experience.
• Experience working with bespoke enterprise communication protocols and standardized protocols like JSON, protocol buffers, message queues, etc.
• Minimum 5 years leading software development team/s and following/improving software development methodologies.
• Minimum 8 years professional software development experience.
• Minimum 5 years of developing C applications in a professional team environment.
• Minimum 4 years of developing C# applications in a professional team environment.