Title: Lead Software Engineer, Rights and Repertoire teamsDepartment: TechnologyJob Location: Washington, DC or anywhere (Continental US)Reports To: Director, EngineeringSupervisory Role: YesFLSA Status: Exempt

Position Summary:

The Lead Software Engineer for our Rights and Repertoire team will be a key contributor to full lifecycle software development while coaching, leading, and mentoring their small technical team. This role oversees the technical details and day-to-day execution of all new features and operational activities within the development team in collaboration with the technical product owner. The Lead Engineer is a critical element in our agile delivery process for new features and capabilities to support our growing music royalty processing platform.

Essential Functions:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and people management to a small team of software engineers
• Collaborate across small Agile teams to design, develop, test, and support data driven solutions
• Facilitate architecture discussions and decision-making both within their team and coordination with interfacing teams
• Interface with key project stakeholders, mentor team members, and promote and improve software engineering practices
• Demonstrate responsibility, accountability, and dedication to engineering team success
• Establish and promote use of technologies and processes that lower risk and increase efficiency
• Support and improve established software development standards and best practices
• Support and improve existing software applications
• Design, or collaborate on designing, new software applications or features

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs):

• Proficiency at designing and developing software using many of the following: Java, Spring, SQL (Postgres), AWS (S3, Fargate, OpenSearch, RDS, Cloudfront, etc.), JavaScript, Typescript
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code technologies
• Experience with Vue, Angular, or React
• Experience building enterprise software with complex business rules and data models
• Experience designing and developing microservices or other distributed systems
• Experience with scaling to work with large data sets
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively with team members and business partners
• Proficiency in Agile software development methodology, processes, and practices 

Required Education, Certifications/ Licenses, Related Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 7 or more years of experience in software engineering
• At least 2 years of experience leading and managing a software engineering team strongly preferred

ADA Specifications:

• This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing and/or seated) all of the time
• This position requires the ability to spend all of the time viewing computer monitors

Travel Requirements:

• If hired remote, this person is expected to travel to the Washington DC corporate office as needed (3-4 times per year minimum).