Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

13 Jun 2024
California, Sunnyvale, 94085 Sunnyvale USA

Lead Software Engineer

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Stanley X is Stanley Black & Decker's newly created Innovation business dedicated to launching and growing exponentially scalable businesses to address customers' needs within our strategic markets. We are building a capability within Stanley Black & Decker to identify and seize on new sources of growth. We are a group of innovation & business-building professionals located in Silicon Valley and Atlanta, GA.

Stanley X is building a Construction Technology platform to bring new digital services, workflow tools, and data transparency to the construction industry. We are looking for a Full-stack Engineer to define and own the foundation of the platform and design the architecture to scale it globally.

Today's world of construction accounts for over 10% of the world's GDP, and it's no secret that worker productivity and building complexity are the biggest challenges. As a result, the industry is at an inflection point for disruption. Last year alone, nearly $2B in venture capital was invested across 2,000+ companies in construction technology. Stanley Black & Decker is partnering with contractors and startups to develop new digital products that will increase productivity and on-time/on-budget performance of construction projects.

As the product's founding technical hire, you will play an integral role in helping the company shape the future of the construction industry.

About You
You are a hands-on engineering leader who has led agile, lean, high performing teams working on digital services or SaaS platforms. Ideally, you've built modern-day reactive web platforms leveraging microservices deployed in the cloud and on-premise environments. From ground 0 and a highly ambiguous start-up environment to a fully productized team, you have successfully navigated through all of it. As an ideal candidate you -

  • Are a Self-initiator, doer, and results-oriented
  • Thrive in an environment of honesty, responsibility, and accountability
  • Understand the importance of prioritization & positive criticism
  • Know how to quickly show results while keeping an eye on the bigger vision
  • Own the failures with the team and keep their motivation high

Your Professional Experience
As a founding technical leader of the SaaS platform, you have hands-on experience in developing SPA & MPA with the latest reactive technologies and microservices in the cloud and on-premise environments. Your System design is guided by Reusability, Scalability & Extensibility as north stars. Apart from also having experience, opinions on engineering processes, systems & tools ideally your professional journey should consist of -

Technical
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5-6 years of development experience as a Lead Software Engineer using OO and/or functional programming languages
  • Implementing Industry-standard Design principles into production deployed platforms
  • In-depth understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms
  • Hands-on experience in using cloud SQL, No-SQL, and other distributed data storages
  • Deep understanding of latest web technologies, including System Architecture, Cloud Deployments, Containerization, Authentication Systems, and Protocols
  • Critical experience in tradeoffs off b/w cost, scale, speed, and agility
  • Ability to break & build your own system design, preventing a bad customer experience

Leadership
  • Lead a nimble team of engineers to adopt & advocate for best engineering practices, reusable module designs resulting in a quality and fast-paced deliverable
  • Worked across teams to define quantified, deliverable technical details from high-level requirements
  • Strong communication skills & ability to estimate, prioritize & execute on the technical plan

Nice to have
  • Experience in Construction Tech and Additive Manufacturing a plus
  • Hand on experience in distributed data processing systems such as Apache Spark, S3, HDFS, etc

Things you will do
We are a small and nimble team, so you'll likely get to experience and participate in many projects in various technical capacities. However, you should expect the following set of responsibilities:

Technical
  • Provide technical perspective for our Construction Technology platform globally
  • Leading your pod from the front with a hands-on contribution towards the deliverables
  • Convert high-level product requirements into definitive technical deliverables, designs & plans
  • Contribute towards Design and development of scalable multifaced Data processing platform
  • Vet your systems for fault tolerance, scalability, high availability & agility
  • Establish a deep technical understanding of our technology partners and ecosystem
  • Keep engineering leadership informed on progress and actively manage risks and issues

Leadership
  • Keep the success of our customers as the guiding principle of everything you do
  • Ensure the success of your pod by effort estimations & planning, continuously unblocking challenges & owning its deliverables end to end
  • Reflect critically on designs, processes, and frameworks to improve the speed/quality, or usability of your pod's deliverables

Why work with us
Solve massive problems for customers
We approach problems with a lean startup methodology, focused on in-depth user research and addressing the most critical problems first. We are a technology and innovation team that leads with the voice of customers, value-based pricing, and strong secondary research and competitive analysis.
Visibility to senior leadership
Our team reports directly to the CEO and operate autonomously within the company. This role will report to the head of the group and work closely with different teams.
Work with great companies
We work with some of the most innovative companies in construction technology, additive manufacturing, and supply chain. Our partners range from Y Combinator startups to multi-billion-dollar unicorns. You'll have unparalleled access to their technologies and the freedom to explore new and innovative ways of solving customer problems.
About Stanley Black & Decker
For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done-and we have since 1843.

We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier-empowering people to do better safer, more significant work. We define success as delivering value to our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety, andsustainabilityhelps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind while helping to make the world better.
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All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or any other protected characteristic.

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