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Client is seeking an Engineering Lead to manage a small backend team within our Content Platform. This team will complete large projects enhancing our content platform, which powers more than 1500 sites across 24 countries, reaching more than 1.5 billion unique users. You will assemble a high-performing team and work alongside them to take complex projects from requirements gathering to design, planning, implementation, testing, release, support, and monitoring. This role is located in CT or ET hours and reports to the manager of the Publishing Platform.Responsibilities• Assemble a high-performing team by recruiting, coaching, and retaining team members. Grow company talent by providing appropriately challenging work, devoting one-on-one time to listening, providing constructive evaluative feedback, and supporting them in pursuing appropriate opportunities for advancement or inspiration.• Fulfill our SLAs (service-level agreements) by participating in on-call, supporting the team in resolving incidents, producing RCAs, and implementing best practices.• Deliver value regularly by practicing effective agile development and change management. Deliver impactful projects by selecting incremental milestones and iterating. Chart a path to company objectives by collaborating with leadership and your team’s product manager to establish and maintain a roadmap.• Earn customer trust by upholding security best practices and participating in Arc’s security processes.• Meet technical challenges by combining custom development, open source solutions, and prudent selection of third-party service providers. Set a high bar for quality through automated testing, peer review, and observability technologies.• Design technical solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements by collaborating with your team, stakeholders, experts within the company, and appropriate consultants.Qualifications• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.• Experience managing engineers or successfully mentoring peers.• Experience leading the implementation of technical projects.• Proficiency with one or more server-side programming languages, such as Go or Node.js• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing.• Excellent written and oral communication skills.• Preferred: Experience with relational or document databases.• Preferred: Experience with scalable cloud-based applications.• Preferred: Expertise delivering REST or GraphQL APIs at scale.• Nice-to-have: Experience with event-processing technologies.
