Lead Engineer - Platform Engineering

If you are a passionate technologist who wants to make an impact working on a product that clients love, we’d want to talk with you.

At CB Insights, we build products that help clients make sense of the future and drive their businesses forward, using data. Our system retrieves large amounts of structured and unstructured data, uses scientific methods to extract knowledge and insights from the data and presents the data through a sophisticated dynamic user interface which enables the user to find answers to their most important questions.

The Role You'll Play:

As a Lead Software Engineer at CB Insights you will work with a high performing team to solve challenging technical problems and coach engineers to meet their full potential.  

Our Lead Software Engineer’s main responsibility is to collaborate on high level architectural decisions while regularly shipping high quality code. The ideal candidate not only has technical chops to dive into code, but also has proven ability to provide technical leadership for projects while inspiring a team of software engineers. 

This is a technical role working across the stack, managing core cross cutting concerns including shared libraries and frameworks as well as developer productivity tooling. As a team primarily serving other developers, we aim to simplify the complexities of a microservice environment. In addition to these responsibilities, you will also have the exciting opportunity to own the user model, including authentication and authorization. We focus on modularity and reuse where it makes sense while ensuring that there are no constraints to delivering world-class software continuously following a smooth development process.

If this sounds interesting to you, reach out and join CB Insights now!

Your main tasks:

• Collaborate on core decisions that set the direction for the architecture of our backend services and systems
• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable software systems using Go and Python programming languages.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance the development process and improve system performance.
• Collaborate and contribute to developer enablement initiatives such as enhanced local development, CI/CD, etc
• Mentor and guide more junior engineers, providing technical expertise, code reviews, and constructive feedback to foster their professional growth.
• Lead by example through hands-on coding, code reviews and sprint planning
• Collaborate with the product team to understand business requirements and influence technical strategy conversations across the engineering team

What you bring to the table:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 8+ years professional software development experience with Python or Go
• 3-5 years of experience in a microservice environment
• Strong expertise in designing software architecture and scalable distributed systems.
• Expert level knowledge of database systems (Relational, NoSQL, etc.)
• Expert level knowledge of cloud platforms, AWS preferred
• Expert level knowledge of orchestrating microservices with Kubernetes
• In depth knowledge of Linux and Docker
• Knowledge of application security best practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
• Deep knowledge of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Helpful Humble Human
• Love for experimentation
• Nice to have’s
• Experience with event driven microservices using Kafka
• Proficiency with modern front-end technologies & API designs
• Experience monitoring applications using Datadog
• Experience with Gitlab and CI/CD pipelines

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