Tech Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Full-Stack Tech Lead
SpotOn is a fast-growing marketing, loyalty, and payments platform that helps small business owners understand and reach out to their customers and increase revenues by making informed decisions. Customers can discover businesses using our mobile apps, then at order time can check-in and pay for their orders using our mobile and tablet applications. The resulting data allows merchants to send targeted marketing campaigns, track their online reputation, and monitor the growth effect loyal customers can have on revenues, through our flagship web application.
As a Tech Lead at SpotOn, you will be responsible for the overall architecture, quality, and delivery of your team's client-facing product offerings. You will mentor, drive, and execute with your team to produce innovative technical solutions that lead to scalable, reliable, and polished applications. You will achieve this by owning and leading the team through its full software development lifecycle. This will include parsing product requirements to create architectural designs and specifications, instituting and enforcing front-end standards, evangelizing code quality best practices via various testing methodologies, and driving repeatable and consistent systems for code deployment.
Technical Aptitude

• Comprehensive front-end architectural knowledge, illustrated by understanding the nuances and trade-offs of different approaches depending on project context
• Intimate understanding of foundational front-end and back end technologies.
• Awareness of the tenets and benefits of a design system as well as experience with their implementation
• Ability to adopt complex UI and UX requirements into responsive, cross-browser, cross-device experiences
• Understanding of semantic markup and its effect on accessibility and internationalization
• Extensive experience with React and the greater React-ecosystem
• Expertise in API-based development via REST and/or GraphQL
• Robust debugging skills with the ability to quickly identify root cause, up and down the stack
• Experience in a distributed, cloud-based, micro-service architecture

Quality Focus

• Takes ownership of code quality from beginning to end of code lifecycle
• Incisive and efficient code-reviewer who can simultaneously improve code and effectively coach others
• Ability to create, introduce, and evangelize coding best practices and standards that elevate overall team code quality
• An advocate of code test coverage techniques and standards like TDD, unit testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, API testing, and others
• Familiarity with tooling that aids in standards enforcement, debugging, traceability, security, and performance

Leadership

• Strong sense of pride taken in the work delivered by themselves and their team
• Ability to communicate with internal and external team members under both technical and non-technical contexts
• An advocate of documentation. Internally, to formulate thoughts, plans, and designs and externally, to inform and persuade others.
• Team mentor who can identify areas for improvement in others and provide coaching to level up their team
• Avid learner and thought-leader within their team, translating new knowledge into action that improves the team and their products
• Focused on the productivity of their team by aiding in the project planning process, communicating dependencies with other teams, and introducing creative solutions for unblocking team members

Required Skills

• Golang
• React.JS
• MongoDB
• Android

... and here's a bit about what we have to offer!

• Full medical, dental and vision insurance
• Paid vacation, holiday & sick time
• RSU's
• Fast-growing company with opportunities to advance
• 401K with matching
• An opportunity to build products used by tens of millions of customers

SpotOn is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis as prohibited by federal, state or local law.
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