Principal Engineering Lead

4 days ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Codal Full time
Job Overview

Codal is a leading web design and development consultancy that helps enterprise organizations solve complex problems and accelerate growth through elegant, data-driven digital solutions.

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Engineering Lead to join our team and lead our engineering efforts. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for guiding our engineers on enterprise technologies and solutions, facilitating client project scope discussions, and leveraging new and emerging technologies to fulfill project requirements and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Directly report to and collaborate closely with the Managing Director of Engineering and Product Development
  • Guide engineers on enterprise technologies and solutions
  • Facilitate and lead client project scope discussions with the ability to understand and articulate the business impact of proposed solutions
  • Leverage new and emerging technologies to fulfill project requirements and business objectives
  • Map project requirements to technical tasks for the engineering team
  • Write and review software code
  • Write client-readable technical architecture documentation
  • Enforce development best practices with the engineering team – proper code branching, code reviews, unit tests, and environment setup
  • Lead all phases of software development including design, development, testing, and support
Requirements
  • Seven (7)+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more of the following languages/frameworks: React/Angular, Python/Django
  • Experience managing a team of software engineers at all levels
  • Hands-on development and deployment experience in AWS or Azure using serverless functions or EC2
  • Experience with RESTful & GraphQL APIs
  • DB experience with relational or noSQL such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, MongoDB, Redis
  • Familiarity with cloud-based logging, monitoring, and security tools
Preferred Experience
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures
  • Familiarity with dev tools such as GitHub, Jira, CFT, Terraform
About Codal

Codal is a global agency with over 200 employees, and offices in the US, UK, and India. We offer a range of benefits, including medical, life, dental/vision insurance, and a 401k match. We also have a recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball, and an office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.



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