Posted 2 days ago

Lead Software Engineer

St. PetersburgRemoteFull-time

AI Summary

Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience leading development teams through the full software development life cycle, from design and coding to testing and DevOps.

About this role

Join a National Top Workplace

Named a Top Workplace in the USA and Top Remote Workplace, Kobie is where the best minds in loyalty come together, driven by passion and innovation. We’re always looking for talented individuals who are ready to join a collaborative, growth-focused culture. As a partner to some of the world’s most recognized brands, we are leaders in loyalty, helping brands build lasting emotional connections with their consumers.

Join Us from Anywhere

While our headquarters are nestled in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie embraces a flexible work environment, offering teammates the freedom to work remotely. We understand the importance of work-life balance and support our team with:

·Flexible Time Off to recharge when needed

·Nine Company-Wide Holidays

·A diverse suite of benefits prioritizing your growth, development, and personal well-being

Discover more about our perks and benefits here .

Kobie is a values-led organization where we believe that everyone is a leader, regardless of their position or role.

Travel Requirements:
As a remote-first organization headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie values meaningful in-person connection and collaboration that strengthens our teams, supports our clients, and enhances our culture. While travel requirements vary by role, periodic travel may be required to support business objectives, team collaboration, customer engagements, training, and company events. Candidates should be able and willing to travel as needed to fulfill the responsibilities of the role.

About the team and what we will build together

You are a Lead Software Engineer with 8+ years experience in the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, automated build processes, testing, peer review, and DevOps. You are a critical thinker with experience prioritizing and negotiating several competing efforts and maintaining productivity through numerous context changes. You have led development teams and know how to define and commit to a body of work in which you ensure the successful delivery by breaking it down into consumable parts and collaborating with key team members. An attribute you excel at is the ability to drive out ambiguity in the technology solutions we build in order to bring value to our customers.

How you will make an impact

Gain the respect of your team and coach engineers at multiple levels to apply best practices when solutioning work items for our products.

Support and lead all phases of the Agile methodology (grooming, designing, coding, testing)

Focus on outcomes as opposed to output and ensure timely delivery of high quality, flexible and maintainable solutions.

Participate in design sessions; work with product owners to ensure your solutions meet the needs of the business and our customers.

Assist other team members with questions and provide guidance and mentorship on best practices and new technology adoption.

Promote and demonstrate good coding practice and patterns for the team

Establish and reinforce standards in the areas of coding, design, security, automation, and testing.

Create and maintain a highly engaging and respectful work environment that encourages learning and the advancement of our people, process, and tooling.

What you need to be successful

Experience leading development teams who are responsible for the successful delivery of prioritized roadmap items

Experience designing and developing applications and components using J2EE technologies, SOA architecture, with sound knowledge in front end technologies to deliver vertical slices of value

Deep experience with service-oriented architecture and API development within a containerized deployment environment

Experience with distributed computing and object-oriented design and analysis

Strong relational database skills using PostgreSQL / Oracle

Strong knowledge of Enterprise Messaging/Integration Patterns

Experience in developing XML / JSON based web-services

Experience in Java technologies: JMS, MDB, JPA (Hibernate)

Familiarity with key Java frameworks and libraries such as Spring (Boot, MVC, Security, Data), Hibernate/JPA, and relevant testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)

Experience with high-volume, real-time applications

In depth experience with Agile (e.g., Scrum Process)

Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ

Java, Bamboo/GIT, Open source components and frameworks

Experience with Test Driven Development and BDD

Nice to Have:

Experience with Spring frameworks (Core, Boot, Batch, Data, REST)

Extensive experience in Microservices Architecture, GraphQL

Build Management tools (GitHub Actions, Hudson)

Familiarity and experience with AI/ML driven tooling

AWS, EKS, Karpenter, ArgoCD

Skills

AgileApache ActiveMQApache CamelArgoCDAWSBambooBDDEKSGitGitHub ActionsGraphQLHibernateJ2EEJavaJMSJPAJSONJUnitKarpenterMDBMicroservicesMockitoOraclePostgreSQLSCRUMSOASpring BootSpring DataSpring MVCSpring SecurityTest Driven DevelopmentWeb ServicesXML