Platform Development Lead

Platform Development Lead

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Golang programming language, including knowledge of Goroutines, channels, and error handling
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Kubernetes
• Comfortable with developer tools including Postman, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Datadog
• In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design principles and practices
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills
• Professional experience leading development teams
• Detail-oriented and strong work ethic
• Clear and thoughtful communication
• Thrive on collaboration

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with platform developers, frontend development teams, QA, product managers, and delivery managers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the FTS backend services with the highest quality standards
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the platform team by establishing best practices and habits
• Proactively pursue sources of requirements to document technical details and dependencies to tee up work for the team
• Advocate for solutions that take quality, app performance, backwards compatibility, tech debt and development resources into strict consideration
• Document design specifications in Confluence including diagrams where needed to adequately convert the full scope of the solution design
• Create mock responses in Postman to allow front-end teams to work on features in parallel with backend development of services
• Maintain the health and fidelity of the FTS backend services by advocating for and executing code improvements and paying off technical debt
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through peer review, coaching and mentorship
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software
• Design, develop, and unit test backend services in accordance with established standards and industry best practices
• Package and support deployment of builds and releases
• Assess opportunities for software and process improvements and prepare documentation to share with team members and other affected parties
• Actively participate and prepare for sprint ceremonies, quarterly planning, meetings, discussions, and work sessions with both the development team and engineering leadership
• Work closely with delivery managers, QA, product managers, and Fox Technology teams to manage the delivery of technical solutions from requirements analysis through design and delivery
• Take responsibility for ensuring that technical risks and issues are identified and managed closely
• Address team issues quickly and directly, particularly when it comes to personnel or non-engineering related issues
• Work with the Director of Engineering in enabling an effective and efficient software engineering operation
• Other duties as deemed necessary and appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an eagerness to learn new things
• Experience working within a mixed engineering organizations including local, remote, and vendor resources
• Experience using agile methodologies for software development
• Competency in Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure
• Solid working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed computing, and microservices
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation