Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer Job Posting
| Job Title: | Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer |
| Company: | Tacit Knowledge |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | - |
| Skills: | Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer |
| Date Posted: | Oct-27-09 |
About Us:
Tacit Knowledge is a consulting firm that specializes in software development, system stabilization and Agile coaching. We understand what it takes to retain talented, experienced people so we:
- Work with clients near our offices in San Francisco, Manhattan and London to minimize travel
- Expose our team to a wide range of business problems, clients, and technologies
- Offer a competitive base salary, full benefits and a progressive profit sharing plan
If you love to learn and want to work with smart, fun people on interesting problems, please apply.
About the Job:
- Listen, learn and consult. This is a client facing services role where you will interact directly and frequently with outside business and technical stakeholders
- Act as the primary technical point of contact, taking personal responsibility for project success
- Set the technical direction of projects, arbitrating major technical decisions
- Have technical issues escalate to you because team members genuinely want and respect your opinion – not because it’s their job to ask for it
- Lead and mentor highly talented and motivated software engineers to become even better
- Think long term. Prioritize. Write Code. Review code. Stabilize. Deploy. Streamline. Optimize.
- Ensure projects are realistic, interesting and fun - for everyone involved
Requirements:
- 7+ years building, shipping and maintaining mission critical business systems
- 3+ years leading a team of at least 3 other full time engineers
- Extensive coding experience in a static language, preferably Java. Fluency in at least one dynamic language like Ruby or Perl
- Familiarity with Agile software development methodology (Scrum and/or XP). Experience taking proactive action to improve project velocity and code reliability
- A track record of mentoring software engineers: your bliss is helping other people get better
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired:
- Experience working as a professional consultant. Bonus points if you’ve been the primary point of contact with clients.
- Experience working as a manager or director in a software engineering organization (provided you still sling code)
- Experience working as the architect of a large software engineering effort
- Experience collaborating with remote/offshore development teams
- Deep technical expertise in at least one of the following: networks, systems, database optimization or application frameworks
- BS in Computer Science. We won’t hold a Masters or a PHD against you
- Experience building large ecommerce systems or other high availability web-based applications
- Polished presentation skills
How to Apply:
- Write a cover letter. Applications without cover letters will not be considered. We need people who can write code and English. Please discuss why this job sounds like a good fit for you.
- You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. We will not sponsor visas, nor will we hire consultants through sub-contractors that hold your visa.
| Location: | US-NY-New York |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
| Contact Name: | Human Resources |
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