Team Lead – Software Engineering

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas or take over sponsorship at this time.

About the role:

As a Developer Experience Team Lead, you will be developing functionality and managing a team of engineers that designs and implements technical solutions to solve everyday engineering problems.

You will collaborate with engineers across the company to understand the challenges they are facing and improvements that could be made in order to simplify the delivery of technical functionality across our diverse technology stack. Most problems have multiple solutions and we need your expertise to determine which solution is best and to drive it to completion. You will work with your team to get these solutions designed, developed, implemented and marketed across the company. 

You will be both hands-on in getting these solutions developed in addition to managing a team of senior engineers to deliver on these solutions.  Conducting recurring one on ones and providing performance feedback to your direct reports will be key to your success.

You’ll own and improve developer portals, a dynamic Kubernetes-based test suite and build out new platforms and tooling to improve the lives of engineers at Enova.

Our most successful Team Leads have strong soft skills, which makes them effective collaborators, communicators and mentors.  They also have strong technical skills to allow them to be effective in the design, development and implementation of technical solutions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in a full stack development role utilizing one or more object-oriented programming languages.
• The ability to solve problems in more than one language, and know exactly why one of them is better.
• Expertise with building software features, enterprise architecture, and API integration to facilitate first in class software.
• Project management skills, specifically the ability to oversee projects end-to-end, estimate work, and break up problems into deliverable parts.
• 1+ years of experience managing engineers and leading agile scrum teams. 
• The ability to provide ongoing mentoring and performance feedback to your direct reports.
• Passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing a team of engineers with diverse backgrounds and varying experience levels.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated tests and frameworks using open source tools and technologies and proven ability to scale those to multiple teams within engineering.
• Experience managing test infrastructure and strategy.
• Deployed multiple web applications from a full-stack perspective.
• Experience collaborating with product managers to plan and scope products iteratively. 
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Nice to haves:

• Prior experience in a Developer Experience (DevEx) team.
• Experience with Go, Ruby, or Javascript/Typescript.
• Experience with Kubernetes

Compensation:

The budgeted annual salary range for this position is$116,000 to $160,000. Actual annual salary will be determined based on qualifications, skills, experience, and level assessed during the hiring process and may fall outside of the range shown. Additional compensation for this role may include a bonus and restricted stock units. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in Company benefits, described in more detail here.