Lead Software Engineer
Posted on 1/28/2023
INACTIVE
Tegus

501-1,000 employees

Comprehensive intelligence platform for institutional decision-making
Company Overview
Tegus stands out as a leading intelligence platform, providing unparalleled insights to institutional investors, corporations, and consultancies through its extensive database of primary and market information. The company's culture fosters creativity and passion, encouraging employees to contribute to the development of a category-defining product. Additionally, Tegus prioritizes user privacy and personalization, offering customizable website experiences and effective advertising, while maintaining a strong commitment to transparency and data security.
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$111.5M

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-4%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

62%
Locations
Chicago, IL, USA • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Python
Software Testing
Git
Word/Pages/Docs
REST APIs
Django
CategoriesNew
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • A proven history of delivering high quality production code yourself
  • Experience managing a small team of engineers, with a passion for developing and growing people as they progress on their career journey
Responsibilities
  • Regular one-on-ones. With each member of your approximately 5-person team
  • Manage project to-do lists and priorities. Utilize GitLab, Coda, Google Docs and other tools
  • Coach, mentor, and teach members of your team. Contribute to growing their skills and capabilities. This ranges from professional development planning, all the way to helping with immediate issues and performing code reviews
  • Develop and deploy code in support of the larger initiatives that your team owns. The team's primary project has 100% unit test coverage and is supported by a robust suite of static code checking tools (tests and static checkers both run in our continuous integration and deployment system before merging or deploying)
  • Participate in design and definition discussions, and in documentation. Through regular collaboration with your Product Management and Design counterparts about requirements, projects, scoping and estimation
  • Keep quality standards high. Ensure steady progress on the roadmap to reach acceptance by Product Management and Design
  • Cross Collaboration. Communicate with other parts of the company about Engineering initiatives and goals. Sometimes this might mean coordinating demos, meetings, or Slack threads. Engineering should not be a black box and we need our leaders to guide by example and build interpersonal bridges throughout the company
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building RESTful APIs is a
  • Proficiency with Python, Django and Django REST Framework is a plus but not required