Technical Lead

Job Description

As a Software Engineering Technical Lead at HireVue, you’ll report to one of our Engineering Directors and be responsible for leading technical initiatives from inception to the hands of our users. You will be empowered to drive continuous improvement and constantly evaluate the return on investment on every decision we make when building our products. 

You’ll be in a hands-on development and technical lead role collaborating with our cross functional teams to help continue building the leading HireVue platform. Your focus will be architecting solutions, writing quality code, leading other engineers by example and solving technical challenges that will continue improving the experience of our users. You will become a key contributor to the codebase willing to work in any area of the code when needed. 

“Interviewing” is the foundation of our business. As the inventors of Digital Interviewing, HireVue sets the bar on what that term means. As Technical Lead in our Interviewing product line, you will be critical to the success of our current and future offerings in this realm. The technology stack is unique, fascinating, and evolved with complexity that will challenge you. Driving solid technology choices for this team that make the complex simple will be the goal of your work.

Our ability to deliver quality software to our customers in a timely, predictable manner will be directly attributable to your capacity to identify and address challenges faced by the initiatives you will be leading.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the HireVue platforms ensuring that we’re utilizing the best development techniques, architectural patterns, frameworks and libraries for those initiatives

• Own and ensure the resolution of complex problems found in our systems and integrations through smart communication and collaboration within and between technical teams

• Find opportunities to broadcast knowledge and lessons learned across delivery teams

• Delegate to teammates and work with them to ensure they’re successful

• Identify technical debt buydown opportunities and work with the product line leadership team to prioritize these activities

• Ensure patterns are in place to provide thorough automated testing with tests at each level of the test pyramid

• Communicate patterns and solutions through both thorough written documentation and technical presentations

Qualifications

We’re looking for an experienced, full-stack engineer. More specifically, we’re looking for:

• Someone with experience designing, building, deploying, supporting SaaS products. You should have familiarity with cloud development, Test Driven Development (TDD), RESTFul APIs, XSS attacks, and MVC web frameworks. 

• Someone who understands fundamental computer science concepts. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have a CS degree. You should be able to describe technical design options, engineering trade offs, making technical recommendations and decisions. 

• Someone with a firm grasp of SQL and databases in general (including non-relational databases). You should know how to do CRUD operations, what indexes are and why they matter, and the difference between a left join and an inner join for instance.

• Someone to work hand in hand with Product and UX, to design solutions that deliver business value and delight customers. 

Required Qualifications:

• Due to responsibilities of this role that require elevated access to production data, the successful candidate for this position must be a US-based US citizen.

• B.S. in Computer Science (or related field), equivalent trade school degree, or equivalent work experience.

• 8+ years in a software engineering role, 12+ years preferred

• Highly proficient with languages and technologies listed below

• Experience working effectively in global virtual environment 

• Ability to design scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud architectures.

• Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker)

• Understanding of security best practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS and Cloud certifications

• Prior Technical Lead Experience

• Project Management Experience

Technologies:

HireVue has several platforms providing services to our customers, with a broad range of technologies in use: 

• HTML, CSS, Node.js, TypeScript, React, REST
• Git, Python, Django, Celery, WebRTC, .NET, C#
• Postgres, Aurora, SQL Server, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, Open Search
• Splunk, Docker, AWS Lambda, Fargate, SQS, Twilio Voice, Vonage