Platform Development Lead

Fox•Home Office, CA

17d•$170,000 - $200,000

About The Position

The Platform Development Lead role offers compelling technical challenges to build and enhance backend services delivering business capabilities to frontend teams across web, mobile, and connectedTV and an opportunity to lead a newly defined and talented team. This role will influence strategic engineering direction as we take Locals News to exciting spaces. As the team lead, you are responsible for the platform development squad. You will support your team members, provide them with opportunities to develop their career, and write code alongside them. You are an expert problem solver and he go-to person to address roadblocks, conflicts, and miscommunication. You will maintain engineering quality, track team productivity, and control the pace of software development to meet business goals. You will understand in great detail how FTS systems work and interact with other internal systems at FOX and develop solutions with your team to help FTS meet its digital business goals.

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

Nice To Haves

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

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 leadershi
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.