Senior Software Developer
About The Position
A Senior Software Developer is a team leadership role for smaller teams with responsibilities that encompass the entire product lifecycle, leadership of the team, and fiscal management, and software development. Senior Software Developers work closely with the Development team, Language Technology leadership, partners and supporting organizations, user communities, and leaders of field trials. A good Senior Software Developer is expected to be a customer spokesperson, product visionary, team champion, and a strategic leader. The goal of this role is to develop and manage roadmaps and sprint priorities via robust processes for collecting and synthesizing user needs. Their duties include meeting with clients to determine their software needs, coding and testing software to ensure functionality, and updating software programs to refine components like cybersecurity measures and data storage capacities.
Requirements
- A servant heart attitude
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Demonstrated skills in software development and algorithms
- Demonstrated passion for understanding and resolving complex user-needs into product priorities
- Demonstrated user interface design skills
- Demonstrated appreciation for quality user interface design
- Good interpersonal skills of communication
- Good organizational skills
- The ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase
- The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
- The ability to generate/analyze multiple solutions to a problem
- The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
- The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively
- Experience in software engineering
- A good understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Experience leading development teams
- 3 to 5 years’ experience leading teams is preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is preferred, but we care more for a heart and mind that are always learning.
Responsibilities
- Champion the team, partners, and user community to ensure alignment around overall strategy and direction of the product
- Discover what users need by conducting user research and unveiling critical insights
- Create the product’s long-term vision and strategy
- Align the team around a cohesive product roadmap
- Design, develop, and deploy software applications, new features, and defect fixes.
- Design and develop unit tests and perform code reviews
- Lead creation of targeted promotions: white papers, conference presentations, user videos
- Work with Director on yearly roadmap, budget, and funding proposals
- Work with Director and Language Technology Leadership to develop and grow partnerships
- Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership
- Lead performance reviews and goal discussions for your team
- Implement and Manage Agile software development methodology
- Analyze software requirements by consulting with the user community
- Support user community with developer-level support
- Write technical reference documentation for the new software
- Participate in regular project status, planning, partnership, and strategic meetings
- Report any hardware and software needs to Director
- Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
- Be available to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
- Participate in professional conferences and meetings
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
