Team Lead - Software Development - Production Support
About The Position
biBerk is building a cloud-first, API driven, dynamic insurance platform that enables customers to purchase insurance policies directly online. Expanding our team, we are adding experienced software innovators to enhance our development efforts. This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills. Developers in this position will lead an existing cross-functional team of experienced software developers, business analysts, and quality assurance engineers that are responsible for providing day-to-day support of biBerk solutions. This is a hybrid remote role that requires onsite presence in Pittston, PA at least once every other month. Candidates must live within a reasonable driving distance of either the Pittston, PA or Omaha, NE BHDIC office for required onsite meetings as needed in whichever BHDIC office is local to the employee.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science/related field or equivalent working experience
- 10+ years of experience as a software developer, primarily using C#
- 3+ years of experience leading development teams, including software developers, business analysts, and quality assurance engineers
- Excellent programming, debugging, and troubleshooting skills with C# and .NET
- Enterprise level system architecture experience, designing and delivering RESTful APIs, integrations, and complex business processes
- Enterprise level design and configuration of cloud services including serverless, data storage, messaging, logging, etc., preferably with Azure
- Experience with design and implementation of both monolithic and microservice architectures
- Experience designing reliable and performant data storage solutions and schemas utilizing cloud technologies including SQL DBs, Document DBs, and unstructured data
- Experience with creating CI/CD pipelines supporting Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, collaboration capabilities, and attention to detail
- Experience working on large software development projects while collaborating across multiple agile teams
Nice To Haves
- Understands how to effectively use AI tools to research code design and to root cause novel issues
- Commercial Property and Casualty insurance experience
- Practical working knowledge of ASP.NET MVC, and .NET Core
- Experience with TypeScript and SPA frameworks (Angular, React, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the day-to-day activities of Production Support team members; assist team with roadblocks; and lead planning sessions
- Ensure the effective prioritization of issues reported, with a consistent focus on the most impactful items
- Ensure that support issues are assigned to domain experts on other teams for action in cases where the issue was recently introduced by another sprint team
- Ensure that domain experts on other teams collaborate with Production Support team members when it is determined that domain expertise is needed to resolve an issue
- Guide the team regarding unit testing; collaborate closely with QA leadership to guarantee successful functional and regression testing of all features
- Perform root cause analysis for impactful issues introduced to the production environment, including action required to prevent recurrence
- Provide input to sprint teams and the organization that’s designed to address quality issues and reduce recurring support issues.
- Collaborate with senior members of the team to drive the creation of processes and tools needed to detect issues before they’re deployed to the production environment
- Expand domain knowledge and serve as an individual contributor over time as subject matter expertise is developed
- Provide guidance and mentoring including pair programming, code reviews, and demos
- Participate in staffing decisions, including interviews and hiring
- Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals
- Lead the dev team to think with a security first mindset
- Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
- Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
Benefits
- Great work environment with growth opportunity
- Subsidized downtown parking (for in-office positions)
- Competitive compensation
- Generous amounts of vacation and sick time
- Closed on major holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- A fantastic healthcare package
- Tuition reimbursement after 6 months of employment
- Service recognition after 5 years of employment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
