Title:  Remote Software Engineer, Lead

About Us

Founded in 1973, O’Neil Digital Solutions (ODS) is a leading IT consulting firm specializing in the optimization of complex end-to-end business process systems for a multitude of business verticals including Financial Services, Digital Media, Healthcare, and Transportation industries. ODS provides high-touch bespoke software engineering, systems integration, and infrastructure management services to clients of all sizes and industries. From large scale mass communication projects to highly secure and confidential data analytics using Big Data frameworks like Hadoop and AWS Redshift, ODS has a broad set of proven technical capabilities that help companies make complex digital transformations. ODS offers state of the art publishing solutions through our customer-centric applications and services include electronic document delivery, web applications, high-speed digital printing (color and black & white), automated composition, offset printing, warehousing and fulfillment services. ODS is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA and also has offices/plants in Texas and North Carolina centrally located to serve clients across the country

Summary

The Lead Software Engineer will collaborate with the Software Engineering team to design, develop, enhance, and maintain software applications. This role involves contributing to moderately complex aspects of projects, with work that is generally independent and collaborative.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of full stack applications using the Agile/Scrum development process.
• Collaborate with client services teams, business development, and other departments to define and understand business and technical requirements.
• Estimate the effort required for proposed projects with both clear and ambiguous requirements.
• Prioritize work for self and assist in guiding others to meet milestones and delivery deadlines.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing
• Participate in architectural decisions and code reviews
• Uphold coding standards, testing, and security practices

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field required.
• 7+ years of experience in full stack technology development and maintenance (Python, Java, JavaScript, React.js, SQL, Elastic Search).
• Demonstrated knowledge of performance tuning and code optimization concepts.
• Experience in delivering multiple medium-sized projects or at least one large project from inception to deployment through the full software development lifecycle.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAS)

• Frontend/ UI Development Experience: hands-on experience in UI or frontend development, with strong proficiency in JavaScript, Node.js, React.js, Redux.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Debugging & Problem Solving: Strong troubleshooting skills, particularly with the DOM and browser behavior.
• API Development: Design and implement robust, secure, and scalable RESTful APIs with proficiency in FastAPI, Java/Tomcat
• Agile & Sprint Execution: Proven ability to take ownership of sprint tasks and effectively contribute to team velocity. Comfortable using Git, Jira, and Confluence, in a collaborative development environment.
• Database Knowledge: Understanding of databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search, Redis
• Experience with microservices or service-oriented architectures (SOA)
• Familiarity with asynchronous processing and message queues (e.g., ActiveMQ, Kafka)
• Comfortable working in Windows and Ubuntu/Linux environments
• Take personal responsibility for productivity, quality, and timeliness of work
• Challenge conventional practices and utilize creativity and information to contribute to innovative solutions and organizational growth.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Working Conditions

Must be able to perform the essential job duties.  Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each work day), ability to hear the telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may also require the ability to lift up to 10 pounds.  
 

Equal Opportunity Employer

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The information in this position description indicates the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not designed to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.  Management reserves the right to revise the job description or require that other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change (for example, emergencies, change in personnel, workload, or technical development).  This does not alter the nature of the at-will employment between the employer and employee where either party can end the relationship at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice.