Senior Lead Software Engineer

At NAVEX, we're making the world a better place. A safer place. A more ethical place. A place where anyone, anywhere can have a voice. That's a serious impact.

At NAVEX you will join our Product Engineering team that shares a passion for designing quality solutions, embracing new technologies and delivering powerful products that help our customers protect their reputation and bottom line.

As our Senior Lead Software Engineer, you will provide technical guidance and oversight. In this role, you will have ample opportunity to explore new value-added product features, invest in product development and tool research, technically lead and mentor a software development team, and grow your career, all while balancing your life priorities.

At NAVEX, you will work in a hybrid role and thrive alongside an engaged and collaborative team invested in supporting your success!

What you'll get:

• Career growth. With market-leading training and an unwavering commitment to owning your career plan, you can grow your career to new heights.
• Real rewards. We offer competitive and transparent pay practices, top-of-the-range wellbeing programs, and brilliant opt-in benefits. Because we believe companies should offer more than just a salary.
• Meaningful purpose. Our products and solutions have real-life impact on people and organizations across the globe. Our innovations make a difference.
• Life flexibility. We want you to bring your best self to work every day. We understand that you can only do that with quality time to care for yourself, your loved ones and your community.
• An inspiring culture. Find yourself surrounded by leaders that care, invested teammates, and like-minded groups where you'll feel at home.
• Industry leadership. Play your part in a fast-growing organization known for excellence, profitability, and stability.

What you'll do:

• Lead a team of software engineers while also being an individual contributor to keep your development skills sharp
• Help team members grow through mentoring, coaching, 1:1s, career planning, performance appraisals, etc.
• Oversee the design and development of product features and modernize technical debt
• Promote opportunities for refactoring by examining patterns of system usage and identifying areas of optimization
• Provide technical oversight for feature development, ensuring appropriate test coverage, and reviewing and approving pull requests
• Remove roadblocks and/or bottlenecks for the team and resolve questions in real time
• Participate in sprint planning for work that will be coming into future sprints and work with the team to help drive sprints to completion
• Participate in elaboration and design sessions with other engineers, architects and product managers, providing constructive and honest feedback during sprint retrospectives for continuous improvement. You will need to understand business requirements and translate business needs into technology solutions
• Take advantage of extensive use of automation, including continuous integration, automated deployments, automated unit and functional testing

What you'll need:

• 6+ years of software development experience and 2+ years people management, leadership or mentorship experience
• Experience working in a web-based or multi-tier system desired
• Experience with object-oriented programming concepts such as design patterns, encapsulation and inheritance as well as database design and software architecture
• Strong knowledge of Agile software development best practices, unit testing, continuous integration, etc.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting applications with IDE, SQL profiler, Chrome developer tools, etc.
• A self-motivated individual with the ability to learn and come up to speed on new technologies quickly
• Experience with the following technologies:
  
  
  
  
  • Python and SQL; PostgreSQL and Aurora a plus
  • Data manipulation and analysis tools, such as Pandas and NumPy
  • Cloud-based database and analytics platforms, such as Snowflake or Databricks
  • Containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Airflow)
  • Bonus: experience with machine learning, prompts and AI agents
  
  
  
  
• Knowledge of GitHub best practices for team development involving feature branches, pull requests, release tags, etc.
• Strong time management, problem solving and critical thinking skills with the ability to identify and influence others on the best solution
• Ability to drive results through your job competencies of software program management, systems thinking, and technical knowledge while leveraging NAVEX's core values

Our side of the deal:

• We believe everyone deserves to see their path forward, and the steps in place to achieve their career and financial goals.
• Every team member is required to have a career plan in place, to be reviewed with their manager after six months in our team.
• The starting pay rate for this role is $130,000 per annum with 5% MBO.
• Pay progression based on your performance.

We're committed to helping you thrive in all aspects of your life. Our pay programs are just one element of this. Check out NAVEX's career page to find out more information.

We're an equal opportunity employer, including all disability and veteran status.