Lead Software Engineer

Job Description Summary The Technical Lead is responsible for the overall design, implementation and quality of the code the team produces across one or more projects. The Technical Lead partners with the IT leadership, architecture, and development staff to establish vision, strategy and road maps that align with business strategies and organizational priorities. The Technical Lead must collaborate with peers and leadership to leverage knowledge and solutions across the organization. At this time, we are not considering applicants who require employment authorization sponsorship (1) as a condition of eligibility for employment with the Company or (2) at any point during the term of their employment. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship by the Company. Organizational Relationships: The Technical Lead of Application Development is a position within a development group focused on building our core sales and CRM platform. The Technical Lead is accountable for daily status on tech design, development, and resource management. The Technical Lead works with: • Delivery leads to staff projects with associates, contractors, and/or third party teams, • Project managers on a plan and estimates, • Architecture and delivery leads on solution blueprints, • QA and delivery leads on functional testing, integration testing, performance testing and to triage defects • Service introduction on hand-off to application operations team Job Responsibilities: The Technical Lead of Application Development is a position within a development group focused on leading the delivery of best in class systems to support AutoNation’s business lines, across all channels. These include customer and associate facing applications built on AWS using Microservices Architecture and other AWS components that integrate with existing on-prem AutoNation systems and databases.. Qualifications: · 8+ years experience in java software development demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility · Experience leading a team of 3 or more software developers · Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience · Experience producing solution designs for large-scale, highly available, mission-critical systems. · Proficient in designing, creating and consuming Web Services (REST, JSON, OAuth), multi-tier or microservice applications in Java and large scale database applications · Strong experience in SQL and data modeling · Demonstrate sound architecture skills and broad experience designing applications. · Ability to communicate complex technical design concepts and translate into non-technical business solutions. · Able to communicate well with all levels in the organization, and must be comfortable as a primary contact to internal and external customers. · Excellent oral and written communication skills · Experience in Agile, Waterfall and other software development methodologies