Lead Application Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Lead Application Engineer with a passion for architecting and developing solutions. You will be responsible for the technical leadership and the architecture of our application platform. This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new Engineering team. As the Lead Application Engineer you will collaborate with WayWiser's CTO, Executive Team, and Product Team to create and support the vision for our products.

Skills needed:

• 5 to 7 years as a Lead Engineer, hiring, leading, running a full-stack Engineering team for a consumer facing product (app, web, services).
• 10+ years overall engineering experience.
• Understand the architectural difference between solution approaches and communicate the advantages/disadvantages of your recommendation to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• AWS infrastructure and architecture.
• MongoDB, relational database, and other data platforms.
• Mid-tier frameworks such as NestJS/Node.js.
• ReactNative and React frameworks.
• DevOps and automated CI/CD processes and platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with start-up or scale-up organizations.
• Experience developing, releasing, and managing B2C

Role and responsibilities:

• Owning and defining application architecture and leading Engineering team.
• Ensure application architecture and platform align to scalability, responsiveness, and resiliency goals.
• Develop and implement best-practices for software Engineering, DevOps and quality, and ensure implementation across Engineering teams.
• Create the technical roadmap to align with business and product strategies.
• Collaborate with the product team to ensure priorities within product features.
• Lead technical discussions with product owners and business leaders.
• Create an Engineering team culture that fosters learning and consistent, predictable delivery.
• Work with the product team and others to define technical approaches and alternatives on concepts in design.
• Hire and lead a high-performing Engineering team.
• Determine goals, KPIs, and metrics for Engineering and collaborate with outsourced Engineering partner as we build our in-house team.
• Mentoring, coaching and personnel management of Engineers.
• Hands-on development of product features and the architecture to support them.
• Perform code reviews to ensure code quality and provide coaching/feedback to Engineering team members.

Candidate Qualities:

• Has experience with React Native, EXPO, React, NodeJS, MongoDB