Lead Software Engineer

Job Description:

Overview:

Knowledge Services is seeking contract to hire candidates for a Lead Software Engineer role. The Software Engineer will be a driver in development and delivery of features for multiple critical Hearst web and mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have a passion for developing high-quality, maintainable code, with experience in managing multiple projects.

Responsibilities:

Jumping into technology stack and start producing code and designs with a direct impact on the direction of the product, site, team and organization while providing real value to the end-user; contributing to the entire technology stack from front-end to mobile and back-end services, and single-site web applications; continuously improving the performance of websites and services including all mobile applications and sites; identify and troubleshoot web site outages; understand of the SDLC to manage new and existing products in our portfolio; and ability to identify and troubleshoot web site outages.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS/MS or relevant experience preferably in the digital/online media or tech industry;
• 3-5 years of web and mobile application development experience; strong knowledge of AWS  a passion for modern front-end technologies: responsive grids,
• HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON; in-depth understanding of the LAMP stack, including command- line, configuring, and troubleshooting; experience building and maintaining back-end framework-oriented sites built with PHP, Laravel, Composer, Twig, Blade, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, MySQL
• ; integrations with APIs and social networks; and, scaling out using cloud hosting such as Amazon EC2, S3, CDNs, and caching layers. Ability to work well with others to maintain documentation and architectural overview, and excellent communication skills.

Key Skills:

• Analysis.
• Software Design.
• Software Documentation.
• Software Testing.