Lead Software Engineer

Overview:
At Nortal, our vision is to create a world where technology enables progress and enhances people's lives. We strive to make a meaningful impact through our innovative solutions in various fields, including digitizing governments, improving healthcare, and providing convenient telecom services. Our focus is on creating a competitive edge and agility for large businesses, industries, and manufacturing companies. Our past projects have positively impacted more than half a billion people worldwide, and we are committed to continuing this trend. While our experience in transforming Estonia into a digital leader is unique, our goal remains the same: to build a better tomorrow through technology.

To reach our ambitious goals, we are looking for **Lead Software Developer.**

As a Lead Software Developer, you are at the top of the Nortal technical spectrum in multiple technologies. At this level, you have grown your skills and experience into multiple development languages, frameworks, and toolsets and should be able to articulate this experience to other Software Development Engineers. This role is competent in all aspects of an Agile-based SDLC, processes and protocols for delivery of repeatable software delivery. Role of Lead Software Developer is among Nortal’s thought leaders and is expected to be able to speak to emerging technologies and technology-oriented processes both internally and externally. The ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with customers in-person is essential for success in this position.

**Responsibilities**:

- May supervise and train lower-level Software Engineers.
- Lead effort on multiple feature implementations in a project.
- Produce high-quality code with unit and functional tests to prove functionality.
- Ensures code, design, architecture quality practices are being met and mentor other developers on these best practices.
- Analyze and understand flows and end-to-end interactions for a distributed system.
- Enhances system architecture to improve continuous software integration and deployment model within a DevOps environment.
- Articulate the Agile principles and their meanings to new team members and can run stand ups as needed.
- Provide task definition and design/architecture direction for other engineers.
- Run an agile Scrum or Kanban process for a team when needed.
- Creates documentation that conveys technical concepts and approaches to technical stakeholders.
- Monitor performance of Software Engineers on the team, and partner with management on mentoring and growth.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Proficient knowledge of **Node.js, JavaScript **and** TypeScript**.
- Knowledge of Java is nice-to-have but not required.
- Experience with containers i.e., Docker and at least one cloud platform i.e., AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure cloud platforms (or similar).
- Experience with CI/CD processes.
- Can articulate the Agile principles and their meanings i.e. opinion around different agile practices such as Kanban and Scrum.
- Understands and implements caching and search patterns for data, and performance testing practices.
- Has the ability to influence projects and is comfortable working directly with client including presenting project status and concerns to the client.
- Comfortable making technical decisions including presenting ideas and providing constructive feedback to teammates.

We like to say that Nortal is a right-sized company - big enough to undertake and impact influential projects yet small enough to care. At Nortal, your voice is heard, and everyone’s input matters. You solve critical problems for interesting customers from different domains. You work with experienced colleagues in a warm environment. You can execute your ideas in a reasonable time frame. And what you do and learn here are universally relevant and valuable. Last, but not least, Nortal is an agile company with low hierarchy - meaning heavy on common sense, light on rules, and substance is more important than titles