Lead Software Engineer

Relativity; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to oversee the development and technical direction of their Legal Hold product. The role involves guiding an Agile team, ensuring best practices, and collaborating on system architecture while striving for high-quality, scalable solutions in a cloud environment. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in C# and web development.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience using C# and related programming languages.
• 5+ years of web development experience using JavaScript.
• Experience leading an Agile team and mentoring members.

Responsibilities

• Guide a software Agile team and manage scrum boards.
• Lead software design and implementation using best practices.
• Ensure best practices of Test-Driven Design and Continuous Integration.

Skills

C#

Microsoft SQL Server

JavaScript

Elasticsearch

dtSearch

Job description

Posting Type

Remote

Job Overview

The Lead Software Engineer develops software and guides a team to apply software engineering best practices to provide high-quality, maintainable, reusable, performant, and scalable software.

You will be a technical liaison between your team and other development teams to resolve dependencies, improve and apply software engineering best practices and processes, and find and address risks to the delivery of software.

Our team owns the Relativity Legal Hold product. Legal Hold is a critical application that enables organizations to preserve data and manage custodians during litigation and investigations. The Lead Engineer will guide the technical direction of the product, overseeing features such as hold notice creation, custodian communication workflows, compliance tracking, and integration with other RelativityOne applications and services.

This role will report to the Manager of Software Engineering.

Job Description and Requirements

Job Responsibilities

• Guide a software Agile team, managing their scrum boards and projects.

• Lead the design of software using abstraction, low coupling, high cohesion, modularization, encapsulation, information hiding, interfaces, and separation of concerns

• Analyze and estimate non-functional software requirements

• Contribute to system software architecture development and future projects by working with Staff, Principal Engineers, and Architects

• Lead the implementation of software using the practical application of algorithms, defensive programming, exception handling, fault tolerance, design patterns, and best practices of Object-Oriented Design and Programming such as SOLID

• Ensure best practices of Test-Driven Design and the use of autonomous frameworks and Continuous Integration

• Work with management to mentor team members and guide development growth

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software development using C# and Microsoft SQL Server, or related object-oriented programming languages

• 5+ years of experience in web development using JavaScript

• Experience with Elasticsearch and dtSearch technologies.

• Experience leading an Agile software team, including mentoring and project leadership

• Experience developing highly scalable solutions in Azure or other cloud platforms

• Experience in CI/CD

• Understanding of DevOps principals

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:

$150,000 and $224,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.