Lead Software Engineer

Relativity; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to develop and guide a software team. This role will involve designing software systems, leading technical direction, and applying best practices to ensure high-quality software delivery. The candidate will play a vital role in the Relativity Legal Hold product, a critical application for data preservation and management during investigations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software development using C#.
• 5+ years of experience in web development using JavaScript.
• Experience leading an Agile software team, including mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Guide a software Agile team while managing scrum boards.
• Lead software design using principles like modularization and encapsulation.
• Ensure best practices of Test-Driven Design and Continuous Integration.

Skills

Software Development

C#

JavaScript

Agile Leadership

Cloud Solutions

DevOps

Database Management

Software Architecture

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.