Lead Software Engineer

Relativity; Illinois; Remote; USD 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading software company as a Lead Software Engineer, where you'll guide software development practices and lead a dynamic team within the Legal Hold product team. This remote position offers competitive compensation, fostering growth through mentorship and leadership in architectural design and software strategy.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development, specifically using C# and SQL Server.
• 5+ years in web development utilizing JavaScript.
• Experience in leading Agile software teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide an Agile software team, managing their scrum boards and projects.
• Lead software design with best practices of Object-Oriented Design.
• Mentor team members to foster development growth.

Skills

C#

JavaScript

SQL Server

Agile methodology

DevOps principles

CI/CD

Elasticsearch

dtSearch

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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.

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 Responsibilities

Job Description and Requirements

• 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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