Lead Software Engineer

CubeSmart; Malvern (AR); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CubeSmart is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive technical delivery of the enterprise store operating platform from the Malvern, PA office. You will lead a high-performance team, set technical direction, and collaborate with hosting, infrastructure, and product teams in a hybrid environment (2 days remote, 3 days in office).

The role emphasizes agile leadership, secure and scalable software development, and modernization using open source and cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
• 10+ years building, leading and supporting omni-channel commerce platforms.
• Experience leading development teams, roadmaps, and standards.
• DevOps experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, C# .NET, Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Rust.
• Strong RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-native design (AWS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and testing strategies (TDD/BDD).
• Familiarity with databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical delivery of the application stack from requirements to production.
• Lead sprint planning, write stories, and guide the team to commit to timelines.
• Define development tooling strategy and CI/CD toolchains.
• Mentor engineers, enforce best practices, and drive a product-focused mindset.
• Maintain high availability and respond to incidents out of hours as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align on goals and roadmaps.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

C# .NET

Python

Java

JavaScript

NodeJS

Rust

REST APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

AWS

Messaging (RabbitMQ/Kafka)

Caching (Redis)

Observability/Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Oracle

SQL Server

DB2

Job description

Overview

This is a hybrid role - 2 days remote and 3 days in the Malvern, PA office.

CubeSmart is currently seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Information Technology team at our corporate office in Malvern, PA. The Lead Software Engineer will be responsible for the technical innovation and leadership of CubeSmart’s enterprise store operating platform.

Who We Are

At CubeSmart, we’re intentional about culture. You can experience it everywhere from our mission statement of “genuine care” to our “It’s What’s Inside That Counts” tagline to calling each other “teammates” rather than employees. This spirit fosters a fun and collaborative environment that has resulted in our rapid growth and being recognized amongst the top in our industry.

CubeSmart’s award-winning team is made up of people who genuinely care. Teammates care about our customers and the life events and/or business needs they are facing. Teammates are passionate, responsible and understanding. The CubeSmart team is made up of people who have a can-do attitude, are committed to their own success and the success of the company, and lead by example.

If this sounds like a team and culture that matches your personal values and motivations, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Working in collaboration with the hosting and infrastructure teams, this role will own the technical delivery of the application, from requirements to successful delivery into production and then managing and enhancing it to ensure a seamless customer, team member and partner experience.

This Teammate will adopt an agile yet stable and secure approach to development leveraging core engineering principles and develop a culture of high performance, urgency, and productivity.

The Lead Software Engineer is expected to have proven experience in building and delivering highly complex platform and strong technical background, and experience with modern technologies and leveraging best practices in the areas of open source tech solutions, and in managing software development and agile methodologies. In addition, working with the Manager of Software Engineering, this leader will build and lead a highly technical team of developers and engineers.

• Completely own the technical delivery of the application stack. In doing this, the Lead Engineer will be required to translate complex functional specifications to detail technical designs regarding Test Case, Security, Testing Automation, User Interfaces (UI), application functionality, middleware technologies, API, deployment artifacts, artifact packaging, and application monitoring automation, logging, and performance metrics
• Serve as the strategist who researches technologies and frameworks, and creates reference implementations for the team members to follow
• Lead sprint planning meetings, author specific stories, plan and lead spikes to ensure that the team understands their objectives and has committed to completing their work on an agreed-upon timeline
• Own the development environment, development tooling strategy and toolchains for effective and efficient delivery of software in support of the chosen methodologies.
• Create detailed design, perform pull request reviews, and mentor the team on coding best practices
• Adopt a product mentality and define goals, consider trade-offs, prioritize, drive decisions, and execute on them
• Servant leader to the team, actively working towards team goals and success
• Demonstrate dedication to support the high availability mission critical platform during off hours and holidays as needed.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated affinity for continuous learning specifically in the technology domain and how to leverage it for building great reliable products
• Bachelor’ Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent related technical field
• At least 10+ years’ experience building, leading, managing and supporting omni channel commerce platforms using current and emerging technology stacks
• Experience leading development team, building roadmaps, and adopting principles and standards in the design, development, and delivery of solutions
• Experience with DevOps and working with Infrastructure as Code environments
• Proficient in programming languages like Ruby (with Rails framework experience), C# .Net, Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, Rust, etc.
• Proficient in Databases like Mongo, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, etc.
• Proficient in concepts around RESTful API services and Interfaces
• Experience with endpoint protocols and security components (SFTP/FTP, File, OAuth1 and OAuth2, OIDC, TLS, SSH, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience with either Test Driven development or Behavior Driven development with a clear understanding of the tool stack. Expertise in unit test, building Integration, smoke and regression testing suite, code coverage process, and pipeline setup
• Experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using a project management/ticketing tool such as JIRA, Azure DevOps
• Experience building cloud native applications on any one cloud preferably AWS, asynchronous communications patterns such as via RabbitMQ/Kafka or other methods, caching via Redis, Memcached, Hazelcast, etc caching systems and AWS deployments and services
• Experience with observability and monitoring using modern tools and systems
• Service oriented leader who possesses a true 24×7 support and service mentality
• The ability to build relationships with stakeholders, help others grow in their careers, and create inclusive environments

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with designing, building, and supporting microservices in a hybrid cloud environment
• Experience building containerized applications using GitOps, K8s, Service Mesh, K8s operators
• AWS Solution Architect or other certifications
• Professional experience with cloud development on GCP, Azure, Heroku

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Veteran/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.