Lead Software Engineer

Kitestring is a 20+-million-dollar company with 100+ associates and growing. We are a 25 year old start up in Northwest Arkansas. We provide technical expertise to various clients delivering innovations that improve how customers shop and the enterprise operates. At Kitestring Technical Services, our mission is to share our collective knowledge to positively impact our employees, clients, and communities. Our vision is to be the most trusted partner in technology consulting. We believe people enable technology and vice-versa which is why we are in the business of both. We persistently challenge the barriers to diversity, inclusion, and empathetic cooperation.

Our Core Values are Transparency, People Driven, Empowered, Quality focused and socially responsible. Our values direct our company in how we do business and enhance the lives of our employees. Do our values speak to you?

Benefits

• Kitestring offers excellent benefits to its employees including:
• Unlimited PTO
• Maternal/Paternal Leave Policy
• Healthcare Benefits for Spouse, Domestic Partner, and Dependents
• Matching 401k 2-1 up to 4%
• H1B and Perm Sponsorship

Successful candidates for this position will have a proven track record of guiding entire domains in implementing new software strategies, implementing new technologies, and successfully deploying projects to replace or revamp legacy systems. The position will lead and consult on multiple adjacent projects within the company’s digital services domain and assist in integrating newer technologies such as Kafka, Launch Darkly, and Kubernetes clusters with industry best practices in mind.

What You'll Be Doing:
-You will architect, design, and review implementation details for the Loyalty domain within the company’s Digital Services solutions.
-Designs, codes, and implements new industry leading design patterns in domain specific code bases, to create the convention/technique/practice that teams are accountable to follow.
-Mentors specific domain engineering teams on principles and best practices.
-Provides engineering strategy to ensure code modernization and industry standard patterns for specific domain.
-Builds proof of concepts (POCs) that are production ready.
-Provides guidance to development teams within domain (Services).
-Leads non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability related to the specific domain.
-Promotes the implementation of new technology, solutions, and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivered to customers.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
-Bachelor’s Degree and relevant certifications within Microsoft Azure.
-5+ years of progressive responsibility in an IT environment with demonstrated technical knowledge which provides the necessary skills, knowledge, and abilities.
-3+ years of relevant experience with enterprise-wide Digital Services required.
-Advanced knowledge of software development best practices.
-Experience with Azure/.NET, Kafka, Launch Darkly, and Kubernetes containers, React knowledge is a bonus.
-Experience in the retail industry, specifically around customer loyalty programs
-Experience with defining architecture for a wider team and developing technical documentation
-Exposure to a wide variety of software project management methodologies and frameworks with a deep understanding of agile development methodologies.
-Successfully contributed to enterprise level projects with cross functional elements
-Experience in Scaled Agile framework is preferred.
-Experience with structured design, development and implementation of new and established computing architectures.