Senior Software Developer
SIL International
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
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Key highlights
- Experience in software engineering required
- Must have strong leadership and communication skills
- Preferred: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science
- Preferred: 3 to 5 years’ experience leading teams
- Travel required: at least once per year to meet development team
- Travel required: biannually to the Language Technology Conference
Role overview
Responsibilities
- Champion the team, partners, and user community to ensure alignment around overall strategy and direction of the product
- Discover what users need by conducting user research and unveiling critical insights
- Create the product’s long-term vision and strategy
- Align the team around a cohesive product roadmap
- Design, develop, and deploy software applications, new features, and defect fixes.
- Design and develop unit tests and perform code reviews
- Lead creation of targeted promotions: white papers, conference presentations, user videos
- Work with Director on yearly roadmap, budget, and funding proposals
- Work with Director and Language Technology Leadership to develop and grow partnerships
- Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership
- Lead performance reviews and goal discussions for your team
- Implement and manage Agile software development methodology
- Analyze software requirements by consulting with the user community
- Support user community with developer-level support
- Write technical reference documentation for the new software
- Participate in regular project status, planning, partnership, and strategic meetings
- Report any hardware and software needs to Director
- Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
- Be available to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
- Participate in professional conferences and meetings
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering
- A good understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Experience leading development teams
- A servant heart attitude
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Demonstrated skills in software development and algorithms
- Demonstrated passion for understanding and resolving complex user-needs into product priorities
- Demonstrated user interface design skills
- Demonstrated appreciation for quality user interface design
- Good interpersonal skills of communication
- Good organizational skills
- The ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase
- The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
- The ability to generate/analyze multiple solutions to a problem
- The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
- The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
- 3 to 5 years’ experience leading teams
Additional details
- Will complete the initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation.
- Weekly Hours (unspecified)
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- Originally posted on Himalayas