Lead Engineer

At CloudFactory we believe that talent is equally distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. We also believe that the future of work is distributed and on-demand. We are leveling the playing field with technology that effectively shrinks the distance between companies and the world’s massive untapped talent pool. CloudFactory helps companies grow by connecting them to a scalable WorkStream, staffed by a global workforce, that is tightly integrated with their teams, processes and systems. CloudFactory helps companies scale by deeply integrating a global workforce into their teams, processes and systems. By harnessing the massive, untapped talent pool that exists in every corner of our planet, we will be able to maximize the potential of people, companies and ideas — regardless of where they originate.

As a member of CloudFactory’s engineering team, you will be tasked with building and growing a world-class distributed workforce management platform that will connect one million people in developing countries to basic computer work. You will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing domain level technical solutions and mentor other engineers. We believe that a strong and happy engineering team will give the long term results we desire as a company.

Roles and Responsibilities

Technical

• Develop bespoke enterprise grade applications. Actively participate in the feature design discussion keeping the business requirement at the center and communicate it to the wider audience with necessary documentation and diagram
• Recommend feature/ideas to product, contribute to idea/feature shaping up process and backlog refinement
• Find and maintain the technical debt backlog and work on a plan to knock out each of those as deemed necessary
• Help product team and stakeholders to understand detailed cost/complexity
• Communicate decisions through technical design artifacts, tech talks, and team meetings
• Review others' work in the context of the whole system and/or platform, work with them for improvement
• Build proof of concept to demonstrate design thinking and help to foster the adoption of new technologies
• Work on all phases of the development lifecycle, including continuous integration, tests deployment, and refactoring

Process

• Work continuously with other team members to improve the processes and implement it
• Propose, define and own the technical best practices and policies
• Identify gaps and opportunities in the existing testing tool set and techniques

Team/People

• Mentor engineers both technically and culturally via pairing, technical design review, and code review
• Help in onboarding a new member in technical areas
• Help team members to clarify technical decisions
• Help your teammates and help other engineers to level up
• Identify the time consuming or any blocker in the team (process/culture) and bring it up to other attention with recommended solutions
• Support Product Managers to ensure that an initiative/feature has a proper rollout and communication plan and support the rollout process.

Requirements

Behavioral Skills

• Ability to work across global teams and working with different cultures across different time zones with strong communication and collaboration skills
• Tendency to go above and beyond to make things work; manage own and others work to meet the deadline and assist other team members in their deliverables
• Desire to write clean, correct and efficient code
• Ability to breakdown complex problems into simple solutions

Technical Skills

• Proven work experience as a developer in React, Node.js, front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and and some knowledge of Go
• Good knowledge of AWS tools and technologies (i.e. Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS etc)
• Experience in building and using Continuous delivery ecosystem
• Ability to understand, document, and communicate the compromises made during the decision of technical discussions
• Ability to come up with multiple solutions to a problem and finalizing on one with proper rationale
• Experience with establishing and maintaining the best practices(test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring and code standards)
• Ability to estimate well at a project-level by identifying dependencies and managing them
• Experience of scoping/proposing flexible technical solutions independently
• Ability to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Experience with designing and developing the RESTful APIs
• Ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system

Tech Stack

• Go, Node.js, React
• AWS services (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, ALB, API Gateway, Kinesis, Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, serverless)
• Docker, ELK stack

Benefits

About CloudFactory:

CloudFactory provides a tech-forward, professionally managed workforce solution with all the benefits of a trained internal team. Our teams are agile, scale fast, and process data with high accuracy on virtually any platform specializing in Digitization, Managed Crowd-sourcing, Image Annotation, Image Labeling, Cloud Labor, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Video Labeling, Video Annotation, Outsourcing, Data Processing, Data Labeling, and Workforce Solutions

CloudFactory is on a mission to change how work gets done. We're using technology to make it super easy and affordable for startups and fast-growing companies to automate and outsource routine back-office data work. As a leader in the Impact Sourcing movement, we aim to connect 1 million people to online work, while raising them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities as they earn learn and serve in their journey of becoming leaders worth following. Our workforce is recruited from talent “hot spots” around the globe such as Nepal and Kenya where we can hire the best and brightest in areas where there are thousands of talented people, but limited opportunities for meaningful and sustainable employment.

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