Lead Application Development and Modernization Engineer

About Liatrio

Liatrio is a collaborative, delivery transformation consulting firm dedicated to accelerating software delivery and innovating processes. We expedite world-class delivery for enterprises by building advanced DevOps platforms, while coaching engineering and business teams every step of the way. We have partnered with clients across diverse industries, anywhere from financial institutions to healthcare providers. Get ready to drive holistic change across people, process, culture, and technology because we are a small company with a big impact!

Who You Are

Liatrio lives and breathes the following traits; people on our team tend to have a combination of the following qualities:

- Willingness and hunger to learn

- Devotion to open communication and transparency

- Value collaboration and willingness to share responsibilities across internal and client work 

- Effectively communicate in difficult conversations

- Desire to solve complex problems - interpersonal, technical, and business

- Ability to acknowledge shortcomings and provide solutions

- Empathy towards others

- Appreciate mentoring and helping others grow

- Navigate ambiguity and frequent change

What You Do

We’re looking for a hands-on, technical leaders who are passionate about application development, modernizing legacy software, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps technology and who want to help organizations and engineering teams improve quality and speed of delivery. 

We each bring varying degrees of knowledge to the table. You will have extensive experience in most of the below areas but not necessarily all of them. This is not a comprehensive list; there may be other equally valuable skills and experience you bring that are not listed here.

Client Delivery

- Provide technical delivery leadership within a project or workstream under the guidance of an account leader or architect

- Accountable for technical excellence for the assigned project or workstream

- Uplift engineers, both client's and Liatrio teammates

- Able to architect a technical solution, articulate the solution clients, and lead a small team of engineers to implement the solution

- Serve as a technical point of contact, providing architectural guidance and the Liatrio point of view to the client

- Ensure account leader or architect is up to date on any concerns or changes to work, as well as reaching out for guidance or feedback on strategy and approach

- Able to adapt quickly to change and shift focus as required to meet customer needs

Team Leadership

- Organize work for team members, breaking down tasks regularly and pairing with other engineers

- Mentor junior team members, including 1:1 meetings, providing feedback, guiding technical growth

- Provide feedback to account leader or architect on overall team performance and areas for growth

Internal Liatrio Growth

- Seek and provide fast feedback both personally and for others.

- Generate ideas and be willing to fail fast and demonstrate with POC’s

- Drive knowledge sharing in and out of client engagements

- Participate in business development

Tools and Technologies

As a hands-on leader, we expect you’ll have significant experience with many of the tools and technologies we frequently use with our clients.  While we know it's impossible to be an expert on all the tools available, for this Lead Engineer position we expect you to be an expert in one or more areas, communicate with client and Liatrio stakeholders, be able to perform advanced tasks in all of the below areas independently, and able to upskill client and colleague engineers.

- Owned full stack development of completely new applications, as well as modernization of existing legacy applications

- Fluent in multiple programming languages, including FP and OOP, and databases

- Extensive experience creating frontend web applications,

backend API services, cloud-hosted applications, and full stack

standalone solutions

- Expertise navigating enterprise environments, distributed systems, and large/multi-cloud environments

- Comfortable with end-to-end software delivery, able to review code and emphasizing with developers and engineers across the SDLC

- Comfortable with cloud-native architecture, source control management systems and branching strategies, and automation

- First-hand experience building or deep knowledge from being embedded within Operations teams responsible for: containerization, infrastructure as code, platform engineering, data center architecture, systems architecture, observability, and DevOps practices

- Advocates for patterns, practices, and best practices like Agile, TDD, BDD, and DDD

• Employment eligibility: must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without the need for sponsorship.
• Travel availability: we divide our time between working remotely and visiting our client sites located throughout the U.S. For most roles, travel typically ranges from 10-50%, depending on client need.

• Full benefits including unlimited PTO, funded HSA option, 401k match, monthly LiveWell stipend, and quarterly company bonus
• Annual base salary: $140,000-$180,000, depending on experience

Liatrio is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and strive to create a culture of inclusion. We do not discriminate, nor do we tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

We want our process to be accessible for everyone. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact hello@liatrio.com.