Lead Software Enginer (L4) at Horizontal Talent

Title: Lead Software Engineer (L4)

Team: Software Engineering

Working Arrangement: Remote

About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, Malaysia and Australia.

What you'll be doing:

• Web design & development: Define software architecture and technical specifications for software applications including designing, building, scaling and maintaining production services. Lead software development lifecycles and day-to-day team delivery and adapt the team to changes in delivery requirements.
• Software development: Lead technical grooming and release planning for assigned teams. Conduct code reviews and other release ceremonies to ensure release timelines are met without compromising on software quality or service reliability.
• Defect Recovery: Lead pre-release and post-release requirements to ensure software applications meet quality, performance, and security standards. Identify and resolve technical issues that arise during the development process. Lead root-cause analyses of software defects and recovery initiatives.
• Documentation: Own technical documentation and other technical assets. Implement software development best practices and processes to set and maintain professional standards for the entire organization.
• Sharpen the Saw: Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in web and decentralized technology. Lead initiatives on technical innovation or debt across a team of engineers.
• Engineering Leadership: Work with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, growth, business development and operations to drive product impact. Serve as the main point-of-contact for their assigned team to other business functions.
• Coaching: Be an effective mentor to junior and senior engineers. Be familiar with core values and be able to advise on the career development of individual team members.
• Team Growth & Engagement: Engage with individual team members. Contribute to hiring new staff and advise talent development of individual contributors.
• Knowledge sharing: Be passionate about improving personal skills and inspire the same values in the team. Lead upskilling activities within the team.
• Support any ad hoc tasks as required by the company.Team Player: Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of software releases. Answer technical questions from other teams or outside the organization.
• Coaching: Provide feedback on the performance of junior staff and participate in people development initiatives.
• Support any ad hoc tasks as required by the company.
  
  

What We Look For In You

• Proven track record: Have 8-10 years web of software development experience and proven track record as both an individual contributor and sole ownership of a full domain. Experienced leading Agile or Scrum teams.
• Product Knowledge: Is a power user and advocate of CoinGecko products. Have general knowledge of financial markets, blockchains and cryptocurrency ecosystems. Have a technical understanding of NFTs, their ecosystem (e.g. marketplaces, NFTfi) and onchain analyses using explorers like Etherscan, Mempool.space etc.
• Web Development Knowledge: Solid understanding of software development life cycle and agile methodologies. Deep, substantial expertise in multiple programming environments. Experienced in building complex applications with security and scalability requirements.
• People Skills: Excellent communicator who is able to build working relationships within the team. Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Leadership: Strong sense of leadership and experience in working in growth-stage startups and leading a team of software developers to achieve a specific objective.
• Scope of Work: Work on objective-driven yet open-ended aspects of delivery. Play a key role in defining your own key results, and work with management to create a roadmap for the area you oversee.
• Problem Solving: Solve hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgment to assess risks and present arguments in a well-structured, data-backed, written narrative. Have passion, creativity and empathy for users.
  
  

Nice To Haves

• Be familiar with scaling distributed systems to handle high throughput, including managing failures in message queues, event streams, and other messaging protocols up to millions of messages per second.
• Experience working in growth-to-late-stage startups or tech enterprises.
  
  

Have a keen interest in decentralized technologies and its applications including cryptocurrencies

Worked with Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, Postgres, MongoDB, and Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud.

• Built high reliability, and big data systems.
  
  

Some Of The Perks

• Remote Work Flexibility: Work wherever you feel most productive. We also provide office space in 1Powerhouse (Malaysia) and WeWork (Singapore) if you ever feel like meeting your colleagues in person.
• Flexible Working Hours: No 9-5 structure, work the hours you need to get your tasks done.
• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage: We provide life, medical, and critical illness insurance.
• Virtual Share Options: You'll be entitled to virtual options, with terms and conditions.
• Bonus: You’ll be entitled to a bonus, with terms and conditions.
• Parking Allowance: You will be given a monthly fixed allowance of RM 150
• Meal Allowance: You will be given a monthly fixed allowance of RM600
• Learning Allowance:
• Social Activity Allowance: Want to set a date to watch a movie or play futsal with your colleagues? Get it organized and we subsidize a portion (claim basis) of the cost.
• Annual Company Offsite: We gather once a year to meet each other in person, reflect on the year, and partake in social activities!