Lead Engineer

Job Description Job Purpose ICE Mortgage Technology is the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry. ICE Mortgage Technology solutions enable lenders to originate more loans, reduce origination costs, and reduce the time to close, all while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, quality and efficiency. In this Staff Software Engineer role, you will be working in a dynamic development team while collaborating with other developers, product management and customer support teams. You will have an opportunity to participate in designing and developing services utilized across product lines. All our products are deployed in public (AWS) and/or private cloud environments. Responsibilities Expertly able to analyze needs and requirements of existing and proposed systems. Develop technical specifications. Responsible for highly sensitive or critical problem determination. Able to diagnose complex developmental & operational problems and develop change management process. Able to recommend upgrades & improvements at a component level. Identifies both benefits and detriments for proposed solutions. Maintain broad experienced-based understanding of business and impact of industry trends. Mentors junior engineer Able to lead small teams, run planning meetings and facilitate accurate estimation of tasks Develops models of business functionality through prototyping. Participates in design and code review and code management. Identifies improvements and new processes. Identifies tools and processes for problem determination. Knowledge of computing infrastructure, including impacts on developmental & operational environments, and able to perform integration testing. Able to influence and collaborate closely with groups in and outside the development team (eg. QA, Product Management, UX, SRE) to achieve high quality and predictable results, Work with Implementation Team to ensure that roll out of our applications to new customers is successful, Lead R&D efforts in the area of selected topics. Rotate between product teams to ensure that they have all the engineering and architectural support they need. Knowledge and Experience 8+ years of direct experience with modern web stacks, design, development and deployment of high volume web applications and APIs. Working knowledge of relational database design and management. Expertise with object-oriented languages, especially with Java. History of building resilient, stateless, scalable, distributed and observable systems. Experience in building services (REST and SOAP) with high focus on performance. Expertise with microservices and knowledge of modern cloud services (AWS). Practical perspective on software engineering discipline, focus on learning and delivering, and passion for high quality. You build it - You own it mentality is a must. Sense of ownership is paramount to achieving success. Great energy and enthusiasm with a positive, collaborative working style, clear communication and writing skills. Bachelor s in computer science or equivalent experience. Masters degree is preferred. Technology stack Java 8+ PostgreSQL Apache Kafka AWS Docker Kubernetes Terraform Schedule This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week.