Lead Full Stack Engineer

: Overview: LSAC's mission is to advance law and justice by promoting access, equity, and fairness in law school admission and supporting the learning journey from prelaw through practice.

Summary of Position:

We are seeking a full stack engineering lead. You will work as part of an autonomous agile team to develop features and applications to meet the needs of the technology solutions department. We are looking for a candidate with deep understanding of engineering best practices, and a strong agile mindset. As lead, you are responsible to ensure the teams alignment with best practices, enterprise architecture and stakeholder satisfaction. In addition, this position will be responsible for operational maintenance, troubleshooting, and support of applicable back-end systems. We rely heavily on web-based services and you will have the opportunity to work with new and interesting technology.

The range for this position is $125,000-$135,000/year.

Responsibilities: Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The individual employed in this position will be required to:

• Collaborate with partners within the company to design, configure, maintain and promote a variety of internal- and external-facing applications and solutions.
• Collaborate across areas to ensure application reliability and coding to architectural standards.
• Support product teams by advocating for their needs and providing constructive guidance.
• Provide cohesiveness across dependent teams to ensure technical dependencies are planned for and addressed in a fast-paced environment.
• Connect with developers within your team to coach, inspire, and foster a continuous learning environment.
• Build and maintain scalable applications.
• Continuously monitor, test and optimize software.
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, analyst and stakeholders to deliver solutions to meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Contribute as part of the team by leveraging continuous delivery methods and test driven development to frequently deliver new functionality.
• Responsible for delivering high quality code.
• Work to scale software to support dynamic teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Be a contributor of knowledge to the team by reviewing code, sharing experience and listening.

Qualifications: Compe tencies:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient experience communicating through MS Teams
• Holds a strong sense of accountability for both individual and team objectives.
• Embraces a forward-thinking mindset, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and creativity.
• Excellent time management, prioritization, attention to detail and organization skills
• Ability to listen to stakeholders and form solutions.
• Proven ability as a servant leader.
• Values the success of the team over personal objectives.
• (Preferred) Experience with Selenium or comparable automated testing frameworks preferred

Education and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience
• A. or B.S. degree (or commensurate experience)
• Master's degree preferred
• Experience with relational and unstructured data repositories. Specifically, strong knowledge of stored procedures, scripts, COSMOS, SQL, and Oracle.
• Experience with web and cross platform technologies, including Web Services, React JS, MS VB and C# .NET frameworks (including Web Forms and Windows Forms, .NET, .NET WEB API, Entity Framework 6.4, MVC Pattern, SPA Framework)
• Experience with a variety of object-oriented languages.
• Experience with GIT, code management methods, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with RESTful or web APIs
• Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and ARIA standards.
• Azure tech stack knowledge (Azure functions, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage Account,
• Azure Key Vault, Azure Cosmos db, Service bus, Azure App Service, Azure VMs, Azure Table Storage)
• Knowledge of modern development practices and the development life cycle with experience using Scrum, Kanban, Lean or other agile methodologies
• Azure certifications preferred

Additional Information

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role does not have people management responsibilities.

Position Type

The LSAC standard business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET. While these are the standard office hours for LSAC, as an exempt employee, the employee will be expected to work the hours necessary to satisfactorily complete their assignments in a responsible and professional manner.

Work Environment

This is a remote position that operates in a remote, professional office environment. Whether remote or in-office, this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Travel Requirements

There is no travel expected for this position.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent must regularly write, read, and communicate effectively.

Special Conditions or Requirements

The ability to work weekends may be required.

Additional Information:

Please note that this may not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Job responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

LSAC actively seeks to foster greater levels of diversity in our workforce and in our pipeline of future leaders. We are committed to attract and retain candidates who have a passion for their work and encourage all qualified individuals, including minorities, women, LGBTQIA+, and individuals with a disability, to apply. LSAC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #Li-remote