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Lead Software Engineer

Plano, Texas

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Job Overview

Job Description:

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Consumer Technology experience team is delivering innovative and reliable technology solutions to power differentiated, simplified customer experiences. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

This career step requires senior level experience. Responsible for the overall delivery process of a software application or service, including design, development, testing, deployment, production application support (e.g., troubleshooting) and maintenance with a focus on automation.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Work with portfolio stakeholders, Solution and Enterprise Architects, to develop, analyze, contribute to MVP approach, and realize the implementation of product enhancements.
  • As a Lead Software Engineer, provide detailed technical design to both frontend (UI) and backend BFF layers and lead the team.
  • Build an amazing customer experiences to improve overall company sales and revenue using Gen-AI & Co-pilot experiences!
  • Technically, lead the team to craft, develop, test, and maintain integrated applications and products.
  • Design and lead efficient and consistent caching strategy across web engineering applications.
  • Lead the team to build high performance Decisioning Engine applications.
  • Derive technology roadmaps for end-to-end engineering strategy and initiatives.
  • Establish critical NFRs at the solution level, participate in the definition of others.
  • Contribute to technical roadmap and technical debt elimination, balancing time, resource, and quality constraints to achieve business and strategic goals and requirements
  • Develop integrated systems enabling unified experience across applications and driving insights for end-to-end user experience.
  • Help build and maintain our Continuous Delivery pipeline with the goal of moving changes to production faster and safer, while ensuring key operational standards.
  • Provide peer reviews to other specialists including feedback on performance, scalability, and correctness.
  • Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to continually identify opportunities for enhancing the functionality and performance of UI components and framework tooling.
  • Actively contribute to the adoption of new frameworks, standards, and new technologies.
  • Enforce unit test coverage and automation coverage to be at maximum to ensure high quality product.

Job Contribution:

    Minimum Qualification and Skills required:

    • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree program in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
    • 8-10+ years of proven experience building sophisticated applications and APIs in Cloud and hybrid cloud environments at large scale preferably in Java and React JS.
    • Experience building applications using Generative AI, LLMs & Copilots.
    • Technical leadership designing products as well as mentoring and developing high preforming teams.
    • 4+ years of experience developing applications utilizing relational databases and / or no SQL databases as part of the overall application architecture.
    • Extremely motivated, highly passionate, and curious about new technologies. Take pride in your work and strive to achieve incredible results and possess superb communication and planning skills.
    • Ability to work successfully with multi-functional teams, principals, and architects. Coordinates optimally across organizational boundaries and geographies.
    • 4+ year of experience in developing a Big-Data Batch and Streaming applications in a cloud context and is familiar with the patterns and process of managing cloud infrastructure.
    • 5+ years of experience with Java and Scala programming.
    • 8+ years of strong background of object-oriented design principles and design patterns.
    • Expert knowledge and experience working with asynchronous message processing, stream processing and event driven computing.
    • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment

    Preferred Skills

    • Experience improving enterprise productivity and employee experience leveraging Generative AI based solutions.
    • Background with leading the technology roadmap for multiple products and influencing product roadmap based of technology evolution.
    • Experience with Cloud Platforms, experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
    • Passion to collaborate and build supporting development infrastructures like CI/CD and DevOps.
    • Excellent programming, debugging, performance analysis, and test design skills is a plus.


    Technical Skills:
    Node.js, Next JS, Micro Front-End architecture, Bootstrap.js, Java, REST services, NoSql technologies (Cassandra/Mongo DB), Spring boot, Kafka/MQ, Redis, Apache Flink, Apache NiFi, Splunk, Azure, Prometheus/Grafana, Git, Jira, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes

    Supervisory:

    No.

    Our Lead Software Engineering, earns between $143,800.00-$215,800.00 USD Annual, Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

    Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

    · Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.

    · 401(k) plan

    · Tuition reimbursement program.

    · Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)

    · Paid Parental Leave.

    · Paid Caregiver Leave.

    · Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected.

    · Adoption Reimbursement.

    · Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

    · Life and Accidental Death Insurance.

    · Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal.

    · Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

    · Extensive employee wellness programs.

    · Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

    AT&T is leading the way to the future – for customers, businesses and the industry. We're developing new technologies to make it easier for our customers to stay connected to their world. Together, we’ve built a premier integrated communications and entertainment company and an amazing place to work and grow. Team up with industry innovators every time you walk into work, creating the world you always imagined. Ready to #transformdigital with us?

    Apply now!

    #ConsumerTechnologyeXperience

    Weekly Hours:

    40

    Time Type:

    Regular

    Location:

    Plano, Texas

    Salary Range:

    $143,800.00 - $215,800.00

    It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.



    Job ID R-28848 Date posted 11/19/2024
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