LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and related services, allowing hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide to book a service with the tap of a button. But lawn care is only the beginning - our vision is to become the one-stop shop for all home services.Our company is flourishing at an incredible pace, profitable and achieving remarkable success. And we're not stopping there! We're actively seeking talented and hard-working individuals like you to join our team and help us achieve our ultimate vision.What you'll do:As a Lead Software Engineering Contractor at LawnStarter, you'll report to one of our Engineering Managers and be responsible for leading technical initiatives from inception to the hands of our users. You will be empowered to drive continuous improvement and constantly evaluate the return on investment on every decision we make when building our products.You'll be in a hands-on development and technical lead role collaborating with our cross-functional teams to help continue building the leading LawnStarter platform. Your focus will be architecting solutions, writing quality code, leading other engineers by example, and solving technical challenges that will continue improving the experience of our users. You will become a key contributor to the codebase willing to work in any area of the code when needed. This can include JavaScript, PHP, Terraform, or other backend/operations languages or technologies.Our ability to deliver quality software to our customers in a timely, predictable manner will be directly attributable to your capacity to identify and address challenges faced by the initiatives you will be leading.You'll also:Lead the development of LawnStarter platform ensuring that we're utilizing the best development techniques, architectural patterns, frameworks, and libraries for those initiativesOwn and ensure the resolution of complex problems found in our systems and integrationsFind opportunities to broadcast knowledge and lessons learned across delivery teamsDelegate to teammates and work with them to ensure they're successfulIdentify technical debt buy-down opportunities and work with the engineering management team and the product management team to prioritize these activitiesEnsure patterns are in place to provide thorough automated testing with tests at each level of the test pyramidCommunicate patterns and solutions through both thorough written documentation and technical presentations
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