Lead Software Engineer (Contractor)
Chicago, IL
Contractor Roles – Contractor /
Contractor (C2C) /
Remote
A BIT ABOUT WAVICLE
Wavicle Data Solutions leverages Cloud, Data & Analytics technologies to deliver complex business & digital transformation solutions to our clients. As a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) with a 40%+ women workforce, Wavicle fosters a diverse & equitable environment where innovative professionals come together as a team and enable our clients to realize their goals in their transformation journey. Our team members collaborate by infusing their creative problem solving skills, agile working & tech know-how to drive value for our clients.
At Wavicle, a Top Workplace award winner, you’ll find a challenging and rewarding work environment where our 500+ team members based in US, India Canada work from 42 cities in a remote/hybrid, digitally connected way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes: healthcare, retirement, life insurance, short/long-term disability, unlimited paid time off, short-term incentive plans (annual bonus) and long-term incentive plans.
WHY WAVICLE?
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THE OPPORTUNITY
Wavicle is hiring a Lead Software Engineer with deep object-oriented programming skills to join us in
developing and maintaining various serverless microservices. This is a contract opportunity and an
opportunity to work with some state-of-the art technologies and solutions.
What You Will Get To Do
- Responsible for the design, development, and testing of python-based services.
- Design and implement service-oriented architecture and pipeline.
- Responsible for leading, reviewing leveraging Databricks in the design, development, and testing of Pyspark data pipelines (batch and streaming).
- Responsible for the design, development, and testing of cloud artifacts in Azure or other cloud technology.
- Responsible for event-driven microservice development on the cloud.
- Responsible for optimal feature engineering including batch and streaming.
- Collaborates closely with different teams for project delivery.
- Provides high performance and secure applications.
- Support solutions to solve business challenges.
- Responsible for the design, development, and test of cloud artifacts.
- Responsible for troubleshooting and debugging cloud applications.
- Responsible for reviewing the unit test to test & cover developed code.
- Responsible for overseeing and releasing code to production (CI/CD processes).
What You Bring To The Team
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or relevant degree is required.
- Leadership skills to manage a team based out of offshore, collaborate with onsite internal and external stakeholders to prioritize objectives, key results, and plan deliverables in an agile environment.
- Deep object-oriented programing skills (Python preferred, Java or C#) in developing and maintaining various microservices.
- Experience writing and testing code, debugging programs and integrating with Event Hub/Kafka and NoSQL Database.
- Experience developing server-side logic and able to test and package standalone python modules.
- Strong experience developing APIs and has written API documentation using Swagger or similar tool.
- 8+ years' experience in ANY cloud technology AWS/GCP/Azure, but Azure is preferred.
- Experience in CI/CD processes in systems like Jenkins, GitHub workflows, etc.
- Basic familiarity with Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM etc.
- Must be familiar with Unit Testing framework including but not limited to JUnit, .Net equivalent, Pytest framework.
- Deep understanding on using GitHub or any code repository platform.
- Work from home opportunity; however, must reside in the U.S. and work 8-5 p.m. ET.
- Nice-to-have: A basic understanding of ML model development lifecycle.
$100 - $110 an hour
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Wavicle is an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or veteran status.
