Team Lead - Software Development

BHDIC is building a cloud-first, API driven, dynamic insurance platform that enables customers to purchase insurance policies directly online. Expanding our team, we are adding experienced software innovators to enhance our development efforts.

This role combines technical expertise with leadership skills. Developers in the Team Lead position will lead a dev team, help coordinate the day-to-day activities of various team members, assist team with roadblocks, and lead planning sessions. This developer will work closely with the team’s product owner to become a subject matter expert (SME) for the domain. They will also serve as individual contributors on the dev team, taking on tasks for both technical design and development.

This is a hybrid remote role that requires onsite presence in Pittston, PA at least once every other month. Candidates must live within a reasonable driving distance of either the Pittston, PA or Omaha, NE BHDIC office for required onsite meetings as needed in whichever BHDIC office is local to the employee.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead a cross functional, agile development team including members from development, quality assurance, and business analysts
• Serve as technical SME for a particular domain within the overall platform
• Provide guidance and mentoring including pair programming, code reviews, demos, group/1:1 coaching, and career development planning
• Design system features to meet business objectives while fitting into the enterprise platform ecosystem
• Contribute to cross-team platform design decisions
• Collaborate with Product team to ensure that requirements are understood, and short-term and long-term business objectives are met
• Follow department-wide technical, process, and quality standards while contributing to their improvement
• Participate in staffing decisions including interviews and hiring
• Take a lead role in creating technical documentation and content, ensuring that knowledge is transferred across the team
• Deliver regular and frequent code contributions aligned with User Stories and sprint goals
• Guide the team regarding unit testing; collaborate closely with QA leadership to guarantee successful functional and regression testing of all features
• Ensure that the team achieves system performance goals
• Lead the dev team to think with a security first mindset
• Take ownership of problems and solutions, being proactive to ensure success
• Provide innovative problem-solving skills, thinking outside the box
• Occasional travel to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton PA area for strategy meetings (several times per year)
• Normal working hours based on Eastern US time

* Internal job title may vary as we have multiple internal levels of Team Lead*