We are seeking a hands-on Team Lead to guide the architecture, development, and maintenance of our cloud-based Data Analytics platform. As the technical leader of a small team based out of our development office in New Hope, PA, you will be responsible for taking on various responsibilities and embracing the Agile development approach in order to help us continue to develop high-quality products. You will be exposed to the UI, front and backend, database, performance tuning, security design, and deployment.

Responsibilities to Include (but not limited to):

• Engage with other leads, developers, designers, product managers and quality engineers.
• Architect full-stack solutions deployed to the cloud.
• Debug time-sensitive issues.
• Lead a team in Agile Scrum sprints to deliver new features and improvements.
• Participate in the hiring process to grow your team.
• Drive innovation by coming up with new and surprising ideas for our products and processes.
• Miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 5+ years of JAVA software development experience is required: you must have excellent understanding of J2SE and deep architectural understanding of Java web applications & application servers [advanced educational accomplishments will also be considered].
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Deep knowledge of back-end technologies (i.e. Spring, Hibernate, RDBMS/SQL).
• Solid understanding of standard front-end technologies like CSS, HTML, JavaScript (Angular or React), REST, JSON.
• Superior creative and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Initiative and the ability to work toward goals as a team.
• Working knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with the good and the bad of both successful and failed projects.
• Ability to slice and dice problems and tasks so they can be worked on by others and ability to mentor others (interns, rookies, and junior developers).
• Relaxed yet enthusiastic and motivated attitude towards the craft, company, and products.

Preferred skills that would be good to have:

• Knowledge of Open Source libraries, tools and frameworks, e.g. for logging, testing, and building.
• Excitement for the latest trends in application design.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (i.e. IAM, EC2, S3) or similar cloud computing services.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of the technologies related to big data, analytics, and data visualization.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies like XP and Scrum.
• Interest to learn more about new languages and frameworks.

Vantage Labs offers a competitive base salary; company benefits program including Medical, Dental, Vision, Short/Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, ID Theft Protection, 401K, Tuition Reimbursement, etc.; paid training; and professional career advancement opportunities.

Vantage Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer