Development team lead At 2A Consulting

Does a fast-paced environment where you’re tasked with building solutions to unexpected challenges on the fly sound ideal? If so, you’ve got the attitude we’re looking for! You’re a seasoned developer with a knack for leadership who knows how to set up team members to do their best work. Throughout your professional gigs, you’ve been the go-to person to help others solve their dev challenges. You’re great at handling all kinds of personalities and find your niche with each team member. Solving problems is your reason for heading to work every day, and you love crafting new solutions then relying on the collective strength of your team to execute.

If you see yourself in our job description, apply! You’re just the development team lead we’re looking for at 2A. We want someone who can lead an agile team and support the delivery of programs and initiatives. We’re relying on you to manage the quality, performance and maintenance of releases, and ensure they meet our clients’ objectives. While we value your technical background and expertise, we truly appreciate the soft skills you bring to the table—we’d rather work with someone who’s optimistic, not apocalyptic.

Responsibilities

• Develop alongside the broader development team on a variety of different projects
• Lead code reviews to ensure architecture and design are followed and secured
• Participate in establishing and documenting solutions architecture and technical design
• Ensure quality control of code produced by the team
• Lead deployment planning
• Sign-off on deployment readiness, deployment tasks and troubleshooting
• Help select tools and technologies
• Ensure the stabilization and support of production systems
• Bring in current technical know-how and best practices in software development
• Provide regular updates to project managers
• Advocate for the customer in design decisions
• Collaborate with the team to drive flexible and iterative solutions
• Handle feedback gracefully and encourage team members to share their ideas freely
• Foster a culture of open learning and help promote failing fast

Qualifications

• Experience with NET, c#, MVC, LINQ, Nuget, SQL, and Entity Framework
• Experience with Azure or other cloud services including deployment
• Experience with HTML, CSS, DOM, responsive, mobile-first, table-less design
• Minimum of 4 years of experience as a web/server developer
• Experience leading a team of developers and driving agile practices within a delivery team
• Experience with Javascript and JQuery for complex web app development
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle, including waterfall and agile
• Excellent understanding of REST API's and other back-end architectures, database architectures, object-oriented programming and relational data modeling
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Microsoft certifications are a plus
• Familiarity with WordPress, Shopify, and PHP development is a plus
• Familiarity with frameworks such as React, AngularJS is a plus
• Knowledge and experience with test-driven development, and service-driven architecture
• Experience woring with Jira or VSO a plus
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Exposure to product information management, order management or customer service systems is a plus
• A passion for user experience and performance

About 2A
We're a marketing firm focused on storytelling for business. We bridge the distance between creative and strategic—delivering fresh solutions that connect.

We will help businesses define who they are and what they do, building brands from the ground up. We’ll create a look and language that turns heads—making assets that give life to stories. When it’s time to drive it home, our project managers will plot, cultivate and measure success across channels.

We strive to offer an environment that is both supportive and challenging—pushing team members to do their best work, expand their skillsets and be creative while providing the tools, collaboration and camaraderie to help make it happen. We like what we do, and we want to work with people who are committed to their work, and nice to be around.

2A is an engaging workplace—and now we have the listing to back us up. In 2018 we were added to Seattle Business Magazine’s list of top 100 companies to work for.