Lead Software Engineer - R&D Productivity Tools

About the role

SEL has ambitious goals for developing products that make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. When open-source or off-the-shelf development tools don't meet the unique needs of our engineering domains, we'll call on you to rapidly create and scale high-quality, custom solutions. As a Lead Software Engineer joining a new productivity tools team, you'll improve existing tools, shape the roadmap for new ones, train users, and set the team's software development culture. Within 6-12 months, you'll be exceeding the expectations of internal customers and measurably improving their productivity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the specification, design, and delivery of custom software tools that raise Research and Development (R&D) quality and productivity.
• Define, collect, and report measures that tie tool adoption to productivity outcomes.
• Lead the full application lifecycle of assigned tools and maintain their documentation artifacts.
• Lead the strategy for automated testing, release readiness, and post-release support.

• Define, adopt, and continuously improve development processes across the team.
• Train internal customers on new tools and workflows, and gather feedback that informs the roadmap.
• Mentor Engineers, Associate Engineers, and Interns.
• Model, teach, and apply SEL Values, Principles of Operations, and World Class Manufacturing Principles.
• Understand.
• Create.
• Simplify.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent
• Six years of full-stack software development experience
• Designing, building, and supporting applications through the full lifecycle
• Working directly with users to define requirements and validate solutions
• Leading technical decisions across a team or project
• Code review

Preferred Qualifications

• User experience (UX) design, including user research, interaction design, and usability testing
• Design systems, accessibility standards, and rapid prototyping tools
• Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants, such as GitHub Copilot
• AI-powered tool and workflow integration
• Enterprise systems and data pipelines
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation tools, such as GitHub Actions
• Application programming interface (API) development
• Python or other scripting languages
• Database design and administration
• Open-source software development
• Ontologies and knowledge graphs

Pay and benefits

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees.

• We're 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.
• We offer top tier medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays, annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days, 9 paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.
• We foster growth and development of our employees through avenues such as STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs.
• Ask our team about other benefits including wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits.

Pay Range Data

Lead Software Engineer - $107,600 - $161,500

We are open to reviewing additional candidates with more or less experience and the pay range may differ if filled at a different level. Our pay ranges are determined by job and responsibility. We base our starting pay offer and title on job-related factors such as candidate experience, training, knowledge, and skills.

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SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled.