Allergan Data Labs
AI

Lead Software Engineer

Allergan Data Labs · CA Irvine, California, United States · $63k - $90k

Actively hiring Posted over 2 years ago

As the Lead Engineer, you will report to the Software Engineering Manager, as well as continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve the most critical technical problems.

 

You Will

  • Champion code quality, reusability, scalability security and strategic software architecture decisions
  • Mentor software engineers utilizing proven design patterns and your experience building large scale public facing software

  • Conduct design and code reviews

  • Collaborate with Product and Project Management to take small ideas or concepts and turn them into high fidelity technical game plans and achieve the products and business goals

  • Care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully and the entire team is given the opportunity to take part in evaluating potential hires

  • Relate to our core values (see below) and would like to contribute to a positive working environment and culture

Required Experience & Technical Skills

  • At least 6+ years as a Full Stack Software Engineer and 3+ years’ experience leading engineering teams

  • Adept at drafting, validating and implementing software systems architecture using modern development and deployment technologies and can speak thoroughly to their tradeoffs.

  • Experience organizing and prioritizing tasks with Product and Project Management for a team of 4+ Engineers

  • Strong experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and NestJS (bonus)

  • Experience with React, NextJS, and React Native (bonus) for iOS and Android

  • Experience with Microservices and Event Driven Architecture using AWS, Serverless, Lambda, Docker, and Kubernetes

  • Strong familiarity with data structures, algorithms and design patterns

  • Proficient with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and understand when to use relational and non-relational databases.

  • Proponent of code testing and familiar with the common frameworks for unit, integration and functional tests

  • Experience working with DevOps Engineers using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD Pipelines.

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field; or comparable experience.

 

Our Core Values

  • Be Humble: You’re smart yet always interested in learning from others.
  • Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct and transparent way.
  • Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.
  • Learn More: Through blog posts, newsletters, podcasts, video tutorials and meetups you regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.
  • Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and return kindness to those you work with.

Perks

  • Competitive salary.
  • Competitive annual bonus targets.
  • 401k with dollar for dollar match, up to 6% of eligible earnings (base, bonus).  Plus additional company contribution.
  • RSU grants (Long Term Incentives) for approved roles.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
  • 17 paid holidays per year, including 3 floating holidays.
  • Annual Paid Time Off (PTO), with separate sick days
  • 12 weeks paid Parental Leave
  • Caregiver Leave
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance Plan
  • Flexible workplace accommodations.
  • We celebrate our wins with opportunities to attend Lakers, Knicks, Anaheim Ducks, Anaheim Angels and NY Rangers games.
  • Opportunities to attend concerts, festivals and other live entertainment events in recognition of delivering great work.
  • Tuition reimbursement.
  • Attend a tech or marketing conference of your choice each year.
  • A MacBook Pro and accompanying hardware to do great work.
  • A modern productivity toolset to get work done: Slack, Miro, Loom, Lucid, Google Docs, Atlassian and more.
  • Generous discounts on SkinMedica skin care products.
  • Discounted aesthetic treatment days multiple times a year.
  • $600 worth of Alle benefits each year to use towards aesthetic treatments and products.
  • Eligible for donation matching to over 1.5 million nonprofit organizations.
  • Attend AWS Re:Invent in person (Las Vegas) or virtually each year (for certain roles)

 

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