Systems Engineer
Summary:
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Duration: 3 Months, temp to perm
- Work Mode: Hybrid-Flexible
- Standard office hours (8:00 AM 5 PM) with a one-hour lunch
- Lead the design and development of digital portal solutions across front-end and back-end systems, ensuring performance, scalability, and security.
- Provide technical guidance to developers and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with product owners and architects to align business goals with technical execution and deliver high-impact features.
- Define and enforce engineering standards, including code reviews, testing strategies, and deployment practices.
- Coordinate with offshore leads and teams, ensuring alignment on priorities, blockers, and delivery timelines.
- Support content readiness by guiding tagging, metadata, and component usage for personalization and accessibility.
- Champion modern development practices, including automated testing, Agile methodologies, and UX collaboration.
- Participate in defect triage and root cause analysis, driving quality improvements and prevention strategies.
- Proven experience leading software engineering teams in Agile environments (SAFe Agile delivery methodology).
- Deep expertise in Angular, Node.js, GraphQL, Typescript, SQL, and Java.
- Strong understanding of web security, including Akamai WAF and AWS-hosted applications.
- Experience with unit testing tools (e.g., JUnit, Mockito, SoapUI) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to mentor and coach developers, encouraging growth and leadership within the team.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
- Passion for building accessible, compliant, and user-friendly digital products.
- Interest in transitioning to a full-time employee role after initial engagement.
- Work on meaningful digital products that serve diverse user personas.
- Be part of a collaborative, transparent, and growth-oriented engineering culture.
- Influence architectural decisions and drive technical excellence.
- Opportunity to grow into a long-term leadership role within the organization.
