Software Engineer- Team Lead (Remote)

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! First American's Direct division provides comprehensive title insurance protection and professional settlement services for real estate purchases, refinances and equity loans. Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

* Fully remote position with the option to work in-office *

You will lead an engineering team building key features of a global platform facilitating title and escrow services.  This is a hands-on role that manages and coaches a highly motivated team of four to six developers and facilitates driving the team's initiatives to completion.  You will play a key role in influencing and implementing the best approach for solving technical problems.  Leveraging a broad knowledge of available technologies, you will assist in finding solutions that will perform at scale, while also being maintainable and manageable long term.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with Product and have a deep understanding of our business goals and project outcomes.

• Drive the development velocity of your team forward to move quickly, refine estimations and meeting those estimated timelines.

• Drive design and development of critical application components.

• Ensure the team is executing, and delivering solutions that strike the right balance of achieving outcomes, time spent, best practices, cost, scalability.

• Help identify success metrics for the team.

• Identify and engage the appropriate resources for decisions and approvals in the interest of moving quickly and efficiently (e.g., validating with Product, validating architecture decisions, encouraging peer reviews, pulling in subject matter experts).

• Work across borders and time zones to help drive projects to completion.

What You'll Bring

• Prior experience as an engineering team lead.

• 5+ years hands on development experience.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Experienced mentoring and coaching developers in their career growth.

• Experience in fast past, highly iterative product development processes.

• Ability to deliver high quality software in a remote environment utilizing the scrum process.

• Has experience working in highly distributed, cloud-native environments (Azure or AWS).

• Has experience working with databases (MS SQL, Postgres SQL)

• Can self-manage and collaborate effectively.

• Uncomfortable committing code without tests.

• Knowledgeable of the presentation layer, Angular preferred.

Pay Range: $135,000 – $180,000 annually

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting.  Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

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What We Offer

By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.