Senior Software Developer

Member / Volunteer Full Time / Part Time Supported / Volunteer Remote

Lead smaller development teams through the product lifecycle. Design applications, perform code reviews, manage budgets, and align development priorities with user needs and product roadmaps.

Announcement

We are seeking full-time and volunteer professional Senior Software Developers to help us lead distributed teams of dynamic software developers. We have product teams that work in various frameworks and platforms.

About SIL Global

SIL Global is a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving translation teams worldwide. If you believe, as we do, that all languages are of value, form an integral part of people's identity, and have the potential to serve them in a rapidly changing world, then you can be part of a software team serving translation teams worldwide.

The Role

A Senior Software Developer is a team leadership role for smaller teams with responsibilities that encompass the entire product lifecycle, leadership of the team, and fiscal management, and software development. Senior Software Developers work closely with the Development team, Language Technology leadership, partners and supporting organizations, user communities, and leaders of field trials. A good Senior Software Developer is expected to be a customer spokesperson, product visionary, team champion, and a strategic leader. The goal of this role is to develop and manage roadmaps and sprint priorities via robust processes for collecting and synthesizing user needs. Their duties include meeting with clients to determine their software needs, coding and testing software to ensure functionality, and updating software programs to refine components like cybersecurity measures and data storage capacities.

Major Responsibilities

Champion the team, partners, and user community to ensure alignment around overall strategy and direction of the product
Discover what users need by conducting user research and unveiling critical insights
Create the product's long-term vision and strategy
Align the team around a cohesive product roadmap
Design, develop, and deploy software applications, new features, and defect fixes.
Design and develop unit tests and perform code reviews
Lead creation of targeted promotions: white papers, conference presentations, user videos
Work with Director on yearly roadmap, budget, and funding proposals
Work with Director and Language Technology Leadership to develop and grow partnerships
Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership
Lead performance reviews and goal discussions for your team

Minor Responsibilities

Implement and Manage Agile software development methodology
Analyze software requirements by consulting with the user community
Support user community with developer-level support
Write technical reference documentation for the new software
Participate in regular project status, planning, partnership, and strategic meetings
Report any hardware and software needs to Director
Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
Be available to travel biennially to the Language Technology Conference
Participate in professional conferences and meetings

Knowledge & Skills

A servant heart attitude
Demonstrated leadership skills
Demonstrated skills in software development and algorithms
Demonstrated passion for understanding and resolving complex user-needs into product priorities
Demonstrated user interface design skills
Demonstrated appreciation for quality user interface design
Good interpersonal skills of communication
Good organizational skills
The ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase
The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
The ability to generate/analyze multiple solutions to a problem
The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively

Education

Senior Software Developers should have experience in software engineering, a good understanding of the software development lifecycle, and experience leading development teams. A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is preferred, but we care more for a heart and mind that are always learning. 3 to 5 years' experience leading teams is preferred.

Training & Orientation

Will complete the initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation.

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