Senior Software Engineer Lead - Hybrid

Are you excited by the prospect of working with prestigious global brands?

Do you enjoy working with customers to solve complex technical problems?

Join our Custom Development Team

We are a team of talented and experienced cybersecurity software developers. We create tools, processes, and knowledge to help our customers and internal teams extend our core product's features and usability. We are constantly on the lookout for new people to inspire us and make us better.

Collaborate with the best-known global brands

You will work with an innovative technology redefining how organizations protect their key applications and assets from advanced cyber threats.

As a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Leading and mentoring a team of software engineers in designing and developing custom tools and integrations.
• Interacting with customers to gather and understand their requirements.
• Overseeing project delivery and ensuring technical excellence across the team's output
• Coordinating with customers and internal stakeholders to gather requirements and define technical roadmaps.
• Driving architectural decisions and proposing scalable solutions for complex technical problems.
• Fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the development team.
• Collaborating with R&D and Product teams to align custom solutions with the core of Professional Service product strategy.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5 years of hands-on software development experience, covering the entire software development life cycle.
• Lead and supervise effectively; mentor software teams or manage projects, overseeing developers' work with prior relevant experience essential.
• Have a deep background in Python development and technical project leadership.
• Oversee and implement large-scale, complex software project designs with demonstrated expertise in managing intricate development processes effectively.
• Develop expertise in creating and maintaining REST APIs effectively for seamless integration and reliable functionality across diverse systems and applications.
• Demonstrate exceptional communication abilities and effectively manage relationships with stakeholders.
• Demonstrate expertise in customer collaboration, resolving intricate issues, shaping development workflows, and upholding code quality via collaborative reviews.
• Have expertise in Django, Networking, Operating Systems, Angular, ServiceNow, CMDB tools, and deploying or operating security software or networking equipment.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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