Lead Software Engineer — R&D Productivity Tools

SEL has ambitious goals for developing products that make electric power safer more reliable and more economical. When open-source or off-the-shelf development tools dont meet the unique needs of our engineering domains well call on you to rapidly create and scale high-quality custom solutions. As a Lead Software Engineer joining a new productivity tools team youll improve existing tools shape the roadmap for new ones train users and set the teams software development culture. Within 612 months youll be exceeding the expectations of internal customers and measurably improving their productivity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Lead the specification design and delivery of custom software tools that raise Research and Development (R&D) quality and productivity. Define collect and report measures that tie tool adoption to productivity outcomes. Lead the full application lifecycle of assigned tools and maintain their documentation artifacts. Lead the strategy for automated testing release readiness and post-release support. Define adopt and continuously improve development processes across the team. Train internal customers on new tools and workflows and gather feedback that informs the roadmap. Mentor Engineers Associate Engineers and Interns. Model teach and apply SEL Values Principles of Operations and World Class Manufacturing Principles. Understand. Create. Simplify. Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
• Six years of full-stack software development experience
• Designing building and supporting applications through the full lifecycle
• Working directly with users to define requirements and validate solutions
• Leading technical decisions across a team or project
• Code review

Preferred Qualifications

• User experience (UX) design including user research interaction design and usability testing
• Design systems accessibility standards and rapid prototyping tools
• Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as GitHub Copilot
• AI-powered tool and workflow integration
• Enterprise systems and data pipelines
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation tools such as GitHub Actions
• Application programming interface (API) development
• Python or other scripting languages
• Database design and administration
• Open-source software development
• Ontologies and knowledge graphs

Location: Pullman WA

Competitive pay. Superior benefits. Inspiring work.

People are at the core of our company and we hire employee-owners. We welcome you to learn more about how we support employees.

• Were 100% employee owned. Retirement benefits include an employer funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.
• We offer top tier medical prescription dental vision life and disability insurance.
• We recognize the importance of a healthy life balance and offer: 10 paid holidays annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days 9 paid sick days and paid family and medical leave that covers 90% of your pay.
• We foster growth and development of our employees through avenues such as STEM courses apprenticeships tuition assistance and engineering development programs.
• Ask our team about other benefits including wellness fertility adoption and flexible spending benefits.

Pay Range Data:

Lead Software Engineer - $107600 - $161500

We are open to reviewing additional candidates with more or less experience and the pay range may differ if filled at a different level. Our pay ranges are determined by job and responsibility. We base our starting pay offer and title on job-related factors such as candidate experience training knowledge and skills.

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SEL is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Vets/Disabled.