Job description
What you will do
Do you enjoy working with clients from different industries to investigate complex business problems and to design end-to-end analytical solutions that will improve their existing processes and ability to derive data-driven insights?
Aimpoint Digital is a dynamic and fully remote data and analytics consultancy. We work alongside the most innovative software providers in the data engineering space to solve our clients’ toughest business problems. At Aimpoint Digital, we believe in blending modern tools and techniques with tried-and-true principles to deliver optimal data engineering solutions.
As a Lead Applications Engineer you will:
- Become a trusted advisor working together with our clients, from data owners and analytic users to C-level executives on how to best solve their application needs
- Develop, test, and maintain web applications using React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML, and much more
- Be able to learn on the fly; taking your experience and applying to quickly upskill on new languages and technologies to meet evolving client demands
- Collaborate with the design and product teams to implement user-friendly and visually appealing interfaces
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs to support front-end functionality
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Troubleshoot and debug issues to improve application performance and user experience
- Secure and protect public and private applications from viruses and malicious web activity
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in web development
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and adherence to development standards
- Contribute to the development of technical documentation and user guides
Who you are:
We are building a diverse team of talented and motivated people who deeply understand business problems and enjoy solving them. You are a self-starter who loves working with data to build analytical tools that business users can leverage daily to do their jobs better. You are passionate about contributing to a growing team and establishing best practices.
As a Lead Applications Engineer, you will be expected to work independently on client engagements or to collaborate with a small team on project delivery, take part in the development of our practice, aid in business development, and contribute innovative ideas and initiatives to our company.
- Degree educated in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
- Experience with managing stakeholders and collaborating with customers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required
- 7+ years working with application development; both frontend and backend
- 5+ years client facing consulting experience
- Proven experience as a Full-Stack Developer, Applications Engineer, or similar role
- Proficiency in React and Angular frameworks
- Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS (including Tailwindcss)
- Experience with Vite, Next.JS, React-Native, or comparable framework
- Familiarity with developing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Understanding of version control systems, preferably Git
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication and teamwork abilities
- Ability to manage an individual workstream independently and ability to manage a small 1–2-person team
- Expertise in software engineering concepts and best practices
- DevOps experience preferred
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) preferred
- Experience working in database and/or data warehouse environments (e.g. data modelling)
- Consulting experience strongly preferred
- Willingness to travel
This position is fully remote; however, Atlanta-based applicants will have the opportunity to work in our headquarters in Sandy Springs, GA.
