Responsibilities

Octave is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our team in our United States team responsible for leading the development, maintenance, and optimization of ETQ web applications and services. 

The Full Stack Lead Engineer combines deep technical skills with strong leadership to drive the delivery of high-quality web applications and services. This role is responsible for leading the design, development, maintenance, and optimization of solutions across the full technology stack frontend, backend, integrations, and data and making sound architectural decisions that support scalability, resilience, and security.

2.0 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Lean into challenges with problem-solving mindset instead of waiting for perfect requirements or direction.

· Act as a force-multiplier for the team by coaching, pairing, and giving actionable feedback that helps others grow their skills and confidence.

· Demonstrate a bias for action while still exercising good judgment and raising risks early when you see them.

· Model high standards in code quality, documentation, and testing, and help the team hold the same bar without being dogmatic.

· Design, implement, and ship customer-facing features end-to-end that meet agreed acceptance criteria and UX/design specifications.

· Collaborate with Product, UX, QA, and other engineers in an Agile/Scrum setup to refine requirements and break work into deliverable slices.

· Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of backend services and frontend components.

· Apply TDD/TFD/BDD practices pragmatically to keep the codebase robust, testable, and easy to change.

· Write clean, secure, and well-structured code that follows modern engineering best practices and team standards.

· Contribute across the full stack: APIs, services, data access, and web UI (and occasionally mobile/web-hybrid where needed).

· Build and optimize systems for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency in a cloud environment.

· Troubleshoot, debug, and refactor existing components and services to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability.

· Evaluate and introduce appropriate new tools, frameworks, and patterns that improve developer productivity and application quality.

· Provide clear, high-quality updates on work items (e.g., tickets), including scope, rationale for changes, and impacted areas.

· Work effectively with distributed teams and stakeholders across multiple time zones.

· Develop, modify, and maintain modern web applications using Angular (or similar frameworks), JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3; integrate these with backend APIs and services.

· Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines, code review practices, and other engineering workflows that support fast, safe delivery.

Education / Qualifications

• · 12+ years of experience in mainly Java & Python or equivalent back-end programming language.

  · 1+ years of experience of formal or informal technical leadership

  · Excellent understanding of object-oriented programming and design.

  · Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications.

  · Excellent knowledge of coding best practices and design patterns.

  · Good Experience with TDD/TFD/BDD.

  · Hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks such as AngularJS or React.

  · Experience with Integrating applications and services using different approaches according to the use case.

  · Excellent experience with writing, modifying & troubleshooting Restful APIs.

  · Strong understanding of Relational Databases (RDMS) and referential integrity.

  · Excellent experience with creating, modifying and optimizing SQL queries.

  · Experience with version control systems.

  · Experience with secure coding practices.

  · Strong problem-solving skills.

  · Excellent communication skills, verbal, and written with the ability to converse effectively at all levels within the organization.

  · Good knowledge/experience of Amazon Web Services and/or Azure or Google Cloud Platform.

Required Mindset & Leadership:

· Demonstrated willingness to take end-to-end ownership of features and systems, not just individual tasks.

· Growth mindset: actively seeks feedback, learns from mistakes, and continuously improves.

· Proven ability to lift others up mentoring, pairing, and sharing knowledge to help the team grow.

· “One team” mentality: avoids “not my job,” collaborates across roles and time zones, and helps wherever the work is.

· Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping to shape requirements, not just implement them.

Desired:

· Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related technical discipline.

· Experience with database migrations, particularly AWS DMS a big plus.

· SQLines experience would be a plus.

· Experience developing cross-browser and cross-platform compatible solutions.

· Experience and with CI/CD technologies (Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet/Chef/Ansible, Jenkins, etc.)

· Experience with a highly available and scalable SaaS solution

· Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains AI Assistant) to improve code quality, test coverage, and delivery speed.
· Experience integrating LLM-based services and APIs (e.g., OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI) into applications or internal tooling.

Hexagon will not sponsor applicants for a work visa for this position.

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About Octave:

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option. 

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most. 

Octave has approximately 7,200 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn. 

Why work for Octave?

All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome

At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.