Job Description

Requirements



As a Lead Software Engineer, you will

• Provide leadership and direction to a small team of software engineers delivering new features, improving existing features, prototyping new applications, improving our SaaS infrastructure, developing in-house tools or integrating with partner services.


• Manage project progress to ensure timely delivery of planned features. Deal with impediments on behalf of team members.


• Coordinate software design/development activities in overlapping subsystems with other teams.


• Take responsibility for the output of the team and report on progress and issues to senior management.


• Work with other managers to attract, hire, on-board, develop, motivate and coach Software Engineers.


• Design, implement and test new components, products and integrations.


• Diagnose problems seen in production and advise on solutions.


• Work with the infrastructure team to clarify and communicate infrastructure impact.


• Work in a virtualized environment using docker and kubernetes to create, and manage the provisioning of the services.


• Develop expertise in diverse technical and business domains.


• Expand your knowledge of programming languages and technical stacks.


• Provide technical leadership to other engineers in your field of expertise.


• Progress the state of the art in your field within the company.



 

• 3+ years commercial experience designing and writing well-tested Java.


• BSc (or equivalent) in a technical subject (comp.sci./science/engineering).


• Experience in some of our core languages (Java, PHP, JS, Go, SQL).


• Experience designing concurrent and distributed applications.


• Experience designing SQL schema for transaction processing systems.


• Track record of building reliable, scalable, maintainable, data-intensive applications.


• Good understanding of network and application comms protocols (TCP, HTTP, REST).


• Deep understanding of dependency management and modern build systems.


• Good understanding of how SaaS applications are hosted and provisioned.

• 5+ years industry experience.


• 1 year or more in a mentoring role.


• An attitude of continual improvement, lifelong learning and an interest in new technologies.


• A lead-by-example approach and a team motivator.


• Ability to assess the relative merits of different languages and technologies according to requirements.


• Motivation to create high quality products within the eCommerce domain.


• Ability to build healthy working environments.


• Fluent in English. Proven communicator with business stakeholders.


• Understanding of task scheduling/collaboration concerns.

• A good team player capable of delivering excellent results under pressure and to strict deadlines.


• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and occasionally clients.


• Keen to share knowledge and expertise with other team members.


• Quality focused.



 

• Practical experience with search-optimised data stores (preferably the Elastic stack).


• Working experience of other storage technologies (e.g mongodb, Cassandra).


• Background in high scale systems development.


• Experience with queuing technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ).


• History of performance tuning and optimisation.


• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.


• A robust understanding of automatic code testing and development in CI and CD contexts.


• Experience using Cucumber or equivalent for end to end testing.


• Experience with the Continuous Delivery and DevOps styles of development.


• Familiarity with tools to provision cloud infrastructure (esp. terraform).