Lead Software Engineer - Java and Node
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Area | Leeds, United Kingdom |
| Sector | IT |
| Start Date | |
| Job Ref | PH9558 |
- Description
Salary: £65,000 + benefits including Pension, Bonus, Gym Membership, Healthcare/Dental, Childcare Vouchers
Fantastic opportunity with a well-renowned brand. As Lead Software Engineer you will lead a multi-disciplinary team of highly skilled individuals. In collaboration with the Product Owner and the Solution Architect, you will lead the delivery of high quality products to production, ensuring your team focuses on the highest priorities.
Non-negotiable requirements
· Java Script/Node
· Lead experience, will initially lead a team of 6 growing to 8
· 4+ years’ experience in a high demand & high availability environments – you MUST have experience with very high traffic coming through a website
Kotlin would be an advantage but not a key requirement.
Often running ahead to explore new market opportunities, your team will focus on rapid prototyping as well as more strategic services around betting. You will directly support the traders who use your services, including supporting an on-call rota.
You are self-motivated and willing to contribute at all levels, listening and learning from the talented people around you. You have an eye on the bigger picture and can plan ahead so there are no last minute surprises. You care about energizing your team to deliver fantastic services for customers.
You will line manage six Software Engineers in the team and be responsible for their career development. The company mission is to create the best place their people have ever worked at, and they need you to help them achieve this.
Reporting to an Engineering Manager, you will:
· Line manage and coach the Software Engineers in the team
· Encourage team members to lead initiatives and develop themselves
· Work with the team to drive best practices and technical improvements in the team
· Work with the Engineering Manager to recruit the best engineers for your team
· Work with your Product Owner to determine the best way to deliver the roadmap
· Lead by example on transparent communication, ensuring that business expectations are always set realistically
· Champion, maintain and uphold the SDLC, and drive improvements to working practices
· Lead on inceptions and elaboration of work
· You will need to demonstrate good understanding of Java and ideally, AWS native technologies; and be comfortable with techniques such as message queues, data stores and know what makes a good RESTful API
How the company works:
· They do gambling. They don’t have a high-pressure, competitive environment. Your colleagues want you to succeed as much as you do
· They encourage team autonomy. If you don’t like the way something is done, do something about it!
· Friday afternoons are your personal learning and development sessions. Use this time to spend your £1000 Tech Ninja fund, collaborate with your colleagues
· The engineers work closely with colleagues in all positions, so a high level of interpersonal skill is important to them. Everyone in the team needs to understand the goal for the week
· They are not building a monolithic enterprise app - think micro-services and a lean approach with quick running tests, automation and deployment
· They promote incremental deliveries: giving value to the business quickly through feature-based delivery, observing and adapting as you go
· They value previous experience developing for high-demand & high-availability environments
What the team do
Trading is at the heart of the action for all their data. Their time-critical systems need to be able to handle large influxes of data, whilst keeping latency to a minimum - their exposure to in-play betting risks depends on it. Using technologies such as Java, Node, React, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka and native AWS components, they process and assess incoming data, allowing traders to make on-the-fly decisions about how they price their offerings, whether that's a future event or an in-play Request A Bet (RAB). The environment is Agile but their engineering practices need to be sound. They get audited from multiple directions so they need to be sure they have a robust SDLC and a strong focus on security.
Job Title: Lead Software Engineer - Java and Node
Location: Leeds – RELOCATION PACKAGE is available
Salary: £65,000 + benefits including Pension, Bonus, Gym Membership, Healthcare/Dental, Childcare Vouchers
Hours of work: Flexibility, office based with one day a week working from home once embedded into the role
Job Type: Permanent
Job Reference: PH9558
Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this role
