Lead Software Engineer

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Lead Software Engineer - Fully Remote - £75K What will you do?As a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer, you will either be part of a cross-functional team or a practice team and together with your team you will own the software products from conception to operation, or you will work across multiple teams, supporting them and their stakeholders in building great technology. Being an enthusiast, an expert practitioner and thought leader in software engineering and software craftsmanship. Thanks to your excellent collaboration skills you will support your team, or teams, in delivering the best answers to our customers' needs and in taking over full responsibility for its applications, from design to operation. With your outstanding skillset for understanding, investigating and solving problems you take full ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes spanning across the domain.

You strive for clean architecture, state-of-the-art implementation, a high degree of automation, and overall high quality with a customer-centric mindset. You select, and guide teams to use, the right tools for the job and thus solve the given business and technical problems in an efficient way. You show an advanced commercial mentality, focusing on solving business problems in the best way in close collaboration with stakeholders. You actively contribute to the overall engineering and architecture strategy for your area and/or domain.

You work in a cloud environment, especially AWS, developing resilient and high-performing cloud-native applications. You have a deep understanding of the AWS toolbox, leveraging AWS services and cloud design patterns in a micro-service and micro-frontend landscape. You tackle the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying software and contribute to increasing automation. You actively promote the company's ABCDCS principles (API first, Big Data, Cloud-native, DevOps mindset, Security) within your community and beyond.

You are able to clearly verbalise your thoughts/ideas and you take the initiative to translate ideas into outcomes. You are comfortable to represent the company in various events, conferences and meetups. You publish or contribute to articles, blog posts and thought leadership pieces on a range of engineering topics in your area of expertise. You are well-connected across the domain, within the broader the company's community and relevant Communities of Practice.

As a recognised thought leader in your subject matter area, you publish articles (e.g. on sites like medium.com, css-tricks.com or thehackernews.com) and are actively engaged in the open-source community through source commits and similar contributions. You are presenting to different audiences at internal and external events/conferences and are a regular networker, building useful expert contacts across the industry.

Being an expert, you actively and systematically share your knowledge, for example by mentoring junior to senior colleagues and supporting their professional development. This includes shaping and managing the technical training paths for engineers across the organisation. Together with the domain's Practice teams as well as the Group Enabler teams you also will research, evaluate, and test new approaches, processes and tools and help teams to use them effectively.

You love to work in an international, multi-cultural team. You challenge constructively and have high expectations of yourself and others. You always drive for technical excellence, ownership and self-organisation at team and personal level. You love to learn and acquire new skills and put significant effort into keeping up to date with latest developments in your focus areas. What are we looking for?

Outstanding expertise in the JavaScript language (e.g. ES6/7/8/next, Typescript) as well as its ecosystem and tooling. Strong experience with at least two recent JavaScript frameworks.Deep knowledge of HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, as well as general understanding of UI design.Excellent knowledge of applying web delivery design principles for websites and web applications for a positive user experience.Deep understanding of frontend performance aspects, analysis and optimisation.Excellent proficiency in either NodeJS or Go or Java, and their respective ecosystems (frameworks, libraries, documentation, useful resources) as well as architectural strategies and design patterns.Deep experience with implementing resource-oriented APIs and event-based architectures.Strong experience with data persistence, both relational and non-relational technologies, preferably applied in a cloud-native context.Deep expertise in CI/CD (preferably Gitlab CI), infrastructure as code, cloud architecture/design, tools and services on AWS. Ideally certified AWS Associate or higher.Good understanding of different areas of software architecture (technical, solution, enterprise, cloud/infrastructure, etc.).Able to apply decision strategies and make good decisions in context of complex objectives.The ability to explore, investigate, discuss, and negotiate stakeholder requirements.Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services.Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams. Ability to advance existing implementations and processes at all stages of the software engineering lifecycle.Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills.Active member of relevant industry communities, interest groups and meetups. Track record as speaker, author and/or open-source contributor.Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills.Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering.Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner. Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.