Job Description
Global Impact Role High flexibility and work on leading edge tech About Our Client The employer is a large organization in the business services industry, specializing in providing tailored solutions to clients. The company is known for its focus on technology-driven innovations and its commitment to delivering high-quality services. Job Description * Lead the Design & Development - Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software solutions, covering both client-side and server-side applications. * Technical Leadership - Guide the squad in technical decision-making, ensuring the team follows best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance. * Hands-On Engineering - Spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software. * Full Stack Development - Build any necessary user-interfaces in collaboration with our UX team, and develop well-functioning APIs, and services. * Mentorship & Coaching - Support and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence. * Cloud & Infrastructure - Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads. * Quality & Testing - Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD, ensuring deployments are secure and reliable. The Successful Applicant A successful Lead Engineer should have: * Tech stack - We use TypeScript (Node.js & React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo. You're comfortable with all of these, and have extensive knowledge of JavaScript more generally, the AWS ecosystem, and running containerised applications. * Past Experience - You are currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers. * API & Database Development - You have experience building and running robust, always-on APIs (both RESTful and GraphQL-based) and underlying services/apps including the databases that underpin them. * Test-Driven Development - You're very familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact. * Cloud & DevOps - You can build, deploy and run your systems end-to-end, with no manual configuration or intervention. We use Terraform and Helm. * CI/CD - You have plenty experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for deployments. * Observability Mindset - You believe in measuring everything. You've worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure your team has the necessary visibility into system health. * Tooling & Collaboration - Comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows. * Mentorship & Leadership - You've mentored engineers at all levels, providing guidance, reviewing designs, and ensuring your team stays on the right track. * Self-Starter & Problem-Solver - Ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution, balancing pragmatism with engineering excellence. What's on Offer Competitive salary based on skills and experience. Comprehensive holiday leave and benefits package. Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies in the business services industry. Supportive work culture that encourages professional growth. Permanent position offering job security and stability. If you are passionate about technology and are looking for a challenging role in the business services industry, we encourage you to apply for the Lead Engineer position.
