What you'll be doing

Our team has grown fast over the last year and we're creating the role of Lead Back End Developer who can help us continue to disrupt the market with innovative products, while balancing the needs of our existing customers.

We are looking for someone with experience delivering features and developments for SaaS products. You'll be liaising with Delivery Managers, Product Managers and Senior Engineers to review squad plans and solutions. You will be line managing Back End Developers and helping to build a developer community that ensures we continue to evolve our best practices and drive the technical road map.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and support to BE Developers, supporting them to deliver features to scope against dependable estimates

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to identify priorities and ensure best preparation is made for the technical roadmap

• Evolve BE best practices and ensure an appropriate approach to the estimation, development and testing of items for delivery

• Strengthen and develop the BE Developer community, actively participating in the leadership of and contribution to the BE Developer Guild

• Line management of BE Developers, ensuring they have personal development plans with clear goals and regular 121s

• Supporting squads during sprints to ensure the smooth delivery of incremental improvements

What we're looking for

Essentials

• Expert at developing microservices, ideally using NodeJS

• Experience of using a typed Javascript language such as Typescript

• Thorough understanding of REST, GraphQL, asynchronous messaging and data formats such as JSON

• Familiarity with NoSQL databases including Elasticsearch and MongoDB

• Accomplished with automated testing, writing unit tests, and considering test coverage

• Deep understanding of CI/CD approaches

• Strong communication and leadership skills

• Skilled in reviewing and creating technical documentation

• Seasoned in leading, managing or mentoring other developers

• Ability and willingness to proactively improve ways of working and processes

• Comfortable working as part of remote team

• Desire to continually grow, develop and improve

• A pragmatic approach to resolving issues and responding to change

• Working on enterprise grade SaaS platforms

Desirable skills

• Experience implementing web apps using React and Redux

• Experience working with AWS services, ideally including Cloudformation

• Experience of Continuous Integration and Deployment

• Experience working with Agile methodologies

• Appreciation of DevOps principles

• Working knowledge of Docker or other container technology

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