Lead Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Engage and lead development initiatives across globally distributed software teams.

• Ensure that global applications are suitable for international markets.

• Demonstrate the ability to organize, prioritize, and multitask while coordinating team efforts and reporting progress to stakeholders and management.

• Collaborate with various stakeholders to gather comprehensive information regarding the challenges at hand and implement short- to mid-term strategies to enhance products for future success (UX / Design / Product / PMO, etc.).

• Objectively assess multiple approaches and recommend the optimal technical direction supported by logic and reasoning.

• Actively participate in the design of service layer architecture.

• Produce high-quality code.

• Take ownership of the complete development and deployment cycle for your software.

• Foster and develop the skills of fellow developers.

• Troubleshoot and resolve production application issues, often those not directly related to your work.

• Automate testing, deployments, performance monitoring, and recovery processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in lead engineering and development roles.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

• Strong backend development expertise.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement clean, scalable, and well-structured APIs.

• Experience with Java 17+ or other JVM languages.

• Proficiency in modern frameworks such as Spring Boot.

• Experience in Test-Driven Development.

• Knowledge of Continuous Integration practices.

• Understanding of contemporary software architectural trends and practices.

• Prior experience with Design Patterns and SOLID principles.

• Experience with AWS or other cloud service providers.

• Familiarity with CI/CD servers (GitLab/Jenkins).

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other orchestration/scheduling frameworks.

• Experience in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development environment.

• Working knowledge of one or more database systems (e.g., Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous vacation policy.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.

• Retirement benefits.

• Student loan repayment assistance.

• Tuition reimbursement opportunities.

• Six months of paid caregiver leave for new parents, including those fostering.

• Access to free live events through our exclusive employee ticketing program.