Lead Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Engage in and spearhead development initiatives across software teams located worldwide.

• Ensure that global applications are suitable for international markets.

• Capable of organizing and prioritizing tasks; multitasking while coordinating team activities and reporting progress to stakeholders and management.

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

• Objectively evaluate multiple approaches and suggest the most appropriate technical direction, backed by logic and reasoning.

• Actively participate in the design of service layer architecture.

• Develop spikes and prototypes.

• Produce high-quality code.

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

• Foster the growth of developers in their craft.

• Diagnose and resolve production application issues, often unrelated to your own work.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading engineering and development efforts.

• Proficiency in Agile methodologies.

• Strong skills in backend development.

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

• Experience with Java 17+ or other JVM languages.

• Familiarity with modern frameworks such as Spring Boot.

• Experience in Test-Driven Development.

• Knowledge of Continuous Integration practices.

• Understanding of current trends and practices in software architecture.

• Prior experience with Design Patterns and SOLID principles.

• Experience working with AWS or another Cloud Provider.

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

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

• Experience in an SOA development environment.

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

• Desirable: Experience in DevOps.

• Familiarity with the Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk stack.

• Experience with Databricks or Spark.

• Experience working with Terraform.

• Familiarity with the Helm package manager.

• Experience with distributed systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours.

• Opportunities for professional development.