Software Engineering Lead

August 22

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Description

• Responsible for leading a small software engineering team (up to 4/5 engineers) in building enterprise level solutions (estimated 60% hands-on coding) and influencing code quality and stability • Lead and ensure your team are working as a cohesive unit aligned to the principles and philosophy of the City Electric IT strategy and Ways of Working • Champion and drive forward the creation of a culture in which employees take responsibility, help each other to be successful and remain a step ahead • Manage the performance review process for your team through 1-2-1s, objective setting, mentoring and coaching • Work with the delivery lead(s) around capacity planning, technical delivery requirements and quality standards • Collaborate with the other Software Engineer Leads and the QA team to collectively agree the scope and impact of all new initiatives within the department. • Work with the Software Engineering Managers to create and establish an AWS and Serverless Academy to ensure there is a consistent and best practice process for staff cross training • Collaborate with the other Software Engineering Leads to collectively agree on standardised engineering tools and standards, i.e. coding standards, code reviews and pull requests amongst others • Ensure that all your team members have a clear understanding of the overall system architecture and design components • Work with the Software Engineering Manager around recruitment in terms of your team needs and helping with the holistic process from start to finish, including the onboarding and probation process

Requirements

• Proficient in TypeScript development • Expertise in AWS services within a serverless-first, microservices-oriented architecture, including but not limited to: • Compute: Lambda, ECS, Fargate, EC2 • Storage: S3, DynamoDB, RDS • API Management: API Gateway, AppSync • Orchestration: Step Functions, EventBridge • Security: IAM, Cognito, Secrets Manager, KMS • Networking: VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, Load Balancers • Experience using Git/GitLab and proficiency in CI/CD pipelines • Experience with front-end frameworks such as Vue, React or Next.js would be desirable

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary • Annual IT Bonus scheme • Our teams predominantly work remotely but we have an award-winning IT Headquarters based in Durham where you’ll always receive a warm welcome! • Pension: 5% employee / 3% employer (Total 8%) • Champion Health – a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life • Free use of the state-of-the-art private gym at our IT Headquarters