Lead Engineer (12036) in London

The lead engineer will be a key member of a product squad. The role will require you to:

·       Design and deliver functional and quality software independently at a very high standard.

·       Be able to operate independently without any technical oversight, leading design of software across a subset of functional areas.

·       Work closely with Product Managers, TPM and other development teams to deliver software.

·       Break large problems into sub-tasks and take operational responsibility.

·       Continuously iterative and improve on the platforms/products/features being built working with product manager and with the other engineers

·       Mentor new hires, champion processes and set standards for fellow engineering team members.

·       Lead on the various features being built as part of the product roadmap in a team.

·       Own the development and rollout for an entire product or large project.

·       Serve as a technology lead, championing processes and setting standards for fellow engineering team members.

·       Build and review engineering design documentation.

·       Identify risks ahead of major project kick offs starting

·       A Degree or equivalent exposure to programming

·       Sound software development experience in a technology organisation with a strong background in one or more of the following Java, Kotlin, Python.

·       Strong Experience developing and working in a virtualized environment.

·       Strong Experience using container based APIs including Docker, Docker Swarm, or Kubernetes.

·       Strong Experience implementing scalable software systems and platforms.  Experience with software optimisation.

·       Demonstrated mastery of a particular aspect of retail technology (i.e; inventory management, UX development, performance testing, data integrity)

·       Strong Experience with unit and integration testing

·       Strong Experience in building microservices : APIs, event-driven with a choice of SQL or NoSQL data store

·       Strong Experience with DevOps concepts & working on CI/CD

·       Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams.

·       Experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog, Airflow

·       Experience with DevOps concepts & working on CI/CD

·       Experience in building reliable, monitored and maintainable systems

·       Agile/scrum development experience.  Embraces Agile and encourages other to embrace and agile way of working

·       Experience with cloud computing, ideally AWS

·       Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams.

·       Ability to solve problems and think across different scales from the strategic right down to the code optimisation and debugging level

·       Ability to separate essential complexity from incidental complexity and a desire to reduce complexity

We offer a flexible, home-based working model. We have offices in Nuneaton and London, but you will not be required to be office-based.

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