Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software EngineerTech: AWS Microservices, NodeJS, ReactJSWhy? 1st in-house Developer or Engineer; ownership and autonomy of building team and leading technical projectsLocation: Hybrid Altrincham office 2-3 days a weekSalary: £50,000 - £60,000 + benefits

• Do you have 5+ years' experience working with modern AWS Microservices?
• Are you a mid - senior developer or engineer looking to take a step into a Lead role?
• Do you want to help build a development team?

Our client is a leading software vendor who optimise customer resolutions throughout their lifecycle and help teams deliver hundreds of dynamic journeys that allow self-service. Cloud native, modular and white-label by design, they pride ourselves on building technology that empowers collection teams to customise engagements within weeks.

They are looking for an engineering team lead to join their team to augment the existing outsourced engineering function and in-house technical team. This is an exciting opportunity to be the 1st in-house Developer or Engineer to take ownership and autonomy for future growth, projects, and key success.

Lead Software Engineer Responsibilities

• Support existing outsourced engineering function and build in-house technical team
• Lead technical projects, initiatives, code reviews, and development
• Mentor / coach other developers and team members
• Build relationships internally with Senior Leaders to support BAU and Greenfield projects

Lead Software Engineer Requirements

• 5+ years of hands on experience of tech stack or similar
• Experience leading technical projects and code reviews, mentoring or upskilling other developers
• Solid programming experience in modern web technologies and services
• Strong understanding of NodeJS and React (similar frameworks are acceptable)
• Experience of AWS API Gateway / Lambda using the serverless (or similar) framework
• Experience of agile development practices and using Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) or similar
• Experience with Git or at least a similar distributed source control and build pipeline and automated deployment tools
• Comfortable with relational and non-relational databases
• Ideally will have worked with outsourced development teams

For more information, please contact Katie at Matched.

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