Lead Backend Software Engineer

​My client is looking to recruit a passionate Lead Backend Software Engineer who is experienced with the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), change management, and modern tools and pipelines.

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The ideal candidate will have scaffolded applications from scratch, deployed them to production, and managed/mentored junior and mid-level full-stack software engineers.

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We're open to someone who is technology agnostic who is excited by the prospect of working with new and latest technologies. The successful candidate will be able to lead a small but growing team of software engineers, act as a technical lead and be comfortable developing exciting greenfield solutions.

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Responsibilities:

• Hands-on lead, managing a tribe focused on backend technologies.

• Create, migrate, and maintain new features following ATDD and BDD methodology

• Show creativity and initiative to improve product test coverage and effectiveness.

• Reinforce development best practices for quality assurance, security, and deployment.

• Instill and drive a delivery-focused culture while promoting a fun hardworking workplace.

• Contribute to research and the design of new systems.

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Required skills:

• Near fluent English speaking, reading, and writing ability.

• BSc Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar

• 5+ years professional experience focused on backend engineering and system design

• 2+ years of experience working as a lead/architect building enterprise web applications.

• Strong operational experience. Ideally in a 24x7 SaaS environment

• Strong experience with some of the following: video streaming; scalable SQL; tuning distributed systems; DevOps at scale Strong experience in writing TypeScript and other pre/post processors such as WebPack

• Strong experience in Node.JS, Express, TypeORM, and SQL

• Strong experience integrating with React 16+, Android, and iOS applications (e.g. REST, Socket.IO)

• Strong experience in architecting role-based authorization, MFA, and multi-tenant systems

• Strong experience in monitoring systems such as Callstats, New Relic, Datadog, etc

• Strong experience in Docker and container-based services such as Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, etc

• Understand and facilitate micro frontends, component driven development

• Experience in several testing frameworks and tools such as Swagger, BrowserStack, Jest, Cypress

• Experience in Git, Git Flow, and other code management tools

• Experience in Continuous integration tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, etc

• Experience in backlog management, code reviews, pull-requests, paired programming

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Desired skills:

• Experience in augmented reality and WebGL

• Experience in Nx/Nwrl monorepo architecture

• Experience with WebRTC

• Experience in C++, WebAssembly and integrating other NDK’s

• Certified in AWS or Azure

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Salary: £90,000 - £110,000 Per annum