Software Engineering Team Lead

We have an opportunity for a Software Engineering Team Lead to join the team working with our well known household name client. We want someone who cares about creating performant and accessible applications, values communication and collaborative approaches to finding the right solution and is willing and excited to learn new skills and share their knowledge with others.

We work closely with our client teams and the Engineering community as a whole is a dynamic and supportive one and there are frequent opportunities to collaborate with other teams. Our Engineers are all encouraged to do 10% time, which typically takes the form of a "hackday" every two weeks where they can work on pet projects and personal development. Engineers are also encouraged to participate in "Guilds" - cross-department initiatives where individuals from different teams collaborate on shared problems such as Security, CI/CD or Documentation.

Main Responsibilities

As a Team Lead, you will act as a leader and mentor to a team of software engineers and be dedicated to building a collaborative culture.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead a team of approx five-six software engineers working on our suite of microservices
• Drive technical direction and decision-making
• Mentor other engineers
• Develop exciting new features
• Build out the infrastructure on AWS
• Learn new technologies and techniques
• Advise product managers and project managers on the complexities of planned work, including providing time and resource estimates in the planning of projects

Are you the right candidate?

The successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Knowledge and experience of API development using Scala or Java
• Developing on the cloud, especially AWS
• Experience of writing unit tests and TDD

It would be advantageous to have:

• Experience of working with Play, Spray, Akka
• Familiarity with version control systems (we use Git)
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and build systems (we use Jenkins)
• Experience of project and issue tracking tools (we use Jira)
• Love of radio and music

To apply for the Sales Specialist please send your CV to Christine.mclaren@projectpeople.com

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Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.