Lead Software Engineer

Description:

As Lead Engineer, you’ll be working across multiple small teams (3-5) within a domain (tribe), to galvanise and lead that domains (tribe) engineering teams in terms of purpose, quality, direction and culture.

The role is a senior leader and influencer who will focus as much time on the technical direction or the teams, as on the strategic elements – working with product owners/managers, other engineering managers, Principal Software Engineer and other senior state holders to understand and drive that domain forward in terms growth, technology, skills and capabilities.

You’ll be comfortable writing code and keeping hands on as much as providing thought and direction leadership to product managers, defining and shaping the teams structure, skills and recruitment.

This is a key role in leading, shaping and driving forward our software engineering practise.

We work almost exclusively within the native cloud space, leveraging the AWS platform and an ecosystem of external SaaS components. Architecturally we strive to be "serverless first", where practical, and recognise and use containerization where necessary.

Our core working methods are based around modern DevOps process; shift-left, test automation, SRE, CICD, and "everything as code" mindset.

A high-level view of our tech stack is:

• AWS tools and resources inc; CodeBuild/CodePipeline, IAM, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, Cloudformation, Step Functions, DDB, Cognito, API Gateway, S3+Cloudfront hosting
• CI/CD with Github/CodeBuild/CodePipeline
• Front-end; ReactJS with styled components / StoryBook
• ReactNative for web and mobile
• Languages; right tool for the job!, but typically JS/TS, and Python.
• IaC; Terraform, Serverless Framework and SAM
• Ops; CloudWatch, NewRelic
• Test; Jest, Cypress, Cucumber.