Lead Engineer

Join us as a Lead Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Lead Engineer to join us and lead the technical delivery of a feature team.
• You'll be responsible for leading solution design options and explaining the pros and cons to key stakeholders for appropriate decision making.
• Hone your existing technical skills and advance your career in this innovative and challenging role.
• Monitoring the technical progress against plans, while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance and providing updates to stakeholders.
• Supporting and mentoring the team in the understanding of relevant software languages and technical domains.
• Driving the adoption of solution design and software engineering principles, processes and best practices.
• Liaising with engineers, architects, technical specialist analysts, business analysts and other key stakeholders to understand the objectives, requirements and options.
• Designing and developing high-volume, high-performance and high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies.
• The ability to develop solution designs in an SOA or micro-services paradigm.
• Development experience in a programming language.
• Experience of using industry recognised frameworks and development tooling.
• A background of implementing software and solution design best-practice, especially around scalability, security, availability and performance.
• Experience of working in an environment where products must be delivered to specific timescales.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age