Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Lead Software Engineer working with diverse tools to develop customer-centric banking applications. Contributing to software development lifecycle in a hybrid working environment from Chester or Manchester.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle to design, build and deliver maintainable, testable, observable and resilient software systems.
- Provide clear technical direction and take the lead.
- Line manage and coach a feature team with responsibility for up to 10 engineers.
- Work closely with your team and the wider product and engineering group to build effective working relationships and deliver product-led solutions.
- Define and champion new tooling, principles, practices and patterns.
- Encourage and lead comprehensive solution design.
- Working in agile environments, participating in Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, and using tools like JIRA
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience in the full software development lifecycle working with at least two of the following languages and frameworks (Java 17+, React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Spring Boot and relational databases)
- Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs.
- Strong experience of test first development and unit testing with modern testing frameworks and tools such as Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library, Pact, Cypress and Playwright.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and build pipelines, using tools such as Github, Harness, Jenkins, Docker, ELK, Grafana and Dynatrace.
- Take ownership and responsibility for the lifespan of the things you contribute to.
- A “you build it, you run it” attitude.
- Experience in managing engineers to deliver and helping them learn and grow.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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