Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Software Engineer developing and maintaining enterprise-grade full stack web applications to prevent fraud at Smartnumbers. Work in an agile team using modern technologies and methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Work in a small, agile team of software engineers developing and maintaining a large, enterprise grade, full stack web application deployed on AWS.
- Use front end technologies like Typescript, React (Storybook, Webcomponents), Angular (NgRx, RxJS), Material UI, Cypress/Playwright (E2E & Integration Testing).
- Work with back end technologies like Typescript, AWS services (Lambda/NodeJS, Fargate/Docker, EC2), Asynchronous Processing, Datastores and Indexing, APIs and CDNs, Data Analytics, and supporting services.
- Engage in development principles like Event driven systems design, TDD, BDD, REST & GraphQL API design, Single-table database design, SOLID principles, and best practices around non-functional requirements.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years' experience working within a cross-functional software development team.
- Strong full stack software development skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication (English)
- Open collaboration with engineering and broader business teams
- Receptive to feedback, learning and self-development
- Attention to detail with drive for delivering the highest quality of work.
- Strong preference for AWS working within a public cloud environment.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (preference for CloudFormation, AWS CDK) and DevOps processes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker, ECS, Fargate are preferred).
- Good understanding of agile principles and methodologies (Kanban preferred).
- Experience working with front-end technologies (particularly React, Angular).
- Experience using AI tooling such as Copilot, Claude Code for code generation or automation tasks.
Benefits
- Hybrid working style, with the expectation of two days in the office (with a great City of London office base!)
- Family friendly benefits including paid parental leave policies
- An extensive health insurance policy for you, with an option to add your family members
- A workplace pension with Aegon
- Life insurance of 4 x your salary
- A discretionary annual bonus of up to 10% of your salary
- Weekly self-development time to spend exploring your professional development interests
- 25 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), your birthday off, and an opportunity to buy up to 5 days annual leave per year
- A holistic wellbeing support plan encompassing a variety of offerings to assist you.
- We provide you with a monthly £50 allowance to fund activities to best support your wellbeing as well as workshops and training to provide tools and guidance.
- Additionally, there is a wide-ranging employee assistance programme available to advise on personal, family or financial matters, and also fun social events during the year.
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