About the role

  • Own your teams’ architecture, aligning with the vertical's Principal Engineers on a common technical strategy.
  • Take ownership of a team’s operational excellence, taking a hands on approach to the resolution of the teams’ most complex issues when needed.
  • Write simple code, taking complex paradigms and implementing them in a way that Engineers at all levels can understand and contribute to.
  • Insist on high standards for code quality while not letting perfection be the enemy of good.
  • Influence the strategy of the team(s), helping them understand how to make technical trade-off decisions between short-term business needs and long-term technology needs.
  • Drive engineering engagement best practices (e.g., AI, Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards for your vertical.
  • Help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in your organisation.
  • Contribute to the professional development of Engineers within the vertical, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
  • Support our software as part of an on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Expert level experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
  • Experience influencing technical decisions across 1-2 agile engineering teams.
  • Understand a broad range of complex data structures and complex algorithms.
  • Expert level understanding of design patterns and architectural principles.
  • Experienced in making pragmatic trade-off decisions between short term needs and long-term needs.
  • Experienced in many modern programming languages (ideally Java).
  • Proven experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and available backend systems & APIs using Java SE and/or Java EE: beans, concurrency, transactions, I/O, servlets, messaging, application monitoring, ORM (Hibernate, JPA);
  • Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems - build tools (e.g. BuildKite, Maven, Gradle), version control (e.g. git) and continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins).
  • Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
  • A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Hands-on experience with unit testing/mocking frameworks (e.g. junit, mockito).
  • Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
  • Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices.
  • Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC.
  • Desire to learn and develop your skills through a growth mindset.
  • Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change.
  • Experience with using AI coding assistants and agentic models such as CoPilot, Cursor in a business setting
  • Exposure to Linux operating systems.
  • Experience using non relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase).
  • Familiarity with AWS / Cloud Computing (e.g. S3, SQS, SNS);
  • Experience with analysis & monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, NewRelic);
  • Contact with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka);
  • Container experience (e.g. Docker);
  • Knowledge of caching systems (e.g. Redis);
  • Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies and supporting tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence.

Benefits

  • Hybrid & remote working options
  • €1,000 per year for self-development
  • Company share scheme
  • 25 days of annual leave per year
  • 20 days per year to work abroad
  • 5 personal days/year
  • Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
  • Extended health, dental and travel insurances
  • Customized well-being programmes
  • Career growth sessions
  • Thousands of online courses through Udemy
  • A variety of engaging office events

Job title

Lead Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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