Senior Software Engineer (Lead)
Summary
Lead a team building scalable microservices in Go and PHP, owning CI/CD, cloud-native AWS deployments, and security practices while coaching engineers on best practices.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer(Lead) for our client, a top service provider renowned for trading and refurbishing used technology, such as cellphones and laptops. This company is dedicated to assisting manufacturers with sustainable practices and plays a significant role in reducing new tech expenses on a global scale.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Highly experienced in developing in GoLang (5 years+) and PHP (7 Years+)
- Experience of relevant frameworks like Martini, Revel, Lumen and Laravel
- Highly experienced in the use of Agile practices
- Experience of working in an organisation with a DevOps culture
- Practical experience of working in Scrum and Kanban teams across multiple geographies and timezones
- Track record of successfully designing and implementing loosely coupled micro-services architectures
- Experience of working in a cloud native environment
- Highly experienced in the writing and interfacing with REST API’s and Webhooks
- Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Cucumber, Selenium
- Knowledge of AWS design patterns
- Experience of the ELK stack
- Practical use of Jira and confluence
- Experience of writing automated tests (unit & integration)
- Security awareness in a software engineering context
- Hands on MySQL experience
- Incorporating telemetry at the code level with libraries like StatsD
- Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
- Experience with event streaming architectures and tools like Kafka
- Experience with OpsGenie
- Experience with AWS Cloudwatch
- Experience of using SonarQube, Gemnasium and Gauntlt
- Experience of AppDynamics or similar
- Experience of dashboard visualisation
- Experience of Test-Driven Development
- Demonstrable contribution to open source projects
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Share your learnings with the team from keeping up to date with industry trends and technology developments
- Collaborate with the Scrum Master, Developer in Test and Product Owners on story refinement and prioritisation
- Ensure code committed meets the definition of done
- Identify and share relevant architectural patterns
- Coach the team in the avoidance of anti-patterns
- Lead by example in the use of test automation
- Ensure the team keep the CI/CD pipeline green
- Guide the team in ensuring all code deployed to trunk is in a shippable state Perform code reviews for security, accuracy and functionality
- Create a culture of metrics and data to drive continuous improvement
- Ensure the team meets its commitments and goal for each sprint, delivering high quality code into production
- Coach the team in the practice of continual code quality improvement
- Ensure relevant regulatory and compliance goals are met
- Work closely with Infosec to ensure Security ‘shifts left’
- Collaborate closely with the Operations team, promoting a DevOps culture Mentor your fellow software engineers to help them achieve more than they thought possible
The above list is not exhaustive, and you may be asked to undertake reasonable additional duties/ projects to support the team