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Job Details: Lead Software Engineer - PayPoint Platform
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Vacancy Name
Vacancy Name Lead Software Engineer - PayPoint Platform
Vacancy No
Vacancy No VN313
Employment Type
Employment Type Full-Time
Business Name
Business Name PayPoint Network Ltd
Location
Why are we recruiting
Are you a Senior Developer/Engineer or an existing Lead, with a passion for technology, looking to join and lead an ambitious and growing cross-functional DevOps team?
As a Lead Software Engineer you will be hands-on working in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven engineering team. You will be providing technical leadership to the Platform team, as well as collaborating with our Solution & Infrastructure Architects to help translate architecture into solution design. As well as technically leading the Platform engineering team, you will be joining a wider community of technical leads, each of who work within the various product engineering teams, to help drive technical best practice across the PayPoint CTO function.
This position will be based working remotely with the occasional visit fortnightly/monthly to our bright and modern offices in Welwyn Garden City.
What will you be doing?
- Overseeing all aspects of development for an entire product or system, including key decisions on the overall technical direction
- Being accountable for the deliveries into the Production environment by you and other engineers within the team, ensuring that these do not compromise the stability, availability and security of the systems, services or products
- Mentoring the team and leading on new skills, technology and problem solving
- Bridging the gap between the engineering team and other technical/non-technical teams both within and external to the business
- Designing, developing and maintaining scalable technical solutions that support the ongoing growth of the business
- Developing clean code which adheres to SOLID principles and following the solution architecture
- Ensuring that the application lifecycle, quality assurance, database engineering and build and deployment tasks are in place and understood by the team
- Ensuring that the business has systems that are performant & reliable and meet functional and non-functional requirements
- Actively participating in driving continuous improvement in the team’s processes, software tools and output
- Demonstrating experience of designing features with security in mind
- Helping to shape the team’s ways of working with the Delivery Manager and Product Owner
- Supporting the Product Owner and Delivery Manager in communicating and updating stakeholders
- Assisting with translating technical solutions into language that non-technical staff will understand
- Delivering to challenging deadlines
- Being committed to deliver high quality well tested software as part of an agile team
- Assisting with recruitment of team members
- Being part of an out of hours support rota to ensure that the applications, systems and services in your area run smoothly at all times
- Strong experience as a software engineer or developer, ideally as a senior or staff engineer
- Follow industry standard principles (SOLID, clean code)
- Experience of application design in a micro-service architecture (considering security and infrastructure)
- Azure Cloud (Networking, Storage, Kubernetes, App Services, API Manager, Monitoring)
- .NET Core / .NET 6+
- .NET Framework (version 3.5+) and C#
- Java
- Web Development (HTML, CSS & SaSS, JavaScript, JQuery, node.js, ECMAScript)
- Web API (RESTful)
- JavaScript frameworks (e.g. AngularJS, KnockoutJS)
- Front-end frameworks (e.g. Bootstrap, Blazor)
- SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored Procedures)
- No-SQL (Cosmos Db)
- Unit Test Framework (NUnit, MSTest, or xUnit.net), Integration Testing
- Mocking frameworks (e.g. Moq)
- Source Control, Build and Deployment Tools (Azure DevOps and GIT)
- Agile (Scrum, Kanban) or DevOps environment experience, TDD/Unit Testing, CI/CD
- Experience of DevSecOps
- Experience in CRM systems development (e.g. Salesforce)
- Experience in ITSM tools development (e.g. ServiceNow)
- Messaging Frameworks (e.g. Azure Service Bus)
- ORM Technology (NHibernate or Entity Framework)
- Microsoft SSIS and SSRS
- MSMQ
- Postman/SOAP, Selenium, Cypress, Splunk
- Experience in Android development frameworks
- Experience in newer languages such as Golang or Rust etc.
- Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.
- On-site gym at our office, and nationwide corporate rate gym membership
- Online benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping or holidays
- Contributory company pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover
- You’re also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance and TasteCard dining discount card
- Electric Car Scheme
At PayPoint, we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and feel a sense of belonging. PayPoint is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race
Description
Description As a Lead Software Engineer you will be hands-on working in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven engineering team. You will be providing technical leadership to the Platform team, as well as collaborating with our Solution & Infrastructure Architects to help translate architecture into solution design.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities As well as technically leading the Platform engineering team, you will be joining a wider community of technical leads, each of who work within the various product engineering teams, to help drive technical best practice across the PayPoint CTO function.
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