Lead Platform Developer

What will you do?

The Lead Developer is a key member of our Platform Engineering team. The Lead Developer leads a squad of engineers to deliver strategic projects and features to our stakeholders and players. They ensure that best practices are always followed by their teams with a focus on pragmatic design and delivery of software solutions.

Your responsibilities will be

Technical leadership

• Project planning and management
• Team coordination
• Code review and quality assurance
• Technical problem solving
• Performance management
• Stakeholder communication
• Agile methodologies
• Documentation
• Continuous improvement
• Personal development

Knowledge and experience we need you to have

• Experience leading a multi-skilled team in an agile environment developing platform components and services.
• Experience working closely with internal business stakeholders and other team leads.
• Excellent broad range of knowledge of common web technologies.
• Experience of developing web applications on a cloud platform that are used by a significant number of concurrent end users in a commercial environment.
• Experience of building quality into web applications. Performance testing, integration testing, unit testing.
• Someone who is always looking to improve what they do using any and all information available to them.

We’d love you to have experience in these areas, but it’s not essential

• Experience leveraging AWS to deliver scalable and resilient systems.
• Experience leading a team of developers (4+ people) in an agile environment.
• Experience using data to inform decisions.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment.

Some tech you will use

• C# ASP.Net MVC/Web API, Node.js, Java
• Docker
• AWS - Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation
• Terraform, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy
• MSSQL, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redis, Couchbase
• Umbraco CMS