| Why are we recruitingAre you a Senior 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 Cards Engineering team, as well as collaborating with our Solution & Infrastructure Architects to help translate architecture into solution design. As well as technically leading the Cards Engineering team, you will be joining a wider community of technical leads, each of whom work within the various product engineering teams, to help drive technical best practice across the PayPoint CTO function.This is a hybrid position working remotely with fortnightly/monthly visits 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.
- Passionate about mentoring the team and leading on new skills, technology, testing approach, change risk assessments 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 and improve service.
- 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 Product Delivery Manager.
- Supporting the Product Delivery Manager in communicating and updating stakeholders
- Assisting with translating technical solutions into language that non-technical staff will understand.
- Delivering to ambitious timelines and target dates.
- 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 and service is optimized.
What would we like from you?
- At least 5 years as a software engineer or developer, of which 2 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).
- Strong Azure Cloud experience (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.
It would be great if you already have…
- Experience of DevSecOps.
- Experience in CRM systems development (e.g. Salesforce).
- Experience in ITSM tools development (e.g. ServiceNow).
- Experience of merchant services.
- 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.
What can we do for you?
- Discretionary bonus scheme.
- Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.
- On-site gym at our office, and nationwide corporate rate gym membership.
- Collect+ service at our office, where you can send and receive parcels.
- 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.
At PayPoint, we are 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, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. |
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