Lead Software Engineer - Manchester Hybrid - £60,000 - £75,000

Neartech Search
Manchester
1 year ago
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Lead Software Engineer - Manchester | Hybrid - £60,000 - £75,000 My client are an innovative scale-up within the SaaS domain, offering services to help clients streamline emissions monitoring and reporting. Their platform uses machine learning to optimise operations and reduce environmental impact, with a focus on efficiency, sustainability, and compliance with industry standards. Having been in existence for almost 2-years, they're looking as growing their development team due to investment, growth and the need to expand their product offerings, as such this new position has arisen. As a lead developer / engineer in the team, you'll be working alongside the CTO to steer the technical direction of the firm and dev team, ensuring business goals and strategies are met, crafting some pretty cool software solutions and ensuring the company's technology remains advantageous within a relatively competitive industry. Key tasks: Helping to craft the business strategy in terms of software development Mentor and guide the software development team, training, performance evaluation etc Oversee the planning and execution of development projects Handle relationships with technology vendors and service providers Oversee key development whilst getting stuck in as well Key skills needed: Previous experience as a lead developer - preference for smaller teams Technical proficiency in the following: MERN Stack, GCP, AWS Sagemaker Good experience of driving innovation/implementing new technologies For more information on this opportunity, apply or reach out to me on LinkedIn directly

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