Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead | Software Engineering | United Kingdom

Our client isn't your typical tech start-up. It's pioneering private ,market data intelligence platform with a key difference – they are backed by the Aztec Group, Europe’s largest and most successful fund and corporate services provider.

As a Tech Lead, you will join a team with ambitious plans to power Private Market data intelligence and insights. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will work closely with the CTO, Data Engineering and Data Science teams, Head of Product, and our delivery squads via development partners.

Key responsibilities:

• Produce high quality code with good test coverage, using modern abstractions and frameworks for building new features and enhancing existing products
• Support all phases of development from early definition on through specification, architecture and productisation
• Break down complex systems into components and tasks so you and your colleagues can deliver efficiently
• Translate business requirements into technical design and specifications
• Taking a DevOps mindset to ensure your team delivers quality product features
• Take ownership of code reviews and encourage team members to learn from your experienced feedback
• Promote best engineering practices, such as planning, estimation, SOLID
• Mentor and nurture members of your team and within the engineering team

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience building software at a professional level
• Proven programming skills, with expertise in Python and React development
• Strong experience with unit and integration testing
• Ability to work full stack, from applying Figma designs to building APIs
• Ability to communicate with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to understand and break down complex problems
• Adaptable to change and willing to own any complex task given to you and see it through to production
• Experienced in shipping microservice based applications to production, including knowledge of the CI/CD process (we use GitHub)
• Ability to understand, architect and document distributed systems
• Possess leadership qualities and take pride in helping the less experienced grow in their careers
• Strong experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases

Their tech stack:

• React Typescript frontends
• Php8 Symphony - they are in the process of migrating to a Python backend
• Moving towards microservice architecture throughout our stack
• PostgreSQL for data storage
• Everything runs in Kubernetes, including locally