Lead Engineer
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Lead Engineer to be based at their client’s office in Edinburgh, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Edinburgh office 2-3 days per week .
This is a 12 month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a Feature Team delivering features on our flagship products.
- Implementing software engineering best practices to deliver exciting and innovative software within the API team.
- Develop solutions that support a consistent approach for delivering our technical strategy.
- Collaborate using Agile frameworks methodologies, to optimise team development process and give rapid feedback working iteratively.
- Ensure the Features delivered are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards according to client’s expectation (Build, unit test and Deploy)
- At this role, we are looking to blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and show great passion for coaching and developing people in a ‘player-coach’ role
- Work hands-on alongside engineering colleagues to deliver the highest quality customer driver software
- Work in an Agile fast paced environment and work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well defined, complex and often non-routine
Key Requirements
- Detailed knowledge and experience of Software engineering and processes, to be able to confidently design and implement solutions.
- In depth knowledge of developing and managing API solutions, including REST and microservices.
- Exposure to an API Management Platform would be a bonus (eg: ApigeeX, API Connect or similar).
- Knowledge of Cyber security and techniques to build secure and robust solutions.
- Cloud technologies and infrastructure are essential you will have exposure on at least one of the 3 main cloud providers Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills are also essential.
- Engineering leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Backend developer with hands on development experience working with Spring , Spring Boot, rest services, Java 8+,Kafka, Building Microservice
- Experience of NodeJS, ReactJS a bonus
- Strong knowledge of BDD/TDD and Junit
- Strong Knowledge on the entire software development cycle
- Experience of working with DevOps tools and approaches
- Experience with agile development methodologies and tooling etc.
- Experience of using software development toolsets including DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Experience in GCP
- Strong Experiences and understanding of Microservices
- Experience and understanding of API gateways
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