Lead Software Engineer (React + Node.js)

Your mission as a Lead Software Engineer is to lead and manage one of the teams developing the product and experience that our clients and their customers rely on and love. You’ll be ensuring that things being built are high-quality and delivered on time, working hand-in-hand with our product and design teams along with our wider technical squads to create, develop and test new features. During some of your time, you will take the lead as a technical mentor, advising on the best approach to delivering key objectives while creating an environment for the talented team to thrive. The other part of your time will be spent supporting and working hands-on with your engineering team.

Working in a startup means that things often change and we adapt to the growing and changing needs of the business. We expect the below to be the bulk of the role, but this may change over time depending on your own development needs, aspirations and the makeup of the team.

• Lead the development and implementation of software solutions.
• Assist coordination and prioritisation to ensure the team is working on the highest-value goals.
• [PRODUCT SUPPORT / SOLVING PROBLEMS / CS ESCALATION]
• Mentor, motivate and highlight performance issues, development and standards of our engineers.
• Support team ceremonies. Build strong working relationships with peers, and keep a sustainable pace of delivery.
• Hands-on coding: Develop and maintain a high-quality code base, consistently delivering challenging, stable, and maintainable projects on schedule.

• You have extensive experience with full-stack development, specifically in React and Node.js, to lead and mentor the team effectively.
• You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting-edge algorithms, software design and technologies to do so.
• You own applications end to end, from specification to coding, to deploying, running and monitoring in production.
• You have a proven track record in mentoring, supporting and measurably improving engineering teams.
• You collaborate across teams to achieve shared goals, sharing knowledge with others.
• You lead by example, inspiring engineers within your team and the broader organization.
• Applying a product mindset, you solve for end users first working, with technology being a means to an end.
• Ability to collaborate/compromise to get the best, most efficient outcome.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on the goals and deliverables.
• You are curious, humble, and are open to learning.

• Experience with hardware via USB, Bluetooth, and Ethernet.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.