Software Development / Tech Lead

Software Development / Tech Lead | Fully Remote | 6-month contract | Outside IR35 | £600-700 per day.

Tech Stack:REST APIs, React, Java, Go (Golang), Postgres, Docker, git, Markdow

Main Purpose of the role

The Tech Lead is the person my client expect to delegate the technical authority of a given scope. The Tech Lead works in conjunction with everyone internal and external to the team in order to produce technical solutions that are fit to purpose, scalable, and reliable. It requires creativity, technical knowledge, decision making as well as strategic vision.

• Iterates with the customer (internal and external) and other stakeholders to determine the technical requirements
• Designs and presents solutions in documents and workshops. Identifies the dependencies, impacts, efforts and resources that are required
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions and best practices
• Leads the team’s engineers by example, acting as a mentor in the engineering craft
• Participates in recruitment activities to engage and select candidates matching our criteria
• Defines guidelines and establishes and maintains high-quality engineering standards
• Keeps the other engineers engaged with the technologies we’re working with
• Evolves the engineering maturity to be on par with the non-functional and functional state-of-the-art
• Drives customer-centric, global scale architecture and implementation within the team
• Communicates transparently to the whole business
• Reaches out to other teams and works towards alignment and overall continuous improvement
• Acts as a beacon of excellence and as an employee of reference, mentoring junior colleagues
• Promotes the brand internally and externally

Requirements

• Track record of having past team members referring as a technical leader
• Experience with real-time and near real-time stream processing systems
• Experience with number lifecycle management
• Experience with mobile number portability specifications and processes
• Proven experience in developing and operating scalable and highly available systems in an effectively distributed ecosystem
• Extensive experience in integrations with REST API’s and data streams
• Strong experience designing and implementing applications end-to-end (database, service, API, web app)
• Experience with relational databases
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Good understanding of cloud services and scalable infra-structure
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Previous experience with these technologies will be valued: REST APIs, React, Java, Go (Golang), Postgres, Docker, git, Markdow
• Able to anticipate needs as well as problems and addresses them before they cause impact
• Strong and confident technical decision making