The Opportunity ESW currently have an opening for an Engineering Lead in our Newry office. Working in an Agile environment you will be part of the product team contributing to the ongoing evolution of eShopWorld's suite of eCommerce products. This will mean working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and QA Engineers in our development teams based in Dublin and Newry. We are looking for someone that will fit in with our culture of collaboration, communication and teamwork. Refactoring should not be an issue and is actively encouraged. Test driven development should be part of your daily development tasks. As we are a .NET house you should have great experience in using the technologies that support the development of .NET applications: .NET, .Net Core, Web API, Azure integration (Cosmos DB, KeyVaults, AppInsights). We occasionally still use Entity framework and SQL Server so good if you have some of that background, too. Our services work in highly distributed, event-driven environment and we have migrated from Azure Service Bus to Kafka recently. Our UI applications are based on latest versions of Angular and we promote micro-frontend UI. You should want to do things better - we believe in continuous improvement of the development process - and you should have an opinion and contribute to improving. You should care about agile, continuous integration, continuous deployment, DDD, TDD, unit testing and integration testing. Key Responsibilities Ensure that the teams technical roadmap is aligned with the product strategy and that the team is shipping architecturally sound software at regular cadence. Manage a team of 5-8 software engineers, fostering a continuous improvement and growth mindset. Provide hands on code reviews, mentorship and regular feedback. Allocate some time for hands-on development tasks but primarily support team by working with Architecture on designing scalable systems. Work closely with peers in Architecture, Production Engineering and QA to ensure delivery of a highly scalable, secure and performant system. Partner with our client's technical teams on projects. Ensure effective communication and collaboration across multiple teams. Champion best practices and guide your team in use of DDD, TDD, scalable designs. Ensure code quality and test coverage. Troubleshoot and resolve system issues. Continuously strive to introduce improvements and innovations to the team. Key Experience & Skills At least 10 years' experience with several years leading development teams. Deep technical knowledge with a history of solving complex problems. Knowledge of development stack: C#, WebApi, .NET Core, No SQL, Microservices, event-driven architectures, Restful architecture. Frontend experience with Javascript Frameworks. Experience in the Azure stack or other cloud. Proficient in Test Driven Development working within an Agile SCRUM team. Intellectual curiosity, learning agility, and enthusiasm for tackling tough problems. Outstanding communication skills required - primarily the ability to communicate ideas. Code in your own time outside of work and enjoy solving programming problems. LI-hybrid