Lead Developer - Manchester City Centre (2 days p/w in office) up to £75k + bonus
This is an excellent opportunity to form the next generation of senior leadership within an organisation that develops high-volume data and transaction processing systems.
Based in Manchester City Centre with 2 days a week in office, this Lead role is paying up to £75k + bonus.
Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, and working with other Lead Developers, you will provide technical leadership on complex work-streams running in parallel with other teams. These work-streams are focused on back-end development of trading tools used by internal stakeholders.
The organisation is transitioning to a micro-services architecture, which means that there will be an equal balance between legacy system work and new development initiatives on the road map. The intention is to move away from old ways of working, and look at the best approach and technologies, giving you the opportunity to really effect change and make an impact.
Responsibilities:
1. Being the Technical Lead in the design and implementation in solutions
2. Being the go-to person for a development team of 10
3. Leading refinement sessions
4. Driving continuous improvement in either tooling or processes and then running POC's for them.
5. Driving collaboration across teams where there is cross-over or overlap on projects, technology or impact
6. Support and maintain the teams AWS development and test environments which are spun-up and torn-down regularly.
7. Hands-on coding (50%)
8. Designing document structures for databases
Requirements:
9. Previous experience leading a team and implementing continuous improvements
10. Extensive experience with C#, .Net, SQL Server and MongoDB (or other NoSQL databases)
11. Good understanding of pipelines such as Jenkins
12. Good understanding of database operations and clustering
13. Understanding of either AWS, Azure or other cloud environments
14. Experience with large scale systems
On offer:
15. Flexible working hours
16. Annual bonus
17. 25 days leave + bank holidays
18. Pension
19. etc.
Only candidates residing within a reasonable commutable distance from Manchester (or willing to relocate) and whom have the right to work in the UK will be considered.