Senior Software Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer(Lead) for our client, a top service provider renowned for trading and refurbishing used technology, such as cellphones and laptops. This company is dedicated to assisting manufacturers with sustainable practices and plays a significant role in reducing new tech expenses on a global scale.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

• Highly experienced in developing in GoLang (5 years+) and PHP (7 Years+)

• Experience of relevant frameworks like Martini, Revel, Lumen and Laravel

• Highly experienced in the use of Agile practices

• Experience of working in an organisation with a DevOps culture

• Track record of successfully designing and implementing loosely coupled micro-services architectures

• Experience of working in a cloud native environment

• Highly experienced in the writing and interfacing with REST API’s and Webhooks

• Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Cucumber, Selenium

• Knowledge of AWS design patterns

• Experience of the ELK stack

• Practical use of Jira and confluence

• Experience of writing automated tests (unit & integration)

• Security awareness in a software engineering context

• Hands on MySQL experience

Desirable:

• Incorporating telemetry at the code level with libraries like StatsD

• Experience with Docker & Kubernetes

• Experience with event streaming architectures and tools like Kafka

• Experience with OpsGenie

• Experience with AWS Cloudwatch

• Experience of using SonarQube, Gemnasium and Gauntlt

• Experience of AppDynamics or similar

• Experience of dashboard visualisation

• Experience of Test-Driven Development

• Demonstrable contribution to open source projects

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Write high quality, elegant, effective code

• Share your learnings with the team from keeping up to date with industry trends and technology developments

• Collaborate with the Scrum Master, Developer in Test and Product Owners on story refinement and prioritisation

• Ensure code committed meets the definition of done

• Identify and share relevant architectural patterns

• Coach the team in the avoidance of anti-patterns

• Lead by example in the use of test automation

• Ensure the team keep the CI/CD pipeline green

• Guide the team in ensuring all code deployed to trunk is in a shippable state • Perform code reviews for security, accuracy and functionality

• Create a culture of metrics and data to drive continuous improvement

• Provide operational support for your products

• Ensure the team meets its commitments and goal for each sprint, delivering high quality code into production

• Coach the team in the practice of continual code quality improvement

• Ensure relevant regulatory and compliance goals are met

• Work closely with Infosec to ensure Security ‘shifts left’

• Collaborate closely with the Operations team, promoting a DevOps culture • Mentor your fellow software engineers to help them achieve more than they thought possible

The above list is not exhaustive, and you may be asked to undertake reasonable additional duties/ projects to support the team