Senior Lead Software Engineer

We've been exclusively retained by our client, a well loved household name, known for their award winning delivery in the B2C2B space, to help them with their search for a Principal Engineer. We're supporting their appointment this key technical authority for a mission critical area of their business that is transactionally high throughput and performance-wise low latency.

This is mission critical software for this business. At the crux of the successful Principal Software Engineer is a tech savvy, pragmatic, authentic and compassionate technology leader who sees programming languages as a tools to address a challenges, rather than being hung up on the tooling itself. In order to build empathy with your team, there is an expectation that you will have risen into your current position from a foundation of hands on OO programming.

We're hoping to find an innovative Principal for this client, a change maker who can spot opportunities to improve the status quo and support this business' continued successes at scale. The company continues on a rapid trajectory of fast growth.

Essential skills for the role:

• Minimum 10 years' experience working in software engineering with either C# or Java.
• Deep expertise with cloud technology - AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalents.
• Demonstrable competency in the build and delivery of high throughput, low latency solutions within a commercial setting; we're looking for an ability to deliver systems that scale! This client is anticipating 3x growth, the platform already supports billions of transactions daily.
• Strong full stack view of the world
• Thorough understanding of microservices architecture / SOA
• Experience working with Kafka / other streaming platforms also of interest
• Strong grasp of the developers perspective on SDLC from TDD, through to CI/CD pipeline implementation and monitoring
• Experience overseeing the learning and development needs of your team ensuring their skills are current and fit for the technical challenges at hand
• This is an Individual Contributor role and there is an expectation that you will present as an empathetic, compassionate leader with demonstrated experience of technical mentorship of high performing teams sharing the technology "art of the possible"
• Comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels to effect positive technology change and gain buy-in in terms of the direction you set
• Experienced hosting and moderating technical discussions with development teams
• Experience working with Agile / SOLID / DRY / Kanban etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skilled at motivating and inspiring a diverse remote first technology team

If you are into delivering resilient, highly throughput software, that integrate seamlessly into a number of endpoints with an underlying design built to scale we'd love to hear from you.

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply. Promising applicants can be assured of a response within 24 hours, to include full details of the role, progression and the excellent benefits package on offer.

The client is open to applicants living anywhere in the UK, but not living overseas. This is a remote first role that will require in office attendance 2 days a month.

TheDifferenceEngine is a recruitment agency working exclusively in support of our client.