Software Engineer – Continuity

Responsibilities

• Software Development:
  Develop, test, and debug software solutions, taking a lead on what good coding practices look like.
• Technical Leadership:
  Provide expert guidance on complex projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and follow engineering best practice.
• Architecture and Design:
  Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software solutions or 3rd party integrations, whilst partnering with colleagues in Architecture.
• Code Review:
  Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to technical standards, maintainability, automated testing and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaboration:
  
  Gain a deep understanding of our area, working with key business stakeholders, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.
• Mentorship:
  Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing your knowledge and experience to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Operational Excellence:
  Ensure our systems are well monitored, with good alerting, and tooling to support incident response and investigation. Ensure learnings are fed back into the development process.
• Innovation:
  Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve our operations and enhance customer service.

• Proven track record in full stack engineering developing high-performing, robust UI and backend systems and integrations, with a focus on optimisation and scalability.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.
• Good understanding of automated testing and performance testing practices and toolsets, and how they are best applied at unit, integration, and system levels, across both back-end and front-end technologies.
• Proven hands-on experience implementing Dev Sec Ops  practices at scale across enterprise-wide applications.
• Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, SQL, JavaScript) and tools (e.g. Git, CI/CD pipelines).
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable applications on cloud infrastructure, with a focus on performance and security.
• Clear communicator who can convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, fostering collaboration and understanding.
• Possess a mentorship mindset with a genuine desire to share knowledge and empower others to reach their full potential.
• Good knowledge of AI/ML technologies and GenAI tools such as Copilot, with hands-on experience implementing GenAI tools and agents across the software development lifecycle.

Hard Skills

• full stack engineering
• UI development
• backend systems
• optimisation
• scalability
• automated testing
• performance testing
• Dev Sec Ops
• programming languages
• cloud infrastructure

Soft Skills

• technical leadership
• mentorship
• clear communication
• collaboration
• continuous improvement
• coaching
• expert guidance
• problem-solving
• adaptability
• innovation