Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform United Kingdom Research and Development

Full-time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a
global, diverse environment;you will be joining a
winning team
with a
commitment to sustainability;and a company where we get things done so that you can
make a positive impact
on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can#Make Your Moment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessibility-first user interfaces
• Deliver AI-native features across both front-end and back-end, spanning carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning capabilities
• Drive the evolution of the platform into modular, event-driven, API-first components
• Provide technical direction and make sound engineering trade-offs around scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact
• Own reliability and operational excellence, including telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous service improvement
• Champion Dev Ops practices, including CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and application-level operations
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers as part of a lean Dev Ops shared service model, while taking responsibility for application-level Dev Ops within the team
• Mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and help raise the technical bar across the team
• Champion code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, and maintainability
• Take full ownership of the quality of deliverables, including test automation, continuous improvement, and production readiness
• Partner closely with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering, and other engineering teams on product discovery, technical trade-offs, and delivery
• Bring a product- and customer-led mindset to solving customer pain points with elegant, scalable engineering solutions
• Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve the platform architecture and engineering ways of working

• Strong experience in full stack software engineering, with proven capability across both front-end and back-end development
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