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We've been exclusively retained by our client, a well loved household name, known for their award winning delivery in the B2C space, to help them with their search for a senior engineer.

You will be overseeing the delivery of new features of their core technology, which links the every day user experience to back end B2B suppliers. This is mission critical software for this business.

At the crux of the successful applicant is a tech savvy, pragmatic, authentic and compassionate 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.

Core to the successful candidate is a pragmatic, innovative technology disruptor- a change maker who can spot opportunities to improve the status quo and support this business' continued successes  company continues on a rapid trajectory of fast growth.

Essential skills for the role:

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• Strong grasp of the developers perspective on SDLC from TDD, through to CI/CD pipeline implementation and monitoring
• The ability to deliver systems that scale! This client is anticipating 3x growth, the platform already supports billions of transactions a minute.
• Experience overseeing the learning and development needs of your team ensuring their skills are current and fit for the technical challenges at hand
• Empathetic, compassionate leadership with demonstrated experience of managing and coaching high performing teams
• Comfortable influencing stakeholders at all levels to effect positive technology change
• Experienced hosting and moderating technical discussions with your development teams
• Experience working with Agile / SOLID / DRY / Kanban etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skilled at managing and motivating a diverse remote first technology team
• Minimum 8 years' experience working in software engineering with either C# or Java.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working with cloud technology, - AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalents.
• Thorough understanding of microservices architecture / SOA
• Experience working with Kafka / other streaming platforms also of interest

If you are into delivering resilient, high volume trading systems, 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.

This is a hybrid role which will require your in-office attendance at a minimum 4-5 days a month. The client is open to applicants living anywhere in the UK, but not living overseas.

The Difference Engine  is a recruitment agency working exclusively in support of our client.

• Seniority level
  
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Industries Technology, Information and Media, Software Development, and IT System Custom Software Development

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