Lead Software Engineer; Remote, United Kingdom

Lead Software Engineer (Remote, United Kingdom)

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Location:

Remote, United Kingdom | Division:
Ticketmaster UK |

Contract:

Permanent, 40 hours per week

PLEASE NOTE:

Offices closed from Monday, 22nd December until Monday, 5th January 2026. We will review applications after that date.

• Ensuring that the software is built by considering robustness, availability and security risks
• Lead the technical vision and implement the necessary technical frameworks and libraries that simplify the day-to-day features implementation.
• Design and implement automation, monitoring and infrastructure
• Continuously optimize services on all layers (infrastructure, platform, software) for high availability, high reliability, and high performance
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members
• Exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Participate in on-call and potentially some after-hours support as required
• Collaborating with different parts of the team to achieve the expected outcome (Product, Design PMO, etc.)
• Participating in the design and the development of new features as well as enhancements of existing system capabilities, by always creating value for the user as an objective
• Promoting a culture of quality within the team by applying recognized software-quality practices
• Being able to navigate in ambiguity and helping to bring clarity to different stakeholders

• Solid experience developing production‑quality software at a high scale
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Strong Java programming skills
• Strong backend development, multithreading, thread‑pools with strong OOP skills
• Strong knowledge of web application test strategies (unit, integration, user acceptance, capacity tests)
• Strong knowledge of REST and GraphQL
• Strong knowledge of multiple database products (Dynamo
  
  DB, Elastic Search, MySQL, Mongo)
• Strong knowledge writing Spring Boot classic and reactive microservices with Java
• Strong knowledge of distributed, service‑oriented, microservice and cloud‑based architectures
• Strong knowledge building cloud-native applications on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven track record building architectures for web applications (CDN, API Gateway, Backend For Front End, Authentication, Security)
• Proven track record working in an Agile + Dev Ops development environment
• Strong knowledge of Dev Ops / Continuous Delivery / Continuous Deployment best practices and guidelines
• Proven track record of building complete continuous delivery / continuous deployment pipelines
• Experience coaching engineers and documenting the best practices
• Strong experience in troubleshooting, debugging, fixing issues and building methodology to prevent them
• Ability to learn new technologies and paradigms rapidly
• Expertise in data engineering technologies (Databricks, Spark, dbt) and practices

• Has advanced troubleshooting techniques and resolves problems as they occur.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, frequently identifies enhancements.
• Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Actively participates in overall solution and architectural design of the system.
• Pro‑actively reviews various sources of performance, security and quality data to ensure accuracy and identify issues.
• Is open minded and actively seeks opportunities to try out new ideas and situations.
• Imports good ideas from similar situations experienced within their team or other teams across Technology.
• Ensures all work is performed to high standards.
• Experience working asynchronously with colleagues in different time zones.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with other teams’ members and clients.
• Ability to prioritize work based on its urgency and its importance.

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