This growing parking software company works across the UK’s major airports tracking over 1 million cars a year. Founded in 2014, this talented and smart team of 14 are reinventing the way operators view their parking assets and giving customers peace of mind whilst they are away.
This is an innovative and entrepreneurial start-up business with exciting expansion opportunities on the horizon and is backed by a Sunday Times Top 100 parent company where Developers across the group thrive.
The opportunity:
You’ll lead our newly formed development team and be responsible for delivering robust and performant solutions across our platform. You'll deliver the best option for challenges the business puts in front of you and have the resources and time you need to get the job done.
Our stack consists of Javascript, NodeJS (Express), React, Sequelize and MySQL and you'll always use the best technologies available.
Your responsibilities
- Hands-on development; delving into technical detail and acting primarily in a development capacity while making the necessary time for a small team.
- Lead software delivery in a cross-functional team including matrix-organised reports within an agile product delivery environment
- Recruitment of software engineers with high-level selection criteria
- Work with the Product Owner to establish a roadmap of concrete deliverables and make sure its delivered
- Establish strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand business requirements.
- Use best software engineering practices to ensure delivery on team commitments
- Frequently report on team delivery performance being transparent about team challenges and proactively communicate risks to all levels
- Encourage a supportive culture where people are allowed to make mistakes but also learn from them
- Promote the culture of autonomy and responsibility within the delivery team
- Keep strong ties with key senior technology staff in other group businesses and make sure communication is fluent and interactions are managed well and common goals are met
- Responsibility to design and execute the technical architecture roadmap
What we're looking for:
- Experience working as a senior software engineer in a tech business.
- Strong knowledge of the technical architecture of SaaS applications, real-time data-management systems and software components such as data stores, application middleware, APIs, UIs, distributed caching and messaging
- Strong leadership capability with management experience
- Extensive programming experience, ideally in Javascript/Node.js
- Experience of API design and shipping of HTTP Services.
- Experience building highly scalable distributed web applications.
- A Github profile and (ideally) open source contributions.
- Examples of a pragmatic approach to software delivery, understanding the pros and cons of shipping early and often.
Desirable
- Experience with React (including native), Redux, Express, Sequelize, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Convox
10% bonus
Great benefits package
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