Do you want to work on Applications viewed/used by the whole country? Do you want to work on exciting projects? 35 hour working week? Great diverse working environment? Yes to all of the above?
Then I have a great opportunity for you!
Currently recruiting for Software Engineering Team Leads! - JavaScript Web - AWS
We are looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead to help expand our clients Node.js backend team for app teams in London. You will have a leading role in an engineering team responsible for Mobile News that delivers an intuitive and engaging experience to millions of audience members every day.
The successful Software Engineering Team Lead will:
- Key role in leading a multidisciplinary team
- Line management responsibilities for 4/5 engineers
- Assisting with recruiting and onboarding new team members
- Mentoring and developing team members and peers to help them to reach their potential
- Inspiring and motivating the team to help them deliver a world class streaming experience
- Help to foster a collaborative and inclusive culture across Audience Content Experience, which includes News & Sport, Children, Education & Longtail, Content Discovery and Channels & Product Excellence.
Technical Leadership Includes:
- Playing a key role in the technical direction of TV
- Advocate new technologies and approaches to ensure our products are industry leading
- Providing domain expertise across the BE team
- Ensuring a high standard of engineering excellence within their product
What we are looking for
- Have the ability to lead, coach mentor and line manage a team of 4 engineers
- Have experience working with cross discipline peers including Product Managers, Delivery Mangers and Design Leads
- Be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in an organisation
- Proficient in JavaScript
- Strong AWS skills
- Strong understanding of OOP, analysis and decoupled design
- Demonstrable understanding of Test-Driven Development
- Experience of source control systems such as Git
- A track record of producing maintainable code within collaborative environments
Our client is proud to champion a diverse working environment, offer flexible working, career progression and unrivalled training and development opportunities