Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead

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Requirements:

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical ownership making key technical decisions and overseeing project organisation and milestones with a product-oriented mindset.
• Team Building: Manage and grow a high-performing engineering team. Foster a collaborative and innovative culture within the engineering department.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and collaborate with engineers and data analysts, facilitating effective communication and teamwork across diverse functions.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with product management, field operations, and the VP of Technology to identify and address business requirements.
• Bridge communication gaps and implement cohesive plans to align product requirements with technical implementation.
• Project Implementation: Hands-on implementation of critical components, including REST APIs, data transformation processes, and backend-to-frontend data integrations.
• Process Improvement: Review and refine existing processes to enhance team efficiency, communication, and the integration of QA and documentation in the planning stages.
• Strategic Thinking: Strong strategic decision-making skills with the ability to set a vision for the engineering team and align it with overall company goals.
• Market Awareness: Ability to research the market, identify key trends, and adapt strategies to stay ahead in the competitive AI and machine learning landscape.
• Communication: Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and align diverse stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills with a strategic approach to addressing complex technical challenges.
• Technical Skills: Familiar with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda and other AWS services.
• RESTful API design and implementation inc GraphQL.
• Familiar with working with Kafka topics.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, Typescript.
• Familiar working and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• A firm understanding and experience deploying and managing microservices.
• Database Knowledge: Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL, Vector and Graph Databases, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• Collaboration and Code Reviews: Participate in software design reviews and peer code reviews. Provide constructive feedback to team members and collaborate on implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Help drive the technical roadmap for the team in close collaboration with the PM and the product roadmap.
• Manage and improve systems to maintain high service availability to our customers.
• Enable your team first, ship your own projects second.
• Be glue for execution (e.g. organising cycle planning, standups, retros) in a manner that engages effectively with the rest of the company.
• Help the engineers on your team (currently 8) grow in their careers.
• Maintain healthy team culture with a high level of trust and psychological safety.
• Collaborate with Recruiting to build out your team over the next few years.
• Coordinate the resolution of Production incidents.