Backend Development Technical Lead

Our client is seeking an experienced Technical Lead, to join their team as a Squad Leader.
As a Squad Leader you will work closely with the Head of Development to define the architecture, deliverables and timelines to meet the needs of a rapidly growing young business and lead your squad through the scrum process to deliver valuable software solutions.
This role would suit a naturally collaborative engineer looking to move into a leadership role whilst staying hands on. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and defining our client's architecture, so it is vital that you thrive in a technically challenging role and want to apply best practices to cutting edge technology to deliver exceptional software.
You will lead your squad through each sprint. Guiding and supporting squad members towards the sprint goal; ensuring the squad adheres to the defined processes and delivers value.
Starting with building an API to enable the automated on boarding of more than 2 million new customers, our client's road map includes projects to deliver back office and automation projects, as well as a platform to manage their fibre network.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a new software engineering team, centred around continuous improvement. To work in a modern, collaborative, Agile development environment; to learn and grow, and help shape a business-critical software platform and play a vital role in the success of the organisation.
The Responsibilities:
• Contribute to software development projects: coding, reviewing and testing new features, integrations and bug fixes.
• Lead, guide and support squad members.
• Facilitate and participate in Scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate on and contribute to architectural plans.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure requirements are met to the highest standard.
The Deliverables:
As a development team, our client is committed to delivering value through new features and enhancements to their software platform. As part of that team, you will participate in setting those commitments and delivering on them.
You will also develop your own skillset, with the client's support, and help them raise the bar of excellence across the wider engineering team.
Candidate Requirements:
You need to be an enthusiastic, curious software engineer. Capable of contributing to the ongoing modelling and design of complex software projects and keen to learn and develop your own skills, as well as deliver high quality software, as part of a close knit team.
Skills Required:
NodeJS
AWS Compute: EC2, ECS, Lambda, Kubernetes, etc.
AWS Database
TDD
Git
MongoDB
Design Patterns
Agile Methodologies (Scrum)
Jira experience
Desired:
Domain Driven Development
Micro Services
Event Driven Architecture / Event Sourcing
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