Development Lead, Dotdigital

• For this role, we’re looking for someone who’s got strong and current commercial Node.js, .NET and MongoDB skills
• A large part of the initial work will be focused on modernising our communications platform, so any experience in working improving legacy codebases would be a benefit
• Managing large volumes of data is core to everything we do, so experience in working in high performance environments will be a huge plus
• The Product Engineering team has five department values that we use to guide us, and we hope they’ll resonate with you. They are:
• Simplicity
• Shipping fast, sustainably
• Ownership
• Be excellent to each other
• Communication makes us stronger
• Prior commercial experience with Node.js, MongoDB
• A drive to modernise and improve existing code bases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of working within a Software Engineering team (git, PRs, scrum, agile, etc) - ideally a remote-first team
• Previous commercial team leadership or mentoring experience

Desirable

• As a Development Lead you will be leading one of our communications platform scrum teams, modernising, scaling, and building new functionality for our platform to deal with our ever increasing customer and data volumes
• You will support your team in their technical and personal development, providing them with regular feedback and guidance
• You’ll work closely with your Group Engineering Manager, as well as Product Managers, QA, infrastructure teams and other business functions to plan, deliver, and contribute high quality work to expected deadlines
• We ship regularly, with automated deployments at the click of a button, and when you join us, we want you to ship code to production in your first sprin
• We prioritise customer success; and we’re rigorous about security at every stage of the development lifecycle
• Some of our problems are unique to large software – dealing with large datasets, maintaining very high throughput, and 24/7 platform uptime
• We keep in touch with each other via Slack and Zoom and have a great collaborative culture

• 15min screening call with our talent team
• A quick online technical test, which should about an hour
• You’ll join a video call with two people from our engineering team and we’ll chat tech, your previous experience and do some pair programming. This will take around an 90 minutes
• We’ll have a final video interview, with at least one of our Group Engineering Managers involved. We’ll talk tech and projects again, but we really encourage questions during this phase. We’re happy to discuss our tech stack, our ambitions, current problems, our processes, or anything else that’s on your mind – nothing’s off limits
• Contact: Yamkela Mpongwana