Tech Lead / Principal Software Engineer, Red Badger
Freelance, 6 Months Initial Duration
Digital product transformation consultancy
Job no longer available
Digital product transformation consultancy
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
Red Badger's mission is to turn the traditional consulting model on its head: no sales team; no RFP processes, just great people doing great work with a focus on quality.
Role
Who you are
- Web frontend and backend technologies (e.g. Typescript, React, Node.JS, Rust, Go, etc.)
- Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS…)
- Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulimi)
- CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
- Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
- Understanding design and technical trade-offs, optimising for lean product development and end-user value
- Designing an agile release engineering strategy that delivers value incrementally and continuously
- Supporting a highly-available live production system, responding to alerts, diagnosing problems using logs and observability tooling, triaging and resolving incidents
- Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
- Collaborating in cross-functional teams
- Coaching and line managing software engineers
Desirable
- Design, build, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud based architectures following Everything-as-Code principles
- Negotiate SLAs and SLOs with the business and supporting teams
- Help shaping and resourcing technical teams
- Articulate commercial objectives into a technical strategy
- Show a track record of owning the tech leadership on complex engineering projects, setting the technical vision for the project and managing technical stakeholders
- Coach and line manage software engineers who are starting their line management journey
- Be a part of the public face of the company in media and at meetups, conferences, etc
What the job involves
- As a Tech Lead, you will work with one of our amazing Delivery Leads. Together, you will lead your team to deliver high quality software. The work we do for our clients involves dealing with the core complexities of their business and the technology we employ varies from project to project
- You love solving complex problems, and customer value is your north star. You are comfortable consulting with technology stakeholders outside of your team. You are a technology polyglot, and an evangelist for agile ways of working
- Day to day, you will spend roughly half of your time working on code, pairing with engineers on the team, reviewing their code and helping them pick the right design to solve the problem. In the other half, you’ll be supporting the other functions (delivery, product) and our clients with decisions impacted by the technical strategy of the project and providing support and line management to engineers on your team
- Discipline Expertise and Leadership
- Lead a team engineers as part of a cross functional delivery team
- Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
- Compare among different technical and design approaches, choosing the right technology for the job
- Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
- Start or continue your journey as a line-manager
- Coach & support peers
- Provide support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)
- Agile Ways of Working
- Run and contribute to agile ceremonies, helping to shape and improve the agile process
- Work with the project’s delivery manager and product owner to lead the team in delivering high quality digital products
- Lead and support your peers in technical conversations
- Be an advocate for lean software development, building for what is required now
- Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers
- Consulting with clients
- Own the relationship with the client’s technical stakeholders
- Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward, including giving updates on the delivery progress and highlighting potential technical blockers
- Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Red Badger is a digital transformation company that provides clients with assistance in digital product development, product strategy, design and management as well as data strategy and insights. It aims to revolutionise the traditional consultancy model by its focus on the quality of its talent, without RFP processes or aggressive sales teams.
At a time when many businesses are losing trust in digital consulting firms which promise outsized results and fail to deliver, Red Badger stands by its expertise in blue chip companies and its collaborative and results-driven (rather than sales-driven) working style. This is an approach which has been successfully maintained as it has grown.
Red Badger's clients have included businesses such as Santander, HSBC, Nandos, Fortnum & Mason, Fidelity, News UK and London Metal Exchange. As the business continues to grow with a stand-out position in the market, it looks set to multiply future revenues by driving new demand and expanding its reach.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Enhanced sick pay
- Private medical cover provided by Vitality
- Cycle to work scheme, bike storage and shower facilities
- Ad-hoc yoga and other classes
- Confidential legal advice and counselling through our Employee Assistance Programme
- Death in service & critical illness cover
- 5% pension match after probation
- Generous referral bonus scheme
- 24 holidays per year, which incrementally increases to 28 days after six years service (excl. bank holidays)
- Enhanced parental leave
- Wellbeing programmes and talks
- Socials & bi-annual party
- Annual training budget of £2,000
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Cain Ullah
(Co-founder & Board Member)Worked as a Consultant for over 8 years at DST International and EMC Consulting. Currently works in advisory roles at SoDA, Positive Transformation Initiative, and 20-first alongside Red Badger.
Stuart Harris
(Co-founder)Worked for over 6 years as a Consultant at Data General. Held roles at EMC, M&C Saatchi, Transport for London, and London Underground. Left his position as Senior Technical Consultant at Conchango in May 2010 to co-found Red Badger.
David Wynne
(Co-founder & CEO)Previously Technical Lead at Avis Europe, Senior System Architect at Reach, and Technical Consultant for EMC Consulting.
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