Principal Backend Engineer, AND Digital
Java
Developing & delivering digital products and platforms
Open for applications
Developing & delivering digital products and platforms
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To close the world's digital skills gap.
Role
Who you are
- Hands on coding capability to a specialist/expert level in Java
- Wide experience of pragmatic, hands-on technical delivery of enterprise-scale projects across the full SDLC
- Deep understanding and extensive track record of delivering complex technical solutions using Agile methods including Scrum, SAFe etc
- Hands-on experience of modern software delivery, including XP, TDD, CI/CD and DevOps practices
- A keen understanding of industry best-practice around standards, quality and continuous improvement
- Proven leadership of teams and teams of teams; extensive client-facing experience is expected
Desirable
- Experience in coaching and providing career progression to senior developers and tech leads, supporting highly experienced developers create exciting and inspiring career ambitions
- Awareness to think about technology strategically, creating flexible and robust plans for investment and change, and communicating these effectively
- Experience working with managers to deliver complex and sensitive technical messages/solutions upwards and across teams
- Experience of managing technologists across multiple teams to ensure they are working toward a holistic vision/goal
- Consultancy experience across a number of sectors is a bonus
- As an added bonus, you may be a well established figure in your field; perhaps you are a recognised conference speaker or tech blogger/writer, are an industry expert in a specialist field, or have contributed to open source projects or charitable technical projects (like TuringLabs etc.)
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer for a club of over 80 people (approx. 30-40 developers of all experience levels from Associate to Technical Lead), you will spend the majority of your time helping build our technical capabilities, growing our technologists and influencing technical direction, both within AND and for our clients
- Be initially 100% billable and hands on while the Club grows; as we mature this might be less and be a more pure consulting and BD role to help grow clients and fix failing projects
- Help with winning new clients by helping to solve their technology problems; coming up with compelling and pragmatic solutions
- Lead the engineering and development thinking for your club, ensuring that this aligns with the Club Executive’s strategy, overarching business strategy, and client needs
- Guide and support the improvement of technical skills for the junior to senior developers in your Club, during their time in internal projects between client assignments
- Define coding standards and ensure they are followed during client assignments
- Provide technical oversight for client work on the Club’s most challenging engineering activities, working alongside the Club’s Product Developers and Technical Leads
- Enable an inclusive and diverse technology culture in your Club, and support these values on our client engagements, including building this culture onsite directly with clients and their incumbent technologists
- Support club in setting up engagements for success, ensuring that technical direction and choices are appropriate for clients’ needs, (providing technical oversight during discovery) and supporting the project resourcing during discovery phase
- Collaborating with the Technologists of the Consulting team to establish AND’s tech proposition and develop Thought Leadership
Our take
As the need for digital transformation continues to grow, many organisations find themselves lacking the skills to keep up. AND Digital has stepped in to help bridge this gap, with a clear mission to close the world's digital skills shortage. Rather than simply delivering digital solutions, they focus on helping businesses understand how to work digitally, so they can continue to grow and adapt long after a project is finished.
The company is standing out from the crowd too, by working alongside their clients instead of working for them. Combining their own people with client teams into one collaborative unit, they identify challenges, build digital products, and share skills throughout the process, so clients can take full ownership of their apps, websites, and future digital work.
Unsurprisingly, this approach has had a strong impact and continues to drive AND Digital's growth. With cross-functional teams across the UK, the Netherlands, and the US East Coast, the company scales based on demand. And their city-based 'Club' model blends local, personalised service with the strength of a global organisation, putting AND Digital in a strong position for the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2021
$10.8m
EARLY VC
Feb 2020
$14.9m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $25.7m
Company HQ
Maidenhead, UK
Leadership
Paramjit Uppal
(Founder)Former Founder of Qedis (brought out by North Highland UK in 2013) and Director at Deloitte.
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