Lead Developer, OceanFinance

• You’ll be the kind of person that loves to push the boundaries of what’s possible and thrives in a fast-paced environment like ours
• You are passionate about software and personal growth alike with the drive to own services you build, love thinking big and have a solid understand of CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and cloud services
• You are also deeply passionate about delivering the highest quality results
• You are naturally customer centric and thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires strong technical, business and communication skills
• You must be able to demonstrate excellent knowledge of building data driven services and the ability to integrated with third party APIs
• 3+ years’ experience in backend development
• Experience with .NET and TSQL
• A love of high-quality code and practices
• Experience working with business analysts to build services
• Understanding of scaling and auto deployments
• Someone who takes ownership of their work
• Using source control (Git, GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab)
• Building and Integrating APIs
• NodeJS

Desirable

• You will help build and execute on the existing strategy focused on building reliable, efficient, and scalable back-end services to help new and exciting projects
• This includes exciting opportunities to work with AWS and Serverless tech
• You will need to exhibit an excellent ability to prioritise, manage and able to adapt rapidly to new technology and development strategies being utilised
• The successful candidate will grow and lead the organisation through change, evolution, and sustained growth
• You will work alongside full development team consisting of likeminded back-end developers, front-end developers, testers, business analysts, a world-class data driven team focused on delivering agreed OKRS and company aligned goals
• You will be reporting to the Head of Engineering of our broking team
• A day in the life of this role could look like…
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and cost/benefit analysis of proposed solutions
• Proactively drive the business forward by working with the other stakeholders to understand and contribute to the overall business strategy and how technology can enable and help deliver this
• Work closely with architects; core team and other pillars to share business and technical knowledge
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture team and director technology to plan technical road map for your pillar
• Act as a domain owner to review and approve PBIs and the technical analysis
• Manage changing or conflicting priorities
• Work closely with the team, business and liaise with third parties to ensure projects are planned, designed, and delivered in a timely and precise manner
• Lead a delivery team responsible for project delivery and application group
• Contribute to the estimation and implementation of user stories/requirements helping to shape their technical design, data structure and implementation
• Review, update and produce system documentation as required
• Contribute to and maintain coding and other technical standards
• Take broader responsibility in the overall design and architecture
• Review, implement and improve source control, build and deployments processes using industry standard tools and practices
• Complete support handovers of product changes where appropriate
• Deal with escalated live issues and problem records
• Provide cover during live deployments if necessary
• Ensure all work is logged and authorised prior to commencement and updated on a timely basis
• Be a point of contact for business areas and 3rd Parties where work is assigned on current projects
• Provide timely and effective progress updates on all tasks to the development team and the business; escalate any issues that will impact on delivery in respect of deadlines, quality, and standards immediately
• Ensure all tasks are developer and peer tested
• Assist the business with user acceptance testing as necessary
• Ensure all development adheres to non-functional (e.g. Security, Availability, Capacity…etc.) requirements and standards
• Ensure all code is stored in the appropriate source code library
• Be able to provide out of hours support if necessary
• Perform code reviews
• Be keen and excited to become part of a completely data-driven business, working in highly regulated industry with a lot of complexity
• Share our core values – Professionalism, Respect, Humility, Passion, Openness and Trust