Fullstack Engineering Lead

Our technology team is building a platform of solutions that will help accommodation providers optimise the way they run their business. We are investing a lot in R&D with the intention to double the amount of products we host on our platform by the end of the year, and as such are expanding our engineering team. 

To provide excellent leadership of this growing team, we are looking for a proven and experienced Full-stack Engineering Lead to join us on our exciting journey. You would help us upskill the team, working to set engineering standards, highlight inefficiencies and perform code reviews where relevant. You will also be working closely with product teams on all topics relating to product development. Lastly, you will be working to provide strong people leadership to your team of Full-stack developers to help them develop in their role and career. 

You will be responsible for: 

• Promoting high engineering standards: supporting your direct reports to challenge the choices and solution, perform code reviews, set standards, highlight inefficiencies, help them with other proposals and PoC 

• Leading an Engineering team from the front, through hands-on work on high-level architecture and analysis. 

• Strategic initiatives: Working with the Head of product & product managers on OKRs and discoveries roadmap

• People Management: supporting your team individuals through all stages of their lifecycle with Smartpricing from onboarding through to performance reviews and offboarding

• Hiring: Working with internal talent partners to build out the team and ensure we are scaling in accordance with technical requirements 

• Proven experience as a full stack engineer with recent experience in frontend and backend technologies. 

• Proven experience as people leader in a start-up or scale-up environment

• Experience working with Node.js and frontend frameworks (React / Vue / Angular)

• Exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g Jenkins, Circle CI)

• Exposure to test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Jest)

• Knowledge of distributed architectures

• Experience with SQL and wide column databases

• Experience with streaming engines (Kafka, RabbitMQ,)

We are on the cusp of an extremely exciting and rewarding journey. This means we will be working hard to tackle complicated challenges as we build a business with significant potential for the future. We will compensate you with a competitive salary that conforms to the market and your experience. 

Smartpricing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We want sincerity, but always with respect for others and their ideas. We don’t discriminate based on race or ethnic origin, colour, or whether or not you consider yourself to have a disability. Neither will your age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or political opinions play a part in your application with us.