Lead Developer

Job Title: Lead Developer

Location: Bristol

Office Location: Fully Remote

Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 per annum

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Developer to join our team. The Lead Developer will be responsible for leading a team of developers, architecting and developing high-quality software solutions, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects. The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership, technical, and communication skills to mentor team members and drive continuous improvement in our software development processes.

This role requires someone to spearhead technical initiatives and gain buy-in from the business and the technical team. The Lead Developer will collaboratively work alongside a Product Manager.

This is a chance to help an engaged, hardworking team who need a guiding hand and help build them into a high-performing autonomous squad and to unlock more products and avenues for a rapidly growing business.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring high-quality software design and code standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to the development team.

Software Development:

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Develop and maintain back-end services, databases, and APIs.
• Troubleshoot, debug and optimize applications for performance and scalability.

Quality Assurance:

• Implement best practices for coding, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure code quality, security, and compliance with industry standards.
• Conduct system analysis to identify performance bottlenecks and recommend improvements.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies.
• Foster a continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation culture within the development team.
• Promote the adoption of agile methodologies and DevOps practices where applicable.
  

Experience needed

• Strong technical leadership experience
• Strong business stakeholder management skills
• Strong architectural and SOLID coding knowledge
• Strong Web application and Restful API skills
• Typescript/Javascript
• DynamoDB and / or elastic
• Lambda functions
• Strong AWS skills
• Strong database skills

Remuneration Package

• Permanent contract
• Up to £75,000 per annum
• Flexible working hours (core hours of 10 am - 4 pm)
• 37.5-hour working week
• 10% of time allocated to professional development
• Company pension
• Training Udemy account available

If interested, please send your CV in today.