Lead Software Engineer

Sanderson Recruitment Plc

Bristol, UK

13 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Compensation

£91,000.0 - £115,000.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.careerjet.co.uk

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles Agile Methodology Amazon S3 Big Data Code Review Continuous Delivery Distributed Systems Github Java Virtual Machine (JVM) PostgreSQL Enterprise Messaging Systems Redis

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Cloud Services Zero Trust Network Access Systems Integration Backend Gitlab Kotlin Atlassian Tools Apache Kafka Devsecops Microservices

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help build and scale secure backend platforms used by National Security and Defence customers. You’ll work on modern cloud-based systems using a mix of commercial and open-source technologies across private and public cloud environments. What you’ll be doing

Designing, building, deploying and improving backend services and platforms
Delivering features that meet both functional and non-functional requirements
Estimating and shaping user stories as part of an Agile team
Shipping small, frequent releases to keep momentum high
Working closely with other engineers in cross-functional teams
Building, optimising and running CI/CD pipelines
Owning and supporting the services your team delivers in production

Requirements

5+ years’ experience delivering production-grade cloud solutions
Strong Java experience, with exposure to JVM languages such as Kotlin or Scala
Experience with Kafka or similar messaging platforms
Background in Agile DevSecOps environments and Zero Trust architectures
Experience integrating with services such as PostgreSQL, Redis and S3
Solid engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, documentation, code reviews and continuous delivery
Comfortable using GitHub, GitLab and Atlassian tools
Strong TDD experience
Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed systems
Exposure to Big Data technologies