Senior Staff Software Engineer (Exclusive)

Ocho People
Belfast, UK
28 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
£90,000.0 - £120,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 Audit Trail C++ (Programming Language) D3.Js Data Visualization Distributed Systems Fault Tolerance Python (Programming Language)
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PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Software Development Open Source Technology Ruby Standard Sql Tableau (Software) Scripting Spring-boot Electronic Medical Records Cloudformation Looker Analytics

Job description

As Lead Engineer for the Portal Reports and Insights application team, you’ll design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant systems powering reporting and analytics used by clients worldwide, systems that run nearly 10,000 reports every week. You’ll lead software initiatives from concept to delivery, set the technical bar for the team, and mentor engineers as you go., * Design and implement distributed, fault-tolerant reporting and insights systems

  • Lead software initiatives end-to-end, from conception through to delivery
  • Drive engineering best practice across the wider team
  • Build analytical dashboards and data visualisations used directly by clients
  • Mentor engineers and support their technical growth
  • Partner cross-team to keep performance and reliability high at scale

Requirements

  • 7+ years building and supporting scalable, distributed systems with open-source tools
  • Hands-on OOP experience (Java/C++) plus a scripting language (Python/Ruby)
  • Experience writing complex SQL (PostgreSQL a plus)
  • Experience with an API framework such as Spring Boot
  • Experience with a public cloud provider, AWS preferred
  • Prior technical leadership or mentoring experience

Desirable:

  • Deeper AWS experience: CloudFormation, EMR, S3, EC2, CloudTrail
  • Experience with data visualisation tools such as D3.js, Tableau or Looker

Benefits & conditions

  • Systems used at genuinely global scale, nearly 10,000 reports a week
  • A company independently certified as a Great Place to Work in seven countries
  • Real mentoring and technical leadership opportunity

Next Steps

Interested, or know someone who’d be a great fit? Get in touch with Chanel at , or connect on LinkedIn for a confidential chat.

About the company

Since launching in 2005, this business has scaled from a single US office into a genuinely global operation across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, now connecting thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. It’s been named a Great Place to Work in the US, Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK, a reflection of how it treats the people building that growth.

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