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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Openr
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Software Quality, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, TypeScript, ReactJS, Reliability of Systems, Technical Debt, Event Driven Architecture, Front End Software Development, Software Coding, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Microservices
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840574815-senior-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Frontend: React, TypeScript
 * Infrastructure: Serverless Framework, Terraform
 * AWS cloud infrastructure, * 6+ years of software development experience
 * Previous experience leading engineering teams
 * Strong hands-on coding abilities in TypeScript and React
 * Experience with Serverless architectures and AWS
 * Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects
 * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
 * Experience mentoring and developing engineers
 * Strong system design and architectural skills, * Experience in SaaS or integration-heavy platforms
 * Knowledge of event-driven architectures
 * Background in scaling SaaS products
 * Experience with microservices architecture
 * Understanding of security best practices
 * Agile team leadership experience

## Description

Technical Leadership

 * Drive technical excellence and best practices across the team
 * Make key architectural decisions while collaborating with other technical leaders
 * Review and provide feedback on technical designs and implementations
 * Participate in hands-on development across the full stack
 * Lead by example in code quality, testing practices, and documentation
 * Help define and implement technical standards and processes

Team Management

 * Lead and mentor a team of software engineers
 * Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews
 * Support career development and growth of team members
 * Collaborate with product management to plan and execute project deliverables
 * Manage team capacity and help with sprint planning
 * Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement

Product & Delivery

 * Balance technical debt with feature delivery
 * Ensure system reliability and performance
 * Contribute to product strategy and roadmap planning
 * Manage technical dependencies and risks
 * Communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, * Opportunity to shape the technical direction of a growing SaaS platform
 * Collaborative engineering culture
 * Work with modern cloud-native technologies


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