Team Lead
On-siteManchester, England, United Kingdom
Manchester, England, United KingdomOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLarge
Job Summary
Lead a team of four developers building internal applications using React, Node.js, and AWS event-driven architecture. Set technical direction, review code, and make architectural calls while coaching team members. Plan sprints, prioritize the backlog, and manage delivery risk alongside the Software Development Manager. Own incident response and root cause analysis for application issues. Work three days per week out of the central Manchester office.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ Years' Development Experience
- at least 3 years in a management or team-leading capacity
- mentoring and developing other engineers
- Strong React & Node.js Expertise
- Hands-on experience with React and Node.js in production
- solid understanding of AWS services and cloud architecture
- Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
- Database Knowledge
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, DocumentDB, DynamoDB)
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Experience designing or working within event-driven architectures (SNS, SQS, EventBridge or equivalent)
- People Leadership
- Excellent communication skills
- comfortable giving feedback and managing people
- ideally with experience leading a team of a similar size
- Ways of Working
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum, microservices or serverless architectures
- ideally experience within ecommerce or retail
- This role will be based out of our central Manchester office 3 days per week
Desired Qualifications
- ideally with experience leading a team of a similar size
- ideally experience within ecommerce or retail
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