Lead Developer - Python / AWS

Company Description

Our client specialises in designing, developing, and integrating cloud-based software for the energy industry. They have over 20 years of experience, their products include Billing, CRM, Market Interaction, Smart Services, Pricing and Forecasting.

They are known for their market-leading offerings while maintaining flexibility, agility, and scalability in all our solutions. They currently have Four Developers in the Team and are looking for recruit a Lead Developer to Manage and grow the team to Ten Developers. In turn you will split the team into three Teams and add more Developers, as the company grows.

This is a very exciting role, with a chance to make a name for yourself and grow a small team working for a small business that is rapidly expanding. This is a very exciting time to join the business. They are a very relaxed business, and this is reflected in the work environment, they have lovely offices and are flexible on hours and Hybrid working.

Role Description

This new role entails leading our development team and with them delivering changes as part of an agile sprint cycle.

Developers are all full stack although, due to our meta data driven front ends, back-end work is predominant.

Developers are assigned to small dev teams, and these teams are self-managing being led either by the Head of Product Management, a Product Owner or a Senior Developer.

This is a matrix style reporting line where the work priority is co-ordinated by the team leads but the development process, standards and technical solutions are to be owned by this new role.

Recruiting, coaching, mentoring and progressing less experienced developers is a key component of this role as is being responsible for selecting and improving the technical tools used to deliver changes.

Technology Stack

• Full serverless cloud stack (AWS)
• SQL Database
• Python Back End
• Javascript / React Front End
• REST APIs
• AWS Facilities (S3 / SQS / API Gateway / Lamdba)

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Good experience of multi-tiered development via APIs
• Good experience using the technology stack specified
• Line management of developers
• Experience in the energy industry is a considerable plus

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