Senior Software Engineer
Are you an experienced Senior Software Engineer who enjoys greenfield development? As a Senior Software Engineer, have you enjoyed working in rapid scale-up environments where you've had direct access to senior leadership, significant influence on technical strategy alongside fostering a culture of best practice and technical innovation within your teams?
Our client is profitable, well-funded and growing at 30% YoY, and is looking for a Senior / Lead Engineer to run their Web Apps team. Having found product / market fit, this hire is now a key inflection point as they embark on a major re-engineering effort to position themselves for scale and to support the large backlog of clients ready to onboard to their platform.
As an established Lead / Senior Software Engineer, you'll have experience of the following:
- At least 10+ years commercial software engineering experience, across front and back-end tech stacks
- A STEM degree, with a solid understanding of software engineering / computer science fundamentals
- While a polyglot mindset is important, a background in a strongly typed OO language is highly valued (C#, Java), as is experience with React, JavaScript/Typescript on the front-end
- AWS preferably, though other public cloud experience is accepted
- Experience of building feature rich products that users love, while ensuring scalability, performance and security at all times
- Collaborating effectively with a technically astute product team
- Driving technical excellence across all stages of the product lifecycle
- Coaching, mentoring and growing an established mid-level team who are eager to learn from you
- Working in a start-up / scale-up environment where you enjoyed having a broad impact, close proximity to leadership and seeing first-hand the impact of your efforts
- Seeing the value being on-site 3 days a week has in building culture, fostering innovation, and supporting effective communication.
If you're an experienced Senior / Lead Engineer who is excited by greenfield development, rapid-scale and growing a team around you, we'd love to hear from you.
Strong senior software engineers are promised a response within 24 hours of application.
The Difference Engine is a recruitment company working on behalf of its client.