Senior Software Engineer (Web Application Engineering)

Are you an experienced Lead Engineer looking who enjoys green field development? As a Lead 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, profitable, well-funded and growing at 30% YoY, is looking for a Lead Engineer to run their Web Apps team. Having found product/market fit, now is 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 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 life cycle
• 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 4 days a week has in building culture, fostering innovation, and supporting effective communication.

If you re an experienced Lead Engineer who is excited by greenfield development, rapid-scale and growing a team around you, we'd love to hear from you.

Strong lead engineers are promised a response within 24 hours of application.

The Difference Engine is a recruitment company working on behalf of its client.