Senior Software Engineer - Manchester Area, United Kingdom - FORT

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    Technology / Internet
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    The Opportunity

    Our client was founded in 2009 as a response to the dissatisfaction with available customer relationship management services. They identified a gap where existing solutions were either overly simplistic or excessively complex for the majority of businesses. Their goal is to offer a rejuvenated experience for business owners—a contemporary CRM that fosters organisation, maximises sales potential, and delivers excellent user experience along with outstanding customer support.

    The Why? (TOP 3 as we could put far more in there)

    • Culturally technology is right at the heart of this organisation - their business model is based around the quality of their product so you are joining a truly tech driven organisation.
    • The business are looking to scale rapidly so opportunities to take on leadership roles aren't very far away.
    • Very low attrition in the organisation with engineers median length of employment around 7 years showing when people join they are absolutely looked after

    The What?

    Our client is looking for a Senior level Java engineer with experience of co-ordinating a small development team - focussed around building out a data streaming team - details below:

    • Any experience or interest within leadership, mentoring or managing individual contributors.
    • Solid experience with Java or Scala.
    • Strong data & messaging experience testing software with technology like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Grafana, HiveMQ, Prometheus etc.
    • Experience with relational database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB or similar
    • Experienced advocate for practices such as Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming
    • Experience building automation tests.
    • Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (AW) would be heavily used

    The Benefits? (Skinny)

    • Hybrid/Flexi hours
    • Choice of company smartphone & laptop
    • Private medical, dental and optical insurance
    • Pension scheme with generous matched contributions
    • & more

    And finally.. Who are we?

    FORT - Future of Recruiting Technologists is a technical & IT search consultancy that specialises in placing experienced professionals & teams with leading technology companies in the North of England.

    We strive to provide our candidates with the most transformative opportunities available. For our clients we understand that technical expertise alone does not make for the best employee. We take time to ensure a strong cultural and technical fit through deep understanding of our client's business and project needs. Ultimately, we pair technologists with businesses based on more than just skills.

    Our values and standards are the bedrock of every interaction; Continual Development, Compassion and Consistency.

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