Technical Lead - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - Spinbox

Spinbox

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Position
:
Technical Lead

Location
:
Wolverton, Milton Keynes, (MK12)

Salary
:
£55,000 - £65,000 plus bonus

Lets start with the fun stuff, what do you get for being an awesome member of the team?

Benefits:

Let's start with the fun stuff, what do you get for being an awesome member of this team?
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Flexible working _- we don't clock watch or expect you at your desk at 9am sharp.
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WFH_

We operate a hybrid working model, allowing you to work from home on some days and office on other days.

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Bonus_

As much as we like to reward via salary, if collectively we are doing better than expected, then we like to share the rewards.

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Private Healthcare_ - (for UK residence) After 3 years of service, we include you in our awesome workplace healthcare cover. We also give options to include your partner and children.
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Gym Membership_ - healthy body = healthy mind. We have a free gym membership at BST Gym.
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Fun Days & Xmas - _We do like to have fun, games and simulators around the office and Karting & socials, our main bash is always Xmas.
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Annual Leave -_There is no point always working if not taking some time to enjoy it. So we give 25 days off + bank holidays.
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Training -_We are all about learning and upgrading our skills. So find a training course and most likely the budget will get approved. Plural sight is standard for all the team and we encourage booking learning time in work hours too.

The role:

As the Technical Lead, your technical knowledge must be on point. From system architecture, development standards, computer science and a love of coding is a must.

In addition to this, is your management skills, with planning, decision making and ability to lead a team of developers.

We want to bring excellence to the team and this best done through leading by example.

Therefore your
skills and experiences should cover:

5 years + as part of a development team
2 year + as senior developer or lead role
Strong communication skills
ASP.NET, C#, Ajax, Javascript, ORM, MVC, API's, Angular,.NETCore
Microservices, Kubernetes, Azure App/ Services
Firm grasp of Agile methodology
Fanatical about coding standards, code reviews and security principles
SQL Server & Mongo DB
DevOps, SourceControl, Azure Services
CMS experience (Sitecore, Sitefinity, Umbraco, Kentico or any.

NET based CMS)

Ability to multitask, ambition, team lead, always looking for free pens, drawn to shiny things, love comfortable chairs, and stare at people with a blank expression when something non logical is said

The position requires:

A lead or senior backend software engineer who takes pride in their work and building great software.

Working with the existing team you will establish yourself as a leader by example to include:

Coding directly within the team. You will have the ability to set coding standards and processes within the team.
Supporting the Engineering team with development tasks including pair programming, solution finding and code reviews.
Technical writing, planning and scoping.
Support the business expectation throughout the project's delivery and escalating risk to project managers.
Recognise when that design isn't appropriate for the task at hand and raise as risks to the project's timelines
Mentor and support individuals technical abilities within the team
Supporting the team in architecting our larger builds, ensuring they scoped and estimated correctly, secure, stable and robust.
Ensuring that we are using the right tools and people on a project for the task at hand, eliminating risk surrounding over engineering a solution.
Working directly within the engineering team taking ownership of a project and leading the project till the team is self sufficient or fulfilled.
To have commercial awareness of project delivery process and managing stakeholder and project manager expectations.