Engineering Lead - London, United Kingdom - Camascope (formerly named VCare Systems)

Description

Job Description

Role Title: Engineering Lead )

Reporting to: CTO

Location: Farringdon, London (Hybrid)

Job Type: Permanent

About us

Camascope is a fast-growing technology company focused on empowering the care and medication sector with technology. We are a team of talented, caring, and ambitious individuals who are committed to making a difference in care. Our ecosystem connects pharmacies, care homes, and doctors to improve the lives of many.

There has never been a better time to join Camascope. Our team is growing and our product is reaching more users and partners every day. You will join a collaborative and passionate team. We love solving real problems and are committed to building the highest-quality solutions. If you are eager to make a meaningful impact in healthcare and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment, Camascope will be the perfect place for you.

What you will work on

As an Engineering Lead ) at Camascope you will be an integral part of the team that works to scale, enhance and add features to our core EMAR product, by leading a team of engineers focussed on both evolving the product stack as well as adding new features. In the role of a core contributor you will collaborate with the cross-functional teams and a variety of internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-quality software as we continue to improve and add features to our successful care and medication products. We want you to bring your skill and experience to bear, to help us shape the team and the product, and further our journey as a company with increasingly feature rich software products. You will work closely with our technical and product learnership to help inform and shape our product, delivery and technology strategy, and will work closely with the product engineering team to help implement, enhance and evolve the features of our software. In addition, you will be responsible for helping to hire, mentor and provide guidelines to future engineers joining the team.

We are seeking people who are excellent communicators, proactive collaborators and able to break down complex requirements to go on to design and develop sensible, modern and scalable software solutions. We are looking for experienced and adaptable software engineering leads who can begin with a lean approach to solving problems in code and iterate it to full featured, well architected solution, that can continue to perform well and be evolved as the products mature and new needs are identified; whilst also setting the standard of how we work and growing the capability of other team members.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a cross-functional team of 4-5 engineers, intending to grow this to 6-8 within the next year; whilst also collaborating with another team (and peers) on the overall software ecosystem
• Design, engineer and deliver new functionality and features, or enhancement to existing features, using appropriate technologies and techniques
• Keep our customers and care home patients at the heart of everything we build
• A strong focus on continuous delivery including ensuring testing and security measures are embedded into CI/CD pipelines, and enabling the development of secure, scalable, high quality software through the adoption of DevSecOps practices and tools
• Invest in continuously improving our application by identifying blockers, impediments, deficiencies and waste, proactively working to resolve them
• Make significant contributions to technical and product decisions, and the technology roadmap
• Have both a learning and teaching mindset, and actively mentor others in the team
• Be accountable for the full software development lifecycle from initial code to production, including testing, deployment and monitoring
• Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
• Work in an agile team-oriented environment, collaborating with other Engineers, Designers and Product Managers to achieve product outcomes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar.
• 5 or more years of industry experience as an Engineering Lead ), with a strong portfolio of applications.
• Deep understanding of app development frameworks, libraries, and tools. In-depth understanding of the ecosystem.
• Experience with cloud based DevOps practices, including continuous integration and deployment, specifically with experience of Azure DevOps in production environments
• Expert understanding of RESTful APIs and their implementation, monitoring and security concerns (e.g. OWASP API Security)
• Ability to optimise application performance, memory usage, and overall efficiency.
• Demonstrable understanding of software design and architecture principles.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills with a fix forward and learn mindset
• Good understanding of database technologies, message queues and data security.
• Capable and comfortable working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and upskilling your team on how to do this well
• Understand the test pyramid and the engineer's role in testing
• Have previously lead a small to medium team and have a solid understanding of leadership responsibilities and people growth
• This is hands-on engineering role, with team mentorship and line management responsibilities of a small team
• Able to put the Azure Well-Architected Framework into practice when building software

Bonus points for:

• Previous experience in early-stage start-ups or scale-ups
• Having worked in Health Care or Pharmacy tech previously
• Hands-on experience with React (for web) and/or Flutter (for apps)
• Experience with Authentication and Identity Access Management systems
• Understand and have applied TDD