Technical Lead (Payments)
Motorway
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You'll be responsible for the architecture, design, code quality, platform stability and resilience of the features your team produces - you don’t do it all, you work with your team to make it happen!
- Work with your team to scope complex tasks and projects, working closer with the Product Manager to break them down into smaller, tangible tasks and stories
- Be a people leader – You'll lead, mentor and promote career growth by providing feedback, learning & development opportunities to the engineers in your team, being their direct manager
- Partner with your Product Manager and Engineering Manager to help with decisions around prioritisation, work division, goal setting and tech debt
- Develop new features - at least 50% of your time, preferably 70% should be writing new features
- Engineer a better code base with your team
- Help evolve development standards and processes
- Model the behaviour you want to see in the team
- Significant commercial experience with JavaScript. In particular, experience with ES6, Node.js and Typescript.
- Excellent communication skills. You're capable of bridging the gap between engineering and stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience leading technical teams.
- Experience designing and implementing architecture
- Micro Services/Distributed Systems Experience
- Experience planning and confirming technical specs for features or system design (Convert requirements from stakeholders to tasks that need to be implemented).
- Experience of agile software development practices and working collaboratively in a team environment
- You enjoy helping other Engineers become better Engineers
- Be hands-on with development teams, you’ll understand what good code looks like and see the bigger picture, taking architecture into consideration with a DevSecOps mindset.
- Previous experience working in a company scaling up is useful, but not essential.
- A competitive salary
- Annual learning budget - you can choose how you like to learn and find the best learning experiences to support your progression.
- BUPA health insurance
- Discounted dental through BUPA
- Discounted gym membership through BUPA
- On-Hand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
- Hybrid working from home (approximately 1-2 days in the office a week)
- Pension scheme
- Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
- Enhanced parental leave
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Top spec M1 MacBook Pro and accessories
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme