Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Engineer – Mobile Application

Location Burgess Hill, UK (Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract

We are looking for a highly motivated, independent, and skilled engineer to build the mobile application service layer (backend for front end) for the upcoming iOS and Android travel mobile application

Essential Criteria:

• software development experience in a professional environment such as:

• Experienced in designing, programming, testing, and application design for microservices or backend for front ends for mobile applications using Kotlin or Java 17 and above, Spring and build automation with Maven or Gradle.

• Observability – Sentry, ELK, Dynatrace.

• Experienced technically leading an agile engineering team and contributing to agile ceremonies.

• Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github Actions, Circle CI.

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required, advanced degree preferred.

Application Solutioning:

• Architect and design the rails based on domain driven design in collaboration with solution architect, staff engineer, business architects and consumer partners.

• Present solutions on an ongoing basis in wider forums including senior leaders to seek feedback, make continuous adjustments and drive sign offs.

• Document architecture, technical requirements, high-level and low-level designs to include component design, data models, integration views, infrastructure design and software technology stack.

• Conduct quantitative comparative analysis on solution options.

Software Development:

• Sets up the infrastructure and the development environments.

• Writes and delivery high quality code in latest versions of Kotlin

• Leads review of colleague’s work

• Builds monitoring dashboards and logging & alerting strategies.

• Monitors system performance and availability and improves software quality through root cause analysis.

• Deep understanding of infrastructure technologies and components

• Has deep understanding of the core tools used in the planning, analysing, crafting, building, testing, configuring, and maintaining of assigned application(s)

Leadership:

• Prepares and presents solutions and progress updates to product and technology leadership

• Collaborates and communicates effectively across engineering and enterprise teams.

• Mentors and coaches junior team members

• Influences team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking.

• Demonstrates increased self-reliance to achieve team goals.