Staff Software Engineer

Job Description Summary

Experienced Technical Lead to lead a cross-functional team of developers and QA engineers responsible for a customer-facing web application. The role requires strong hands-on technical leadership, product collaboration, cloud expertise and a focus on engineering quality, security and delivery.tex

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to developers and QA engineers.
• Drive solution design, technical decisions, code quality and engineering best practices.
• Partner with Product teams to translate business requirements into low-level technical requirements, technical stories and estimates.
• Lead design/code reviews and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, reliable and maintainable.
• Own technical resolution of complex production issues and security vulnerabilities, including application, runtime and open-source dependencies.
• Drive engineering metrics covering quality, automation, security, technical debt and delivery predictability.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, QA, Security and Cloud/DevOps teams.
• Mentor engineers and build strong technical capabilities within the team.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a technical leadership role preferred.
• Proven experience leading technically complex solutions and providing technical direction to cross-functional engineering teams.

Technical Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience with React.js, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript and GraphQL.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and Solr or similar search technologies.
• Strong cloud experience, particularly AWS Lambda, RDS and S3, with exposure to Microsoft Azure.
• Good understanding of REST/API design, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, performance optimisation and production troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of web/API security, secure coding practices and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience designing and supporting scalable customer-facing web applications.