Development Lead - JavaScript / Node

Job Description : The role

As a Lead Developer you will look after a team of developers, make recommendations for tools, maintenance, and testing strategies and assist with creating a maintainable application landscape alongside other Leads, Developers, and Architects.

As a Lead Developer you are expected to significantly impact and drive the software development function by leading the development and maintenance of applications that map our current business requirements to end-to-end technology solutions.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities :

Lead a software development project team (around 6 or more developers) and act as the technical expert, owning the development process;

• Analyse, design, develop, test, and deploy applications with a clean-code approach, acting as the most senior technical member of the team.
• Research new technologies, multi-tasking on multiple projects with other team members.
• Follow software development processes and coding conventions, using Agile / SCRUM principles and working closely with other Leads, Developers, Scrum Masters, Architects, and Testers.
• Break down detailed specifications and implement technical requirements based upon the needs of the company and its clients.
• Motivate and manage your development team, supporting and mentoring, conducting of routine performance coaching towards your direct support as required by the Management, acting by example and leading from the front.
• Troubleshoot issues in a timely manner in a highly scalable development environment.
• Contribute ideas to improve process and development practices.
• Work very closely with the SCRUM Master to coordinate and lead all required SCRUM meetings with stakeholders and product / business owners, ensuring all relevant information to the team and project are shared and discussed.
• Lead meetings with stakeholders / business analysts / developers / architects / clients in English.

Knowledge and Experience Required :

The Lead Full stack Developer should have excellent technical knowledge in analysing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions and their experience should include the following :

It would be nice to have additional technical understanding in the following areas :

Required Skills :

Environment React Messaging Analysts NoSQL Capital Architects Microservices DevOps Kubernetes Trading Business Requirements TypeScript Mentoring Developers Architecture Docker Software Development Coaching Banking Scrum Specifications Writing MySQL Documentation Research Software Testing JavaScript Maintenance Engineering Design Communication Business Science English Management