[Hiring] Lead Developer @Informa Group Plc.

Role Description

We are currently looking to bring on a talented, self-motivated and conscientious Tech Lead to work in our busy development of our submission platform focusing on helping researchers publish to leading journals. You will work with like-minded talented engineers towards enriching the experience of our users and partners and report to the Engineering manager.

• Contribute to all aspects of the services under the team’s ownership, which includes design, implementation, refactoring, automated testing, deployment, and uptime of the services.
• Help other team members grow as engineers through code review, pairing, and mentoring.
• Leading 1 or more scrum teams to design & deliver epics & stories the backlogs.
• Improve internal team processes by keeping what's working, throwing away what's not.
• Help set the vision of the services under the team's ownership.
• Help align the roadmap based on customer and company desires.
• Build the technology the right way: for us, this means simple, well-tested services that gradually grow over time, and that provide plenty of insight into production performance.

Qualifications

• Being passionate about your craft and want to be surrounded by like-minded individuals.
• Ability to clearly communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to multitask in a dynamic environment.
• Possess a good understanding of continuous delivery, writing unit tests and automated testing.
• Prior experience delivering using Agile on at least 1 key project.
• Comfortable working at all tiers of modern applications, from the frontend all the way to the database.
• Do TDD/BDD all day.
• Enjoy working with any and all technologies like Java, Javascript, MySQL, Angular, Node, MongoDB and love playing around with AWS.
• Must have a very strong knowledge of how the web works and how to make it efficient (HTTP, caching, page rendering, sockets, etc).
• Must possess solid software development fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, problem solving, OO design, and system architecture).
• Must have exposure to Microservice Architecture, Domain Driven Design, REST APIs.
• Care about great design, not only in the product and visual sense, but also in your code and technical architecture.
• Have experience managing Git and release workflow.
• Have a BE/Msc - Computer Science.
• Have a minimum 8+ years in Java/Javascript programming experience.

Benefits

• 24 days annual leave.
• 4 volunteering days annually.
• Day off for your birthday.
• Pension contributions.
• Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self.
• Seasonal social and charitable events.
• Training and development.
• Blended style and flexi working time.
• Right tools for remote working.