The Role
We have a vacancy for an experienced, highly motivated Software Development Tech Lead to work in an exciting and dynamic software engineering environment in Dublin. We want to see candidates who have a track record in developing high quality software, working within tight deadlines, and have a continuous improvement and customer-focused mindset. Experience in the travel or retail industry would be an advantage but not essential.
As a Datalex software development team lead you will be responsible for managing a geographically distributed team of highly skilled engineers. You will be a people manager as well as a software technical leader. You will be the software project teams key contact and will utilise well-developed communication skills to lead and facilitate effective problem solving/discussions to key stakeholders within the company. You will be technically hands-on with estimating features, planning, coding, debugging, design, performance and testing of team deliverables.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Ability to estimate, document, design, implement and test large features to the highest quality and take ownership of their delivery
2. Capable of taking part in technical and business discussions both internally and externally
3. Understand the business drivers behind each feature.
4. Ensure your team are delivering high quality product and platform functionality, on time and on budget
5. Mentor, motivate and train developers within your team both local and remotely.
6. Manage the translation of requirements into design and take ownership of documentation for your project deliveries.
7. Challenge the status quo – contribute and lead initiatives to improve the software development process. Think BIG!
Minimum Requirements
8. 5+ years of software industry experience with excellent proficiency in Java and Web Services
9. 2+ years managing a Software Engineering team ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product based company
10. Solid experience in design/development of highly available, distributed and scalable applications
Additionally, experience with some of the following is advantageous:
11. Good understanding of Agile principles with experience leading a Scrum/Kanban team
12. Webservice technologies: REST, SOAP
13. Development Tools: GIT, Gradle, Ant, Jenkins, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)
14. Communication Tools: Slack, Microsoft Teams
15. Database: Oracle or MongoDB
16. DistributedTechnologies: Spring, J2EE, Memcached
17. Test Automation frameworks: BDD, TestNG
18. Practical experience with DevOps concepts: CI/CD, ChatOps, etc.
19. Scripting levels sufficient for sysadmin, deployments, and API interaction an advantage
20. Familiarity with source control tools such as GIT
21. Strong organizational skills and written and oral communication in English, with other languages a benefit
22. Experience with the design and management of applications that support:
23. Minimizing single points of failure
24. Zero down-time upgrades
25. Auto scaling applications that have cold start challenges
26. Distributed applications
27. Implementing and using metrics to make data driven decisions
28. Building systems that negate the need for people to log into servers
29. Building apps that run-in containers.