Software Lead Engineer

Role Overview

A Senior Software Engineer with a passion for quality, and proven experience of full stack software development and design, is required for a variety of digital projects being delivered for Jaguar Land Rover in Manchester. We are looking for great engineers who have a passion for innovative problem solving, quality-first coding and practicing Continuous Integration.

• Would you thrive in an exciting, dynamic and creative start-up environment, but also enjoy the security, resources and influence of an established and successful organisation?
• Would you excel within a world-class and passionate team that loves what they do?
• Are you passionate about mentoring and sharing your skills with fellow developers?

You will form part of a collaborative, iterative and agile process in a multi-disciplined team helping deliver best in class digital solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to help support and grow an entirely new software development capability within Jaguar Land Rover.

Reporting to the Principal Software Engineer and working closely with other multi-disciplined engineers, you will be a valued member of the Global Digital Development Centre team, consistently delivering to challenging business objectives, with a focus on testability, robustness, and performance for exciting new projects. You will work on real projects alongside experienced engineers and will be expected to take on some mentoring and coaching of less experienced engineers in the lab.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Software design and code development to internal standards and practises
• Guide and lead the development of parts of the software system
• Contribute to CICD and DevOps practises
• Support all agile development ceremonies
• Coach and mentor junior developers
• Lead on Issue investigation and resolution
• Define and implement technical roadmaps for key areas of focus in the code base
• Implementation of all applicable testing for software
• Lead / Implement code reviews where appropriate
• 7x24 support per requested

Skills

Our Software Development Lead Engineer should have:

• 8+ years experience with Java, Spring Boot or another OO language
• OR 8+ years experience with JavaScript (ES6/7/8)
• OR 8+ years experience building APIs

We are keen to speak to people who also have the following skills:

• 8+ years experience developing bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native applications
• Strong experience with database technologies such as NoSQL i.e. Mongo DB or similar
• Strong experience with API development and technologies
• Experienced advocate for practices such as Test Driven Development
• Experience with Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
• Strong Object Oriented programming skills
• Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
• Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
• Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of developers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The following skills and experience are nice to have:

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience with Kubernetes or other cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with polyglot persistence and experience with a MySQL
• Familiarity with Kafka, Okta, Redis, Apache Solar, Apigee