Lead Software Engineer (Manchester) Manchester, England
Job description
Are you a senior engineer look to take the next step. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with a high quality, continuous improvement and product-focused mindset who enjoys working as part of a team. Datalex also recognizes the need for a flexible, hybrid working model, thus offering remote-working opportunities.
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The Role
As a Lead Software Engineer you will be hands on, working with one of our full-stack engineering teams. You will be a key point of knowledge, escalation and mentorship, with your role encompassing development, providing technical support, and mentoring junior engineers. Transforming our platform to be software as a service, developing the next-gen SAAS marketplace for airlines. Adding capabilities to our existing suite for customers like Virgin, SAS, Jet Blue, and Aer Lingus to name but a few.
This is not a people management role but does involve mentoring junior developers.
Key Responsibilities:
- As the Lead Engineer in your Pod, your role will be split between development, providing technical support to the pod, and mentoring junior engineers.
- Supporting a co-located team of highly skilled engineers.
- Technically hands-on providing estimates, designing, coding, and debugging alongside the team.
- Providing third line engineering support to our customers
- Working as part of an Agile environment.
- Working closely with our quality and performance engineers.
Technical Skills / Knowledge/ Experience
Essential:
- Minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in Java development, Web Services and object orientated principles. Highly proficient knowledge of Java.
- 2+ years’ practical experience mentoring junior software engineers, ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product-based company.
- Excellent understanding of software development practices and have worked in multi-disciplined teams before.
- Solid experience in the development of highly available and scalable applications
- Ability to learn independently.
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable:
- Degree in Computing or Science.
- A good understanding of Agile principles whilst working with Scrum Teams.
- Expert Knowledge is some of these technologies: Spring, J2EE, Memcached, REST, SOAP, JBoss, Tomcat, JDBC, React, JavaScript.
- Practical experience with databases such as Oracle, Document DB and Mongo DB.
- Jenkins with a strong focus on pipelines and dev ops (SALT).
- Atlassian suite of products bitbucket/Jira/Confluence
About Datalex
Datalex is a market leader in digital commerce for travel retail. Datalex provides airlines with unique products to drive revenue and profit as digital retailers. Today the Datalex Digital Commerce Platform enables a travel marketplace of over one billion shoppers covering every corner of the globe, driven by some of the world’s most innovative airline retail brands. Datalex’s customers include Aer Lingus, Air Changan, Air China, Air Transat, Copa Airlines, Edelweiss, Emerald Airlines, Guangxi Beibu, Gulf Airlines, JetBlue Airways, KLM, SAS, Tianjin Airlines, Trailfinders, Turkish Airlines, Urumqi Air, Virgin Australia and West Air. Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the USA and China. Datalex plc is a publicly listed company on Euronext Growth.
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