Senior Software Engineer Leeds, England
Job description
Senior Software Engineer
Location: Leeds
Hours: Full-time
An enormous need exists to dramatically reduce energy use and carbon-emissions globally. The ambitious targets set by governments across the world mean that businesses, large and small, need to act and deploy strategies and technology to optimise their processes, assets, and buildings.
About Hark
Hark is an award-winning Energy Analytics and Industrial IoT company based in Leeds. Known for the innovative technology in our subscription cloud platform, were on a mission to improve efficiency, maximise yield and reduce waste.
The Hark Platform is helping alert Energy Managers and Asset Operators, through machine learning and advanced statistics, to abnormalities across their estate, informing actions such as preventative maintenance, regulatory compliance, asset control and energy management.
With the ability to connect to existing assets such as Building Management Systems, Energy Systems, Process Automation Controllers (used to power factories and industrial systems) the Hark Platform is enabling intelligent solutions across large estates connectivity, visibility, and intelligence.
Hark have deployed successful solutions within the Life Sciences sector for cold chain monitoring, a nationwide rollout of real-time energy monitoring capability for UK Supermarkets across 600+ locations, as well as licensed the technology to Fortune 500 companies in the industrial space.
Hark are controlling assets such as Lights, HVAC systems and Energy Storage assets for a varied set of purposes which creates future business opportunities, as these solutions use the same technology and same underlying core platform.
We are working with 2 of the top 4 supermarkets and have solutions deployed across retail, life sciences and manufacturing. The Hark Platform is helping alert Energy Managers and Asset Operators to abnormalities across their estate, informing actions such as preventative maintenance, regulatory compliance, asset control and energy management.
We are a thriving company run by a passionate team, striving to be thought and industry leaders.
The team is focussed on delivering maximum impact in a supportive, fast paced environment, driving innovation and best practice in everything we do by following our core values:
- Good by default
- Open to new ideas
- Always improving
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and talented Senior Software Engineer to lead internal product teams at Hark. Someone who is passionate about building cutting edge, scalable, resilient software, whilst building and supporting a team of engineers to achieve a product roadmap.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Hark you will work with a team of engineers, a product owner and the wider business to technically plan, organise, lead, and deliver features for the Hark Platform. You will be able to hit the ground running writing tested, shippable code to a high standard whilst maintaining existing systems.
Using your skills, you will build scalable cloud and edge software that handles hundreds of thousands of metrics every minute with pipelines to store, analyse and act on incoming data from real customer assets deployed in the field.
We are looking for someone who has experience:
- Leading a high-performance team of engineers
- Understanding customer problems and distilling them into product solutions
- Training and ensuring success of other engineers at various levels in their career
- Managing a teams engineering process (with a product owner)
- Writing technical and non-technical documentation and marketing material to share your teams hard work!
As a member of the team, you will have:
- Flexible working hours with the ability to work remotely
- The ability to take ownership, drive change, and grow our culture and company
- Quarterly social activities and team building exercises such as escape rooms and paintballing
- Choose whether you would like to work on a MacBook or Windows machine
Our Technology Stack:
- Microsoft Azure from CosmosDB, EventHubs to IoT Edge and Apache Spark
- Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform to operationalise our technology
- TypeScript, Node.JS
- C# - .NET Core
- Golang
- Python and R with Jupyter and Azure DataBricks
- Postgres (and Timescale), Redis, document and column-based storage engines
- RabbitMQ and Kafka-style commit logs
- Dapr
- React, Redux, React-Router, Styled-Components, Express
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GraphQL, MQTT
How you will succeed:
- Regular one-to-one progress reviews with your line manager
- Delivery of projects and tasks that meet the business or task requirements
- Projects are delivered on time with consistent communication
- Documents, code and other files when produced are consistent, high quality and at the standard the team expect
- Working with other members of the team to ship solutions together
- Sharing the knowledge with other members of your team to support customers and deployments
- Customers providing positive feedback about Hark and service delivery satisfaction is considered excellent
How we work:
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Azure DevOps for Git repositories, backlogs and Kanban boards, build and release management
- Backlog planning sessions with product owners and engineers
- Code reviews on all Pull Requests
- Automated pipelines for builds and releases with automated tests
- Daily stand-ups and regular retrospectives
- Lunch-and-learn sessions, hack-days and business catchups to share knowledge
- Environments for continuous integration, testing and production
Requirements
- Experience with writing technical and non-technical documentation, user guides, and internal marketing material
- Experience leading a high-performance team of engineers
- Experience working with customers and other business areas to understand customers and their problems, distilling them into product solutions
- Experience mentoring and training of fellow engineers at various levels in their career
- Experience in development within the .NET ecosystem or languages such as Java, Node, Go
- Demonstratable experience designing and building systems within a team
- Experience with Cloud Platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS
- Understanding of Git and branching methodologies in an agile fashion
- Experience with modern database technologies such as Postgres, Mongo or Cassandra (either relational or non-relational)
- Experience working in an agile team with a Continuous Delivery culture
- An aptitude and openness to learning new skills and technologies
- Knowledge on what goes into making a good API around areas including permanence, security and scalability
- Experience with, and a willingness to extend your skills in unit testing
