Lead Full-Stack Engineer
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Programmers and software development professionals
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£54,700
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Description
Job Description
Lead Full-stack Engineer
London (Hybrid) | £75,000 - £100,000 depending on experience + benefits
The role
ustwo is looking for a Lead Full-stack Engineer to support the delivery of our projects.
This is a predominantly full-stack web development role, but extends to supporting
mobile app teams, depending on the project.
You will work collaboratively to solve difficult problems and build great features in a
cross-functional team of engineers, designers, product owners and delivery coaches.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines and
deliverables. You will help design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions.
You will work on projects that make a meaningful impact for our clients, their customers,
and the world. We work very hard to win interesting and challenging projects. Many of our
client relationships span multiple years and projects. We work across the project lifecycle,
from highly strategic discovery work to large-scale build projects and everything in
between.
Our teams work in a collaborative cross-discipline environment where everyone is
responsible for quality, and hence encouraged to look beyond their immediate role. It’s
also great fun working at ustwo!
How You’ll Spend Your Time
Lead Full-stack Engineer
London (Hybrid) | £75,000 - £100,000 depending on experience + benefits
The role
ustwo is looking for a Lead Full-stack Engineer to support the delivery of our projects.
This is a predominantly full-stack web development role, but extends to supporting
mobile app teams, depending on the project.
You will work collaboratively to solve difficult problems and build great features in a
cross-functional team of engineers, designers, product owners and delivery coaches.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines and
deliverables. You will help design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions.
You will work on projects that make a meaningful impact for our clients, their customers,
and the world. We work very hard to win interesting and challenging projects. Many of our
client relationships span multiple years and projects. We work across the project lifecycle,
from highly strategic discovery work to large-scale build projects and everything in
between.
Our teams work in a collaborative cross-discipline environment where everyone is
responsible for quality, and hence encouraged to look beyond their immediate role. It’s
also great fun working at ustwo!
How You’ll Spend Your Time
- You will design, develop, test, deploy, and improve digital products with a focus on full-stack development: from front-end, to backend, to infrastructure.
- You’ll work with delivery coaches and product/design leads to ensure we're building high-quality products as well as delivering the project on time, on budget.
- You’ll be expected to drive technical direction in projects and assure they meet scalability, robustness and security requirements.
- You will be responsible for the technical approach to problems, and getting the team aligned on a technical vision.
- You will be hands-on with projects, getting deep into code and be looked upon as a senior authority in software development.
- You will also spend lots of time working with client teams to agree on technical approach and constraints, interacting with client stakeholders, and socialising tech designs to varied audiences
- As a tech lead, part of your role is to uplift the tech team through mentoring, working collaboratively, and possibly line management if it’s a good fit for all involved.
- You’ll bring new ways of working and approaches to building solutions.
- You will be accountable for the technical delivery of the project by the team.
What We’re Looking For
- Excellent communication skills.
- Wide experience building secure, reliable, performant, and usable web applications.
- You can identify and apply the best design patterns for the problem at hand.
- Significant experience crafting the highest-possible quality user interfaces using HTML/CSS/JS.
- Significant experience of JS/TS/Node or at least one other server-side language.
- Experience deploying, securing, scaling, and monitoring in the cloud with deep experience of at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience working with infrastructure as code (using tools like Terraform)
- Awareness of modern front-end frameworks/libraries (React, Vue, Next, etc), with deep experience in at least one.
- Experience with databases (SQL / NoSQL / real-time, etc.)
- Experience of API design and API integration / testing / implementation (i.e. GraphQL, REST, etc.)
- Experience with version control and an opinion on its proper use.
- Experience with automated testing (e.g. unit, integration, API, etc.)
- Experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and typical integrations.
What we’re looking for here is potential and interest to learn. So, don’t stress if your skills don’t stretch across all these areas.
- Knowledge of latest enhancements in core web technologies along with browser support – to enable good recommendations for our implementation choices.
- Knowledge of CSS precompilers (PostCSS, Stylus, SASS) and CSS patterns.
- Experience leading the development of accessible, WCAG-compliant user interfaces.
- Interest in systems architecture, and demonstrated experience using diagrams to visualise complex ecosystems (or application designs) for varied audiences.
- You are a hands on, caring, resilient, patient, results-oriented, and humble person - you get things done.
- You foster community and are interested in bringing people together and making your team a great place to work.
- You’re human, and recognise humanity in others. This means both learning together and being able to speak to others, regardless of level/position, and empathise with their concerns
- You want to make great products that affect real people’s lives, at scale.
- You have a strong appetite to explore new technologies and share knowledge.
- You have a strong opinion on how to leverage AI effectively both as an individual and across a team.
- You welcome feedback and look to improve project development and understanding.