Lead Software Engineer

Full-stack application development using NodeJS, Express, and React in a TypeScript stack to create, maintain, and support a near-real-time reporting and visualisation platform from the API layer outward. This role involves planning discussions, team interactions, and creating feature proposals while serving as a core member of the engineering team building a platform focused on optimised processes, maintainability, and accountability.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and lead the successful implementation of solutions for the platform and occasionally broader technology teams.
• Lead the development of frameworks, environments, build systems, and tooling for the platform.
• Lead platform-level support of visualisation tools for enterprise reporting through APIs and embedded reporting.
• Lead the unification of numerous tools into a consistent and coherent application.
• Lead strategic analysis of existing technologies, future projects, and execution options.
• Define project and platform architecture and drive its adoption.
• Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience.
• Write concise, optimised, and well-tested code.
• Lead team discussions and planning sessions.
• Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation.
• Deliver functional and supportable products as part of an agile development team.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers, technical program managers, and partner teams to decompose complex problems into simple, reusable solutions.
• Write documentation for platform functionality and processes to support knowledge transfer.
• Review teammates' code and pull requests for quality, standards alignment, and test coverage.
• Mentor other engineers and support the broader engineering community on technical issues.
• Promote clean code practices and shared-code best practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in software development, including automated testing of front-end and back-end services.
• Proficiency in application development using NodeJS and React with JavaScript and TypeScript.
• 7+ years of experience in full-stack application development with GraphQL and Postgres.
• 7+ years of experience delivering high test coverage using unit and front-end testing frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience building cross-functional and broadly scoped platforms.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Extensive experience with Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, EKS, and ECS.
• Extensive experience developing and maintaining CI/CD environments.
• Extensive experience with front-end visualisation of large data sets using tools such as D3 and Linkurious.
• Extensive experience with testing libraries and frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, and Jest.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to deliver projects on time.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Highly motivated and self-starting.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with in-house LLM infrastructure and software or OpenAI tools, including training others.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms such as Druid, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• Experience maintaining and collaborating on a shared React component library.
• Experience creating and maintaining documentation.
• Experience developing applications on cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals.
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis.