Dev/Tech Lead

Third Republic Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

25 days paid leave

Sick pay

Pension

Job summary

Third Republic Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior tech lead to provide strong technical direction, lead a small team of developers, and implement the technical vision across our microservices powering the merchant onboarding portal, SaaS services and core acquiring platform.

You will collaborate with engineers, architects and product teams on platform architecture, security, reliability and scalability, while promoting best practices such as CI/CD, TDD/BDD and automated testing.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring/JPA and RESTful services.
• Experience with Microservices architecture and containers (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Proven track record with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Relational databases and SQL tuning experience.
• Agile SDLC familiarity and collaborative, cross-functional teamwork.
• Ability to work remotely with strong self-management.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong technical direction and own delivery of features.
• Lead a small development team and mentor engineers.
• Own multiple microservices used by onboarding, SaaS and acquiring platforms.
• Collaborate on platform architecture, integration, performance and security.
• Promote engineering best practices and tool adoption.
• Support product design and system reliability improvements.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring/JPA

RESTful services

CI/CD

TDD/BDD

Agile methodologies

Docker/Kubernetes

Microservices design

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL tooling

Job description

We are exclusively working with a Fintech company who are shaping the Banking/Finance industry with their innovative and scalable technology platform.

As a business the thrive of the start to finish attitude, someone who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty and solve complex problems, high energy and comfortable working outside of rigid structure and frameworks.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Provide strong technical direction
• Lead a small team of developers
• Responsible for implementing the technical vision as defined and managing the technical deliverables.
• Own multiple components of their internal/external Microservices which forms the basis of their merchant onboarding portal, SaaS services and core acquiring platform.
• Working side-by-side with other engineers, leads and architects on platform architecture, integration (internal/external), performance and security to create a powerful platform
• You will have the opportunity to contribute to Product Design, Architecture, System Reliability and Scalability of their service.
• Ensuring the teams uses engineering best practices such: CI/CD, TDD/BDD, Automated Testing
• Influencing the adoption of best tools for completing day to day development tasks

What You'll Bring to the Role:

• Java/J2EE and other concepts including OO & Service Design in JSON or RESTful
• Strong Knowledge of Java 8 and above as well as Spring/JPA
• Good understanding of CI/CD, TDD practises
• Previous experience with relational Databases and SQL tuning
• Strong experience with Agile methodologies & SDLC
• Experience with containers (Kubernetes, Docker etc)
• Microservice Design and development Rest, JSON, XML

This is a remote based role, where you can be based anywhere in the UK (must have the right to work and live in the UK). In the future, the role will be based in London and a commute of 2 times a month will be required to travel to the office.

• Bonus
• 25 days paid leave
• Sick pay
• Pension
• Salary up to £95 PA