Lead Developer

Apache Associates; Rotherham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A rapidly expanding Software House seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join their team near Rotherham. This role involves leading projects, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring adherence to best development practices. This opportunity offers a hybrid work environment and potential career advancement within the company.

Benefits

Excellent work environment

Strong team ethic

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of SQL database design and query design.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience gained within an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced commercial environment.
• Ensure projects are on-time, to specification, and of high quality.
• Mentor junior members through code reviews and guidance.

Skills

SQL database design

Agile experience

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Mentorship

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Rapidly expanding Software House requires a Lead Software Engineer to join their team. You will be responsible for providing Technical; lead o projects, having an input to the design and solution provided, as well as ensuring the team adopts leading development practices. Will also help junior team members through code reviews and sharing insight and advice to help upskill.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Dealing with multiple concurrent projects, within a fast-paced, commercial environment
• Ensure that all development projects are implemented on-time, to specification and are of the highest quality
• Monitor on-going project progress and report to project & team management
• Ensuring best practices and industry guidelines are adhered to across the Development Team
• This role will involve development of new applications and/or development of additional functionality to existing products, as well as delivering fixes for customers
• Conducting testing on own code
• Devise own work schedule in order to deliver against assigned priorities, in-line with project timescales
• Escalate problems that need to be addressed by Leadership team and provide solutions and workarounds
• Mentoring Junior members of the development team, including carrying out code reviews for Juniors & Peers, making suggestions to increase quality

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong knowledge of SQL database design and query design
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to work within a cross-functional team and provide support to more Junior members of staff
• Experience gained within an Agile environment
• Knowledge of industry standard methodologies
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure: Web Apps (Storage, Azure SQL and Cosmos Db) would be highly beneficial

This role is Hybrid – 3 days on site (offices near Rotherham) and 2 days from home.

The company can offer an excellent work environment, with a strong team ethic and fast-paced, high tech sector. Good chances to develop your career in to Team Lead / Management for the right individual.

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