Software Engineering Lead: GenAI, Cloud & Mentorship

Talent Octopusventures; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cirium is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to design, develop, and improve enterprise software across the full development lifecycle. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion modern engineering practices, including GenAI, to deliver scalable aviation analytics platforms.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex data requirements into reliable software solutions, driving performance, security, and cost efficiency across cloud

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering within Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong programming experience across Java, Python and/or Node.js with test-driven development.
• Hands-on cloud experience with AWS and/or GCP and familiarity with EKS, ECS, Lambda, SQS.
• Experience containerising and using Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm.
• Experience with large-scale data technologies (Snowflake, Postgres, Redshift or equivalents).
• Knowledge of modern tooling (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Maven, Cucumber, mocking frameworks).
• Ability to design and document technical solutions and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentoring others and contributing to an inclusive engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, refactor, test and maintain reliable enterprise software and services.
• Lead technical design, code reviews, testing and root-cause analysis to maintain high-quality codebase.
• Translate complex product and data requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, customer support, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and deliver products.
• Improve engineering practices, development environments, system performance, security and code quality.
• Contribute to project planning, delivery, system stability and cloud cost management.
• Explore and introduce GenAI and other relevant technologies.
• Mentor and coach engineers, delegate effectively and support people-management activities.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Java

Python

Node.js

Test-driven development

Automated testing

GitHub/GitHub Actions

Maven

Cucumber

Cloud experience (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Snowflake

Postgres

Redshift

Data platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

Snowflake

Postgres

Redshift

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Maven

Cucumber

Job description

Cirium is seeking a Software Engineering Lead to design, develop, and improve enterprise software across the full development lifecycle. You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and champion modern engineering practices, including GenAI, to deliver scalable aviation analytics platforms.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex data requirements into reliable software solutions, driving performance, security, and cost efficiency across cloud