Chapter Lead Engineer
Feefo Holdings Ltd, United Kingdom
Job Description
Feefo helps both consumers and businesses make the right decisions.
Founded in 2010, Feefo works with 6,000+ brands worldwide to collect reliable and constructive reviews they can learn from and display. We invite confirmed customers to leave feedback, which results in reliable, fake-free reviews, so consumers can learn how people like them feel about different products and services. And companies can discover what they’re doing right, and where they can improve. This allows Feefo’s clients to create transparent, trusted relationships and deliver exceptional services that their customers can depend on - every time.
We’re a team of technology specialists, industry experts, and multi-lingual client services champions that operates across various sectors, including travel, retail, automotive, and finance. Feefo’s bespoke artificial intelligence, business insight, review software and compliance solutions help increase client sales and reduce churn. As a Google Premier Partner, our clients can improve their search and paid conversion rates too.
We are proud to work with companies, large and small, from household names to local heroes.
To learn more visit: www.feefo.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Requirements
As an Engineering Chapter Lead at Feefo, you will spearhead a multidisciplinary engineering team with a key focus on developing scalable, performant backend systems using a microservice architecture in Java. Your leadership will ensure these systems can grow effectively alongside our expanding business, advocating for and implementing modern industry best practices. You are expected to foster personal development within your team, encouraging a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning. Understanding the principles of front-end technologies, particularly REACT, will enable you to facilitate seamless integration between our Java-based microservices and the user interface.
Personal Contributions
- You will work as a software engineer within an agile squad, leading by example in adhering to the team’s agile methodologies and development principles, translating requirements into performant and scalable solutions, always striving for continuous improvement. We expect about 80% of your time will be apportioned to this aspect of your role.
- Participate in translating the Product Owners desired business outcomes into actionable requirements and solutions.
- Software maintenance and support, improvements and bug fixes, will always be necessary in a large complex system.
- Work with the Engineering Leadership and other Chapter Lead Engineers to lead continuous improvement through research and adoption of new technologies, tools and processes to use within the development team (aka the Coding Guild).
- Unit testing is essential, as well as technical documentation, both as inline code comments and as knowledge sharing documents for use by peers.
- A DevOps mentality is required: Close collaboration with the Cloud Infrastructure Team support software CI/CD, configuration management and monitoring.
Line Management
- You will lead and mentor your team of software engineers in adhering with team coding standards, best practices and conventions to foster an engineering culture of autonomy, innovation and quality solutions.
- Support squad and cohesion through regular team meetings. Encourage team members to share knowledge and lessons learnt.
- Support the career progression and personal development software engineers in your Chapter. Maintain a software engineer skills matrix for each engineer to facilitate the process.
- Foster technical excellence in an agile development culture.
- Take ownership of all work developed by members of your team.
- Inspire and motivate team members.
- Be knowledgeable about each member of your Chapter, their strengths, weaknesses and effectiveness.
Requirements
- You should ideally have experience as a Senior Engineer / Team Lead, Development Project Lead, or similar.
- 5+ years of commercial experience in either or both of the following, or the ambition and determination to master the other proficiency: Front end - modern JavaScript frameworks, preferably REACT (our stack is React, Redux, Styled Components and TypeScript) Server side Rest APIs and object orientated language, preferably Java 8 or higher. Working with databases, both relational/SQL and NoSQL. Spring development. Micro-services docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience of working with co-located and remote developers.
- Experience of Agile development design principles.
- Source version control, ideally Git.
- Development using industry standard best practices.
- Test driven development experience.
- Working knowledge of Continuous Integration so