Lead Back-End Software Engineer (LDN OFFICE BASE) £85000 - £110000

Lead Back-End Software Engineer (LDN OFFICE BASE) £85000 - £110000Department: EngineeringEmployment Type: PermanentLocation: London, UKCompensation: £85,000 - £110,000 / yearDescriptionBased in our London Bond Street Office and reporting directly to the Director of Engineering and Product you will have oversight and responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the backend systems and APIs required to support our mobile and web applications.You will also work closely with the CogX product team to identify, scope and implement the necessary features on our product roadmap.At CogX we operate a “hybrid working philosophy” in the belief that connecting as colleagues accelerates thought, actions and delivery. With offices in Vauxhall, London you will be comfortable driving collaboration days in office as required to support high level projects.Key Responsibilities
Providing technical leadership for the backend engineering team
Mentoring other members of the team
Setting standards for code quality and establishing best practices
Writing and maintaining backend code that drives our mobile and web clients
Defining architecture and choosing tools
Working closely with the Product, Design and Data Science teams
Working closely with the frontend team to integrate our APIs into our client apps
Working as an effective member within our agile/scrum based environment
Participating in code reviews
Writing automated tests
Creating and enhancing the test infrastructure for our application
Integrating with third party analytics tools and other third party APIs
Integrating with CI/CD tools such as Codeship, Github and others
Skills Knowledge and ExpertiseThe preferred candidate MUST have
Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
Experience in engineering leadership roles
Confidence taking ownership of the end-to-end software development process
Ability to work independently within the framework of objective-based management, rather than task-based.
Strong experience of backend development using Python
Strong experience building modern web and mobile app backend using RESTful APIs
Ability to design and implement system architectures involving data pipelines, APIs, and multiple data stores.
Strong knowledge of different types of data store, including SQL databases, key-value stores, and graph databases
Experience integrating data science models into system architectures.
Experience building APIs for both web and mobile apps
The preferred candidate SHOULD have
Familiarity with Heroku
Familiarity with AWS
Familiarity with Django
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