Lead Software Engineer - Homeworking

Are you a Senior Developer/Engineer or an existing Lead, with a passion for technology, looking to join and lead an ambitious and growing cross-functional DevOps team?
As a Lead Software Engineer you will be hands-on working in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven engineering team. You will be providing technical leadership to the Platform team, as well as collaborating with our Solution & Infrastructure Architects to help translate architecture into solution design. As well as technically leading the Platform engineering team, you will be joining a wider community of technical leads, each of who work within the various product engineering teams, to help drive technical best practice across the PayPoint CTO function.
This position will be based working remotely with the occasional visit fortnightly/monthly to our bright and modern offices in Welwyn Garden City.
Desinging, developing and maintaining scalable technical solutions that support the ongoing growth of the business
Ensuring that the application lifecycle, quality assurance, database engineering and build and deployment tasks are in place and understood by the team
Actively participating in driving continuous improvement in the team’s processes, software tools and output
Helping to shape the team’s ways of working with the Delivery Manager and Product Owner
Assisting with translating technical solutions into language that non-technical staff will understand
Being committed to deliver high quality well tested software as part of an agile team
Being part of an out of hours support rota to ensure that the applications, systems and services in your area run smoothly at all times
Strong experience as a software engineer or developer, ideally as a senior or staff engineer
Azure Cloud (Networking, Storage, Kubernetes, App Services, API Manager, Monitoring)
.NET Core / .NET 6+
.NET Framework (version 3.5+) and C#
Java
Web Development (HTML, CSS & SaSS, JavaScript, JQuery, node.js, ECMAScript)
Web API (RESTful)
Front-end frameworks (e.g. SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored Procedures)
No-SQL (Cosmos Db)
Unit Test Framework (NUnit, MSTest, or xUnit.net), Integration Testing
Source Control, Build and Deployment Tools (Azure DevOps and GIT)
Agile (Scrum, Kanban) or DevOps environment experience, TDD/Unit Testing, CI/CD
It would be great if you already have…
Experience in CRM systems development (e.g. Salesforce)
ServiceNow)
Azure Service Bus)
Microsfot SSIS and SSRS
Experience in Android development frameworks
Experience in newer languages such as Golang or Rust etc.
Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.
On-site gym at our office, and nationwide corporate rate gym membership
Online - benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping or holidays
Contributory company pension scheme
Private medical insurance
Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover
You're also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance and TasteCard dining discount card
Electric Car Scheme
PayPoint is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race