Software Development Tech Lead

The RoleWe have a vacancy for anexperienced, highly motivated Software Development Tech Leadto work in an exciting and dynamic software engineering environment in Beijing. We want to see candidates who have a track record in developing high quality software, working within tight deadlines, and have a continuous improvement and customer-focused mindset. Experience in the travel or retail industry would be an advantage but not essential.As a Datalex software development team leadyou will be responsible for managing a geographically distributed team of highly skilled engineers. You will be a people manager as well as a software technical leader. You will be the software project teams key contact and will utilise well-developed communication skills toleadand facilitate effective problem solving/discussions tokey stakeholders within the company. You will be technically hands-on with estimating features, planning, coding, debugging, design, performance and testing of team deliverables. Key ResponsibilitiesAbility to estimate, document, design, implement and test large features to the highest quality and take ownership of their deliveryCapable of taking part in technical and business discussions both internally and externallyUnderstand the business drivers behind each feature.Ensure your team are delivering high quality product and platform functionality, on time and on budgetMentor, motivate and train developers within your team both local and remotely.Manage the translation of requirements into design and take ownership of documentation for your project deliveries.Challenge the status quo – contribute and lead initiatives to improve the software development process. Think BIG!Minimum Requirements5+ years of software industry experience with excellent proficiency in Java and Web Services2+ years managing a Software Engineering team ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product based companySolid experience in design/development of highly available, distributed and scalable applicationsAdditionally, experience with some of the following is advantageousGood understanding of Agile principles with experience leading a Scrum/Kanban teamWebservice technologies: REST, SOAPDevelopment Tools: GIT, Gradle, Ant, Jenkins, Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket)Communication Tools: Slack, Microsoft TeamsDatabase: Oracle or MongoDBDistributed Technologies: Spring, J2EE, MemcachedTest Automation frameworks: BDD, TestNGPractical experience with DevOps concepts: CI/CD, ChatOps, etc.Scripting levels sufficient for sysadmin, deployments, and API interaction an advantageFamiliarity with source control tools such as GITStrong organizational skills and written and oral communication in English, with other languages a benefitExperience with the design and management of applications that support:Minimizing single points of failureZero down-time upgradesAuto scaling applications that have cold start challengesDistributed applicationsImplementing and using metrics to make data driven decisionsBuilding systems that negate the need for people to log into serversBuilding apps that run-in containers.About DatalexDatalex is a market leader in digital commerce for travel retail. Datalex provides airlines with unique products to drive revenue and profit as digital retailers. Today the Datalex Digital Commerce Platform enables a travel marketplace of over one billion shoppers covering every corner of the globe, driven by some of the world’s most innovative airline retail brands. Datalex’s customers include JetBlue Airways,Aer Lingus, easyJet, LATAM Airlines, Edelweiss, Air Transat and Air China. The Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the USA and China. Datalex plc is a publicly listed company on Euronext Growth.Learn more atwww.datalex.comor follow on Linkedin and Twitter @Datalex.
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