Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Are you an experienced software engineer ready to take technical leadership and elevate a development team to the next level? And do you get energy from designing scalable architectures and streamlining development processes in a complex, international tech environment?

My client is a fast-growing, international scale-up that provides secure network connections as a service (Network-as-a-Service) worldwide. They operate at the intersection of network technology and software development. The heart of their operation is an advanced customer portal (built in Next.js) that allows customers to manage their global network. You will join a compact but growing development team where you report directly to the management. The tech stack is modern and diverse, with a core of Next.js, Postgres, and Python, fully hosted on Azure. They are looking for a \\"working foreman\\" who not only defines the roadmap and makes architectural decisions but also gets hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Lead a development team and contribute to hands-on coding (approximately 50/50 in the long term).
• Define the technical roadmap and make architectural decisions.
• collaborate in designing scalable architectures and improving development processes in a complex, international environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience with designing and building scalable web applications in production
• Experience with modern frameworks (e.g. Node/Angular/Vue)
• Experience with Next.js is a big plus
• Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure (experience with AWS/GCP is a good foundation)
• Knowledge of containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with data migrations (specifically from NoSQL to SQL)
• Basic proficiency in Python for scripting
• You have a strong vision on architecture and can translate this into a concrete roadmap and technical solutions

Salary and Benefits

• Salary up to 110k gross annually
• 25 holidays
• Pension
• Travel allowance

How to apply

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