Lead Software Engineer
Palladium - Lead Technology Engineer
Location: London-based office, with support for remote and flexible workingReporting to: Technology Director
Salary: GBP 80,000 - GBP 90,000 (dependent on experience and level of seniority)
Experience: 8 to 10 years
Overview
At Palladium, we specialise in driving digital business transformation and delivering innovative solutions that create value and accelerate growth across a diverse range of industries and asset classes.
We are seeking an experienced Lead Technology Engineer to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys the challenge of creating innovative software solutions for businesses at all stages, from start-ups to large enterprises.
At Palladium, we place customer experience at the heart of everything we do. The ideal candidate will have a strong affinity for product and service design, coupled with a deep understanding of how technology can drive positive behavioural change and deliver exceptional user experiences.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, and delivery of innovative software solutions tailored to client needs.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product designers, business analysts, and stakeholders, to create user-centric solutions.
Drive technical excellence by implementing best practices in software architecture, development, and deployment.
Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, identifying opportunities to enhance our offerings and deliver competitive advantage.
Ensure all solutions are scalable, secure, and optimised for performance.
Requirements
As Software Development Lead at Palladium you will be responsible for:
- Lead a team of local and off-shore developers, delivering a variety of projects for external clients and our own internal SaaS platform.
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable applications using a variety of technologies including Cloud Native, Node.js React, GraphQL, and Ruby.
- Role model code quality, testing, and automation.
- Improve our technical delivery process, enabling projects to be delivered at a higher standard with less effort.
- Guide the team to decisions on tooling and fundamental architectural choices of the application.
- Mentor junior developers and help grow their capability and capacity.
- Grow the development team and take the lead on talent identification and selection.
- Communicate with external clients and customers, gathering feedback and coordinating delivery plans.
- Autonomous, proactive technical leader.
- Strong experience of designing and building web applications in cloud.
- Experience with Node.js, Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL.
- Full stack development (UI, API, Service, Storage).
- Strong knowledge of SDLC, Git based versioning systems and CI/CD, automated functional and integration tests.
- Good understanding of NoSQL and relational databases.
- Good understanding of Agile methodologies including Scrum.
- Experience: 8-10 years.
- A diverse team of supportive and passionate people with experience, set in a smaller bespoke consultancy atmosphere
- Flat org structure and skills/capabilities based project resourcing
- Sociable, inclusive, friendly, supportive team culture
- Annual performance based bonus
- Company pension scheme
- Bike to Work scheme
Equal Opportunities
Palladium is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. The success of Palladium depends upon our ability to recognise and leverage the capabilities of each of our employees.
With this in mind, Palladium is committed to providing equality and fairness for all recruitment applicants and employees and not discriminating against anyone because of their gender (including sex, marital status and gender reassignment), race (including ethnic origin, colour, nationality and national origin), disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or age.In addition, Palladium will not discriminate against anyone who is associated with another individual who is protected under equality legislation. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination
All employees are treated fairly and with respect. Selection for employment, promotion, training or any other benefits is done on the basis of aptitude and ability. Palladium is also committed to preventing discrimination of any type against its employees by third parties such as suppliers, clients and the general public.The responsibility for upholding this commitment is shared by, and is intended to benefit, every employee.