Tech Lead

6 months ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Dunelm Full time

**Overview**:
This role is based out of our London or Leicester offices. We operate a hybrid working policy.

**About us**

Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.

At Dunelm, that’s what we do.

We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we've created makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.

**About Software Engineering**

Our Engineering Department plays a crucial role in driving our company's growth, and we are committed to providing our team with the latest tools, technologies, and techniques to help them excel and take us to new heights. With our continuous growth, we are seeking talented and ambitious individuals to join our dynamic team and contribute their unique ideas and perspectives. We are an ever-expanding team where every voice counts

Join our Tech Team and you’ll not only be part of stimulating projects that are making an impact across our business, you’ll be somewhere you can build a long-term career that always promises to challenge and excite.

Find your happy place.

**What you'll be doing**:
**The Role**

The Technical Lead will be up-to-date with the latest tech trends, continuously learning and experimenting with innovative technologies to drive the team's success. A Lean and Agile expert, this role will coach and mentor colleagues, fostering a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities
- Lead, motivate, and inspire a team to generate value for Dunelm.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
- Work closely with the Principal Engineers to contribute to the overall Engineering Chapter.
- Actively participate in hands-on design and development within a self-organizing, cross-functional team utilizing best practices and Pair Programming techniques.
- Embrace an agile approach, fail quickly, and iterate rapidly to keep pace with the dynamic and exciting retail sector.
- Share responsibility for sprint planning, backlog refinement, and task estimation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements and develop solutions that meet those needs.
- Create clean, efficient, and scalable code using industry best practices and design patterns.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to all contributors to improve code quality and maintainability.
- Take responsibility for ensuring that code is implemented to a high quality standard, including supportability, maintainability, scalability, and security.
- Promote and embody the DevOps culture, driving best practices in our CI/CD pipelines.
- Influence the technical direction of the team and the wider business, including technology stack and design decisions.
- Facilitate effective problem-solving and drive solutions to completion.
- Keep up to date with industry trends and technologies to ensure that the software we build remains current and competitive.

**What we'll look for in you**:
**Essential skills**
- Demonstrated expertise in designing scalable, secure, and high-performing architecture.
- Proven track record in designing and implementing AWS Serverless services.
- Experience leading agile software development teams.
- Strong mentoring and coaching skills to help develop team members' capabilities.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills to address complex challenges.
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Proficient in some or all of our key technologies, such as Node.js, React, Typescript, AWS Lambda, JavaScript, GraphQL, and Jest.
- Skilled in functional development methodologies.
- Proficient in microservices and RESTful architectures.
- Experienced in development within Linux or OSX environments.
- Knowledgeable in CI/CD practices and processes to promote efficient delivery of high-quality products.
- Proficient in writing comprehensive automated functional tests to ensure code quality.
- A passion for technology and a desire to explore the latest innovative tech while continuously learning and growing.
- Comfortable working in agile environments, embracing a culture of failing fast and pivoting as necessary to deliver successful outcomes.
Experience of integrating headless SaaS packages with in-house built software

**Desirable skills**
- Experience handling sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) data.
- Unit Testing frameworks both server-side and client-side
- Content Delivery Networks (Caching and optimisation)
- Isomorphic Architecture
- Event Driven Architecture
- Device agnostic principles (responsive design)
- OO and Functional design best practices
- Design patterns
- Experience of working within a multichannel retailer and/or manufacturer.

**Behaviours**

**Customer First**: You should prioritize the customer experience and continuously seek ways to i

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