Lead Software Engineer

A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US

Foods Connected is a cloud based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business. At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy working together and solving problems for our customers. Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing our project statuses or enjoying a game of ping-pong or pool in the office, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We're always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our team. So if you're driven, with a passion for developing simple software solutions, creating great user experiences, designing scalable solutions for real business challenges and ensuring customer happiness then we're looking for you

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IS THIS SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YO**

U?A successful candidate will be a strong software developer, proven leader, and good networker according to the role's responsibilities with an interest in Supply Chain Management Software for Food Safety, Compliance, Procurement and CSR. You'll be capable of becoming productive lead Engineer on an existing project within 8 weeks and of creating a brand new project from scratch within 3 months without technical assistanc

e.It's essential to the individual in this role, to take on some management responsibilities (e.g. line management, providing performance feedback, and approving leave

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What you will be do**

ingThe successful candidate will take on the followi
ng responsibiliti

1. es.Develop high-quality softw
2. areSet an example and coach others in writing code with robust tests and CI ensuring our solutions remain intuitive to new starters and consistent across produc
3. ts.Set an example and coach others in reviewing code to ensure changes meet requirements, handle edge cases (particularly in integrations across products), and improve best practic
4. es.Improving the process for requesting and monitoring successful deployments, coaching others to do the proce
5. ss.Participate in long-term product & technical decisions across products, seeking out advice from peers and non-technical departments (e.g. Product, UX, et
6. c).Facilitate, lead, and recommend initiatives and communities that help the team become better and move with new tren
7. ds.Collaborate with others (particularly across other departmen
8. ts)Collaborate pro-actively with customers and colleagues across departments to identify and resolve needs of teams and customers in a timely manner (including via RFPs and SOW
9. s).Maintain strong connections communicating politely with candour, humility, and hones
10. ty.Constructively give, openly receive, and swiftly act on feedba
11. ck.Live the company values: Simplicity, Service, Innovati
12. on.Coach others to lead projects (epics, support cases, and features), unblock themselves and deliver pull requests to the master/main branch every iterati
13. on.Help evolve and sustain the busin
14. essWorking with the Product Owner and Stakeholders to define and execute objectives & key results without requiring much input from stakeholde
15. rs.Working with the Product Owner to autonomously define and prioritise the team's vision & roadmap to meet OKRs and KPIs identifying dependencies without requiring much input from stakeholde
16. rs.Provide documentation and coaching to help others resolve support cases and incidents by interpreting information from various sources (other products, databases, logs, etc) to verify an issue and its root cau
17. se.Resolve and co-ordinate the resolution of support cases and incidents that span multiple products autonomously with consistent updates to the custom
18. er.Identify new and existing product & technical problems, opportunities, and synergies worth investme

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What we are looking**

forThe successful candidate will demonstrate the follow
ing essential attribu

• tes.Databa
  ses: Strong experience with MS
• SQL.Programm
  ing: Strong experience architecting software and setting tech direction at sc
• ale.Back
  end: Strong experience with .NET framework, OAuth/SAML, and queuing servi
• ces.Front
  end: Strong experience with React, cross-platform development, and accessibil
• ity.Test
  ing: Strong experience with testing, static typing, linting, and compilation tool
• ing.Version
  ing: Strong experience with version control and CI/CD (e.g. Git & Github Actio
• ns).Results-Focu
  sed: Strong experience with planning and demonstrating results with an agile mind
• set.Leaders
  hip: Experience of leading productive technical meetings internally and with custom
• ers.Service-Orien
  ted: Experience anticipating, recognising and meeting needs of teams and custom
• ers.Communicat
  ion: Ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical colleag
• ues.Problem-Solv
  ing: Determination to resolve problems (e.g. performance) with critical thinking ski

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It would be advantageous (but not essential) to have the follo
wing desirable attrib

• utes.Experience coaching experienced members through difficult technical challe
• nges.Led a team and/or demonstrated an ability to be a productive Software Engineer in at least three t
• eams.Experience using .NET/TypeScript and C
• I/CD.Confidence in talking directly to customers face-to-
• face.Achievement of a third level qualification in Computer Science or similar f
• ield.10+ years professional experience in Software Enginee

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• efits:Competitive Base
• SalaryEmployee Performance Related
• BonusClear Career Progr
• essionFlexible Working
• HoursMatched Employee P
• ensionGenerous Holiday P
• ackageSecure Company Ha

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