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Lead Engineer
Liverpool
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Hybrid
Description
Hybrid requirements: 1 day per week in the office.
**What does a Lead Engineer (Fulfilment) do?
This role is a Love2shop role which is part of the PayPoint group. Based in Liverpool once a week**
As the Lead Engineer you will be at the heart of building world-class products for Love2shop. Focus will be on Technical execution and decision making within the product team. You will be responsible for designing, contributing and helping shape the technical direction of the fulfilment team, setting the software engineering direction for both internal and external delivery. You will be responsible for leading the team in the design, development, successful delivery and ongoing maintenance/support of integrations and applications. You will work in a fast-paced, cloud-first, product driven agile team helping to drive the delivery and technical competency of the team and the product forwards.
Key responsibilities
• You will work with alongside the Product Owner in articulating and converting the Fulfilment products strategic transition plan into technical delivery outputs/outcomes
• Designing, developing and maintaining scalable technical solutions that support the ongoing growth of the business through fulfilment product services.
• Contribute to architectural decisions across multiple initiatives, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Demonstrating experience of designing features with resilience, security and service management in mind.
• Assisting with translating technical solutions into language that non-technical staff will understand.
• Contribute to the process of evaluating new technologies & approaches, particularly where they relate to better software engineering.
• Ensuring that the business has systems that are performant & reliable and meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring that the application lifecycle, quality assurance, database engineering and build and deployment tasks are in place and understood by the team.
• Helping to shape the team’s ways of working with the Project management team and Product Owner.
• Work with the product team to ensure that all software deliveries from 3rd parties contain high quality technical solutions and meet Love2shop’s expectation for software assets.
• Ensure the fulfilment teams documented engineering standards and practices comply with PCI–DSS and other relevant standards.
Qualifications and experience
• Experience of leading Design and Development work personally within a financial services organisation.
• A wider understanding of emerging technologies & their place in the world with the ability to do R&D to gain a better understanding of them.
• Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle as well as good problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Thorough understanding of delivery disciplines, processes and techniques.
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Good knowledge of other stacks & languages, the pros and cons of them and what situations they are best applicable to.
• Experience of creating a culture of accountability but where people are not afraid to share opportunities for improvements and to take accountability for mistakes.
• Experience designing/building and maintaing APIs (JSON REST, SOAP).
• Experience of leading an Engineering team within an internal IT Department.
• Experince of performing in a lead development role for 3+ years (ideally in techniologies; object oriented langauges (using an MVC framework), SQL databases).
• Strong experience of TDD.
Personal skills
• A highly motivated, focussed, flexible and tenacious individual with excellent analysis, organisation and planning skills.
• Detail conscious and systematic in approach to work.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to listen effectively and interact at all levels within the organisation.
• A team player, but capable of working on own initiative.
An engaging individual that swiftly generates confidence in key relationships.
Our benefits if you decide to join us:
• 25 days’ holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Company sick pay from day 1
• Company pension scheme
• UK health care cover
• Staff Everyday Benefits card offering discounts with multiple retailers (10%)
• Corporate travel scheme with Merseyrail, Northern rail, Arriva & Transport for Wales
• Fabulous kitchen space which offers free tea and coffee
• Faith room open to all denominations along with dedicated kitchen space for Halal and Kosher food preparation
• Family friendly leave
• Community volunteering policy which allows you 2 days per year to support the community with charitable events
As a disability-confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.
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Culture overview
It's an exciting time to join PayPoint as we continue to grow rapidly, using our retail products and services expertise to develop innovative payment solutions for diverse markets. At PayPoint, we pride ourselves on our workplace culture and the positive working environment we create. We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We are always looking for talented, smart and creative people to join our business. Our values Our Vision is to achieve first-time delivery of outstanding technology and services to our customers, create a dynamic place to work for our people and deliver positive outcomes for all our stakeholders. We do this by living our six values, which together form the DNA of our culture. They guide our behaviour and interactions with all of our customers. Via our Monthly Values Award programme, we recognise individuals who demonstrate our company values in their day to day role. Each month we focus on one of our six values and reward an employee with £200 worth of Love2shop vouchers and the use of a premium car parking space for one month. Ambitious: Striving to achieve more Always seeking to improve, in terms of personal development as well as what you do for the business Creating an infectious energy and buzz Being open to trying new things and learning from the experience Collaborative: Involving the right colleagues from across the business at an early stage to achieve the best outcome Pulling together to get things done Thinking beyond your own team/role to do the right thing for the business Good communication – being transparent, keeping others informed and asking for and giving feedback Accountable: Taking responsibility for outcomes Doing what you say you are going to do Flagging issues/problems early Putting things right when they do go wrong Results-focused: Focusing on activities that will have the biggest positive impact Understanding what it takes and galvanizing people across the business to ensure plans are delivered successfully Always acting ethically and with integrity Celebrating the success of all involved Can do: Being open, positive and helpful Finding ways to overcome challenges Going the extra mile to get things done Being able to adapt quickly to different situations Good colleague: Taking the time to get to know colleagues and have fun Thinking of others/the team Supporting colleagues through difficult times Providing good quality work to others
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