Lead Engineer

at  CDP Global

YOU WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Knowledge, interest, and passion of the environmental and / or sustainability space
• Previous experience leading, assessing and mentoring engineers
• Hands-on skills in one or more object-oriented programming languages (Frontend: React, typescript, backend: NodeJS, Typescript)
• Experience building cloud native solutions preferably with Microsoft Azure
• Experienced working in Agile and DevOps environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to advocate for clean-code best practices and influence adoption
• Entrepreneurial and growth-oriented in their workstyle to bring new ideas to the wider team

Salary and benefits:

• Working for a leading people-centric environmental NGO with dedicated, passionate and caring coworkers;
• Competitive NGO salary and 8% Company Pension Program;
• 30 days annual holidays (with purchased leave options);
• Flexible working hours (with option to take flex-days)
• Up to 6 months remote work anywhere in the world
• Paid sabbaticals, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave
• Office offering prayer room and breastfeeding facilities

JOB PURPOSE AND BACKGROUND IN SUMMARY

In 2023 CDP underwent a complete digital transformation, seeing us transition the annual disclosure cycle from a paper-based, human-intensive and vendor-dependent stack, to a completely in-house developed, modernised and scalable product that will revolutionise the customer-experience for both external and internal users. As part of this transformation we also built completely new teams, spanning across Design, Product, and Engineering.

The newly built platform is made up of three unique domains;

• Disclosure: how CDP builds and programs questionnaires, and respondents provide their data
• Scoring: how CDP scores and assesses respondents’ data
• Data: how CDP can provide datasets and products to customers

We are hiring a Lead Engineer for one of our two Disclosure squads, who will own the development the team, deliver built in the Azure ecosystem and will be responsible for managing and growing a team of engineers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Build effective relationships with the Director of Engineering and across the Digital Directorate to enable the squad to deliver on their sprint commitments
• Support Product Owner with technical engineering inputs on backlog creation, feature/epic/story definition, prioritization, and estimation
• Take full ownership of your engineering product and squad, delivering against agreed objectives and key results (OKRs), fostering collaboration and a good engineering culture
• Define, implement and oversee end to end software development process using Agile, Scrum and DevOps methodologies
• Write high-quality code using an object orientated language (Frontend: React, Typescript, backend: NodeJS, Typescript)
• Perform regular code reviews and ensure quality assurance processes to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, and adherence to company standards / industry best practice. Provide constructive feedback to the team to continually improve software development practices
• Support architecture decisions in solution definition and design
• Make decisions regarding technologies, frameworks and design patterns to foster collaborative, efficient ways of working as well as high quality product out-put
• Work with CDO, Director of Engineering, HR team to recruit, onboard and manage talent