We’re building a brand-new Loyalty team and are looking for a Lead Engineer to lead the team to success. You’ll lead a team of engineers to deliver a small suite of backend services supporting features like Loyalty Points , & Customer Offers.
Your first task will be to set the team up for success —creating the right team environment, encouraging positive team behaviours and effectively implement NewDays Agile ways of working.

This is a hands-on lead engineer role . You’ll be actively involved in design, architecture decisions and delivery; while also ensuring that your team continuously improves the product from both a technical and customer perspective . As a Lead Engineer, you’ll take ownership of:

• Architecture and design of resilient, scalable, always-on microservices

• Driving high standards in code quality and automated testingDelivering high-quality software at a sustainable pace

• We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced engineering environment, communicates effectively, and leads by example.

YOU’LL DELIVER

• Leadership of an engineering team inclusive of people management, with the goal of a high-performance, self-sufficient, autonomous team
• Learning, growth, and mentorship of the engineering team to accelerate their career-growth and encourage them to progress
• Architecture, design, building, and delivery of highly-available, always-on, zero downtime API products and solutions
• Facilitation and collaboration with engineers, product owners, and other colleagues to seek exciting and results-oriented problems for delivering value
• Ownership of the production operation and monitoring of products inline with SLAs
• Clear, maintainable code that will scale
• Challenge team processes, looking for ways to improve them

WE NEED KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE + EXPERTISE IN:

• Leading and developing engineering teams
• Designing and implementing high-quality cloud software solutions, i.e. Azure, AWS, GCP
• Utilising a variety of cloud architectures
• Consistency, reliability, scalability of systems without downtime
• T-shaped engineer, but major in C#
• Knowing how to write readable, idiomatic, and maintainable C#
• Leading and implementing sophisticated API products
• Agile methodologies

AND WOULD LOVE YOU TO KNOW OR LEARN:

• Designing and building highly-scalable API products that meet the high demands of millions of users
• System design, design patterns, API design and build of large scale distributed systems in the cloud, from IaaS, Containers to PaaS. We use Azure, we love serverless and containers!
• How to launch API’s to both internal and external consumers
• FinTech
• Consumer lending or credit card issuing
• Experience building Payments related software

• Architecture and design of resilient, scalable, always-on microservices
• Driving high standards in code quality and automated testingDelivering high-quality software at a sustainable pac