Tech Lead/ Lead Developer

at  Well Pharmacy

Overview of the role
Our Digital Team is growing and a new opportunity has been created to join our team as the Lead Developer.
As the Lead Developer you’ll be accountable for all aspects of product engineering in the digital team. You’ll ensure efficient code development, adherence to coding standards, and lead on architecture and tech stack decisions, ensuring our products are scalable, maintainable.
As a senior member of the product team, they will play a key role in aligning development work to our strategic objectives. They will be the technical voice in the room as we develop product strategy, fostering a collaborative culture and driving technical innovation.
Want to find out more about what the Digital Team do and who they are? Watch this to find out an overview and/or visit https://well.co.uk/jobs/meet-our-digital-team-and-our-digital-pharmacy-team/:
Main Responsibilities

THE KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NEED:

• Full-stack developer with extensive hands-on coding experience and a proven track record as a technical team leader.
• Experience working with a diverse set of languages and platforms, ideally including Golang, Python, JavaScript, React, and Node.js. Adaptable and quick to learn new languages, frameworks, and platforms.
• Extensive AWS experience, encompassing core services, security and compliance, database design and management (RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora), architecture, monitoring, and optimization.
• Experience in working within and shaping DevOps models.
• Experience or strong interest in working within a Product team, shaping product strategy, and aligning your team’s outputs with long-term business objectives.
• Ability to lead and mentor effectively within an agile, collaborative environment.
• Outstanding communication skills – capable of translating business requirements into actionable technical requirements and clearly articulating options, challenges, risks, and implications of development approaches to non-technical stakeholders.Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we’ll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
  Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
  About The Company
  For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
  Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
  The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
  We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
  We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

• Collaborate closely with colleagues, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to understand needs, goals, and constraints, and effectively translate them into actionable technical requirements for the development team.
• Plan and document technical specifications for features or system design, ensuring a clear roadmap for development and implementation to ensure alignment of the technical roadmap with business objectives and timelines.
• Design, build, and configure scalable and maintainable applications to meet business process and application requirements, leveraging technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
• Direct and oversee the development team in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including design, development, coding, testing, and debugging, to deliver high-quality, robust solutions.
• Write testable, scalable, and efficient code, leading by example, and establishing and maintaining coding standards and best practices for the team.
• Facilitate peer code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and the highest possible quality of development output.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, helping them understand their work in the context of our products, customers, and business, fostering their professional growth, and encouraging the adoption of industry best practices and innovative solutions.
• Ensure that software quality standards are met by developing, implementing, and enforcing code standards, conducting rigorous testing, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through feedback loops and process enhancements.
• Proactively identify technical debt and advocate for necessary refactoring or re-engineering efforts to maintain codebase health and scalability
• Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and evaluate their potential impact on the team’s projects and processes
• Facilitate effective communication within the team and across departments to ensure alignment and collaboration
• Identify the most efficient and resilient technical solutions to meet complex requirements within an already complex tech stack
• Lead by example to ensure your team is engaged with our products and customers and that product strategy and customer experiences are considered in everything they deliver
• Innovative, able to harness the opportunities presented by new and emerging technologies
• Take a pragmatic approach – know when and how to deliver a true MVP and when to advocate for comprehensive and future-proofed solution
  The Ideal Candidate