notonthehighstreet

This role is Fully Remote Until September We are notonthehighstreet. We're home to 5,000 phenomenal small creative businesses that we are proud to call our Partners. But, now more than ever, this community needs our support. So we're doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off. On top of our brilliant Partners, products and customers (not to mention our incredible team who have been busy beavering away from home since March), the last 12 months has seen great progress with our tech platform and customer experience. We are now looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that's where you come in. What we needWe've embarked on an ambitious new phase of development to advance our technology including platform re-architecture to modern microservices and rewriting the front end. This will include moving all the services to cutting-edge tech and introducing new big data & machine learning platforms. It's an exciting time and we need to strengthen and grow our teams!As Tech Lead you will take on technical leadership of one or more engineering teams ensuring we design and build great services and front end as well as take active part in coaching and developing our engineers.Some of the things you'll be doing Oversee one or more cross-functional engineering teams to deliver great software for our customers and partners Provide technical leadership and ultimately act as the technical authority for key decisions Make sure that the tech is operationally ready and provide active support for high priority and complex production issues Monitor and manage technical debt, articulating necessary remedial work in a way that it can be prioritised against business facing features Help to shape the overall architecture and Tech strategy and make sure the teams understand it and what they develops fits right in Help to build and make sure the team has and follows good QA practices and takes full accountability for their testing including functional, performance, load and security testing (of course all automated) Help to build and implement secure by design principles as well as good security coding practices Work closely with our Product Management Team to deconstruct problem statements into technical solutions the team can build Help to drive the team to do the best possible job and strive for continuous improvement in productivity. Working with others keep the team inspired and motivated with a focus on delivering maximum value through the best available tech Provide technical and engineering coaching to the engineers in the team, participate in their career development as well as actively participate in and help to drive engineering recruitment across Hold themselves and others accountable for upholding and NOTHS values Some Key Skills + Experience You'll Need - Essential skills An eagerness to work alongside product teams to find a healthy balance between tech and feature driven priorities A deep understanding of Java Experience deploying application stacks to AWS An understanding of distributed asynchronous architectures A solid understanding of CI/CD ...it also would be good if you have... Worked on a team that was fully invested into cloud native applications Used Jenkins Extra brownie points You have previous experience leading a technical team You are keen to work at a more strategic planning level to prioritise important technical work against product work You are interested in being a hands-on technical contributor, with the understanding the the most important features will probably be delivered by other engineers -Our perksIt's important to us that our people are well looked after, which is why we offer everyone BUPA healthcare, life insurance and a pension plan. Because having a break is important for your physical and mental wellbeing, our holiday allowance is 25 days (plus bank holidays) AND your entitlement increases an extra day for every 2 years you spend with us.The team spirit at NOTHS House is legendary, and while we all miss the in-office massages, hair cuts and the abundance of free fruit, we've taken to our virtual world with gusto and bring the team together regularly for socials and of course the odd Zoom quiz!We endeavour to support our people to make sure work….well, works for them. And the pretty big issue of the recent global pandemic has propelled us into working more flexibly than ever before. With the office closed until further notice (at least until government social distancing advice has changed), we're using the lessons learnt over this period to evolve our approach to flexible working whilst ensuring we all still get together as one #teamnoths.1. Telephone Interview with Engineer2. Tech Task3. Face-to-Face (Hands on Technical and meet Heads of Tech and Digital Product)Java, Microservices, AWS, CI/CDJava, AWS, CI/CD, Jenkins

This role will be Fully Remote Until September We are notonthehighstreet. We're home to 5,000 phenomenal small creative businesses that we are proud to call our Partners. But, now more than ever, this community needs our support. So we're doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off. On top of our brilliant Partners, products and customers (not to mention our incredible team who have been busy beavering away from home since March), the last 12 months has seen great progress with our tech platform and customer experience. We are now looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that's where you come in. What we needWe've embarked on an ambitious new phase of development to advance our technology including platform re-architecture to modern microservices and rewriting the front end. This will include moving all the services to cutting-edge tech and introducing new big data&machine learning platforms. It's an exciting time and we need to strengthen and grow our teams!As Senior Engineer you will join one of our engineering teams building a new set of micro services and front end for Not on The High Street customers, partners and internal users.Some of the things you'll be doing Writing, testing and maintaining quality code Working with a small, empowered cross-functional team to deliver business value Making a significant contribution to defining, maintaining and improving our architecture and best practices Designing and building systems which are performant and secure Providing support for other team members through code review, pairing and mentoring Be part of our success and make a difference Some key skills + experience you'll need You will have fresh hands-on experience as a Senior or Mid level or junior engineer, ideally in an Agile eCommerce/Digital environment Javascript, front end frameworks, preferably React including server rendered React Would be great if you had experience with Node.js and GraphQL Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS) Experience with event driven architectures Keen software engineering approach Desire to work closely with the business, learn new things and teach others Ability to take ownership of a project or issue, analyse it and solve problems not faced before TDD and functional programming Experience with agile development methodologies Champion of modern development practices and tools, e.g. Continuous Delivery with Jenkins, Source Control with Git, AWS Infrastructure etc Previous e-commerce experience would also be beneficial Our current stack includes Ruby, Java, React, Node.js , ElasticSearch, Jenkins, Docker, and AWS and so experience with any (or many!) of those would be highly advantageous -Our perksIt's important to us that our people are well looked after, which is why we offer everyone BUPA healthcare, life insurance and a pension plan. Because having a break is important for your physical and mental wellbeing, our holiday allowance is 25 days (plus bank holidays) AND your entitlement increases an extra day for every 2 years you spend with us.The team spirit at NOTHS House is legendary, and while we all miss the in-office massages, hair cuts and the abundance of free fruit, we've taken to our virtual world with gusto and bring the team together regularly for socials and of course the odd Zoom quiz!We endeavour to support our people to make sure work….well, works for them. And the pretty big issue of the recent global pandemic has propelled us into working more flexibly than ever before. With the office closed until further notice (at least until government social distancing advice has changed), we're using the lessons learnt over this period to evolve our approach to flexible working whilst ensuring we all still get together as one #teamnoths.1. Telephone Interview with Engineer2. Tech Task3. Face-to-Face (Hands on Technical)JavaScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, AWSJavaScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, AWS, Jenkins, Git