Lead Backend Engineer (Typescript)

London, United KingdomOn-site

Responsibilities

Manage Ambiguity: Operating effectively when things are not certain and help to bring clarity to the team. Viewing challenges as opportunities to grow and learn

experience designing, building, testing, releasing and operating scalable systems with a strong problem-solving mindset striving for excellence and taking full accountability. You have
experience within the NodeJS (TypeScript) eco-system, designing and developing APIs (bonus if you have
experience with GraphQL and NestJS). You have
experience working with and designing distributed systems.
You are competent in building and designing event driven systems (e.g. using Kafka).
You have mastered automated testing, TDD, and performance debugging tools and you are hands-on with operating the infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
You are comfortable using containerized workloads and clusters like Kubernetes.
Action-Oriented: Proactively taking on new opportunities with high energy and a sense of urgency.
You will work in the diverse Commercial Technology domain, collaborating with Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Product Managers, Data Analytics, Marketing and others of stream-aligned or platform teams that are located in Berlin, Zurich and London.

Our newly created team is focussed on providing a customer communication platform product.
You will be sitting in our office in London and collaborating closely with the cross-functional Digital teams across our key locations.
The Lead Software Engineer role will report to the relevant Senior Lead - Engineering Manager within Commercial Technology. Your Mission:
You will build and maintain the Customer platform by providing APIs, real-time events and documentation to reduce the cognitive load and enable stream-aligned teams to rapidly deliver premium, personalized experiences across all consumer touch points.
You iteratively deliver value and quality with your solutions to meet both technical and internal consumer needs.