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About the Role
Red Badger is seeking a Tech Lead to join their digital product delivery team. In this role, you will collaborate with a Delivery Lead to guide a team in delivering high-quality software for clients, tackling complex business challenges with varying technologies. You should be adept at problem-solving, customer-focused, comfortable consulting with technical stakeholders, and an advocate for agile methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers within a cross-functional delivery team.
- Utilize modern development practices to deliver high-quality software.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and designs for projects.
- Adapt to new languages and frameworks as needed.
- Begin or continue a career path in line management.
- Coach and support peers.
- Provide post-launch support for digital products based on client requirements.
- Facilitate and contribute to agile ceremonies, enhancing the agile process.
- Collaborate with delivery managers and product owners to lead teams in delivering quality digital products.
- Lead and support peers in technical discussions.
- Promote lean software development principles.
- Engage in pair programming with team members, including designers.
- Manage client relationships with technical stakeholders.
- Proactively engage with clients to advance projects, providing updates and identifying technical blockers.
- Incorporate modern software practices into client teams.
- Spend approximately half of your time coding, pairing, and reviewing code.
- Spend the other half supporting other functions and clients with technical strategy decisions.
- Provide support and line management to engineers on the team.
Requirements
- Experience with web frontend and backend technologies (e.g., Typescript, React, Node.JS, Rust, Go).
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g., ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL).
- Knowledge of system architecture approaches (e.g., microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS).
- Experience with virtualization and orchestration tools (e.g., VMs, Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions).
- Proficiency in test automation using Test Driven Development practices, including unit, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Understanding of design and technical trade-offs, optimizing for lean product development and end-user value.
- Experience designing an agile release engineering strategy for incremental and continuous value delivery.
- Experience supporting highly available live production systems, including responding to alerts, diagnosing issues with observability tools, and resolving incidents.
- Experience with lean and agile practices (e.g., Kanban, Scrum).
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams.
- Experience coaching and line managing software engineers.
- Ability to design, build, debug, and contribute to evolving cloud-based architectures using Everything-as-Code principles.
- Experience negotiating SLAs and SLOs with business and support teams.
- Experience shaping and resourcing technical teams.
- Ability to translate commercial objectives into technical strategy.
- Proven track record of tech leadership on complex engineering projects, setting technical vision, and managing stakeholders.
- Experience coaching and line managing software engineers new to management.
- Experience representing the company publicly through media, meetups, and conferences.
Skills
- Typescript
- React
- Node.JS
- Rust
- Go
- ElasticSearch
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- Microservices
- Event Sourcing
- Serverless
- CQRS
- VMs
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Github Actions
- Test Driven Development
- Unit Testing
- API Testing
- End-to-End Testing
- Lean Product Development
- Agile Release Engineering
- Observability Tooling
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Cloud-based Architectures
- Everything-as-Code
- Agile Methodologies
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
- Tech Lead
- Line Management
Benefits
- Annual £2,000 training budget
- Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 5% of salary
- Group Life Insurance
- Income Replacement Benefit
- Critical Illness Cover
- Private Medical Insurance
- Choice of hardware and mobile phone
- £1,000 home-office set up budget
- Contribution to home broadband
- Matched (pre-tax) charity GAYE donations
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced parental leave
- Flexible working hours (core hours 10am-3pm)
About the Company
- Red Badger combines strategic services, user experience, and technical delivery using Lean and Agile processes.
- Founded in 2010, the company helps large organizations improve speed to market and deliver user value.
- They work with clients to understand problems, validate ideas, and deliver process efficiencies, strategic enhancements, and new/improved digital products and services.
- The team consists of 120+ employees with over 10 years of company history.
- Red Badger is a diverse group with 22 nationalities and 17 languages spoken.
- The company is founder-owned, consistently profitable, and has experienced responsible growth.
- They are entering a new phase of growth and development.
Equal Opportunity
- Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Hiring, employment, training, promotion, and compensation are conducted without regard to gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed, or color.
- The company believes that individual differences contribute to their success.