The Role:

The e.fundamentals Digital Shelf Analytics platform gathers almost 4 million web pages per day from around 500 retailers worldwide. Gathering data on such a massive scale demands specialised tools for scheduling and reviewing thousands of individual tasks.

The Scheduling team is responsible for devising, building and supporting these tools. The team creates applications and services that enable our internal users to manage tasks safely and efficiently at scale. We’re looking for an experienced senior Software Engineer to lead the team as we develop a brand new iteration of our scheduling system to meet the demands of our rapidly growing customer-base.

What You'll Do:

Lead a team of talented engineers, empowering them to deliver a flexible and highly-scalable scheduling system Take responsibility for the health and success of the team; maintain and foster a positive and collaborative culture Balance hands-on development alongside team leadership responsibilities Participate in critical technical and strategic discussions with stakeholders across the product engineering organisation. Help define and maintain a vision and roadmap for the team Be responsible for all aspects of the team’s delivery and development cycle; leading and championing agile processes, and driving continuous improvement Collaborate with senior engineers to define a target architecture for the system and identify a route towards its delivery Champion the work of the team; ensure its successes are celebrated Be an advocate for the individuals within the team. Guide them in their personal development, and help them to grow and maximise their opportunities within CommerceIQ Participate in engineering and architecture forums to help build a culture of excellence within the engineering organisation

 

What You'll Bring:

Extensive experience of using JavaScript, React and Node to build rich applications and supporting back-end APIs A track record of building full-stack products at scale A background leading other engineers Significant experience working with Linux/Unix A strong understanding of web technologies: HTML, DOM, HTTP, and CSS A strong understanding of modern coding practices and standards Great interpersonal and communications skills A passion for delivering quality software

 

Nice to Haves: 

Experience with TypeScript Experience of building services in the cloud, especially with Google Cloud Platform Experience of containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes Experience of building infrastructure as code, especially with Terraform Knowledge of web-scraping and its challenges Data analysis and SQL skills