Tech Lead - Shape the Technology of our new Yorkshire Tech Hub!! (Halifax) at AND Digital (Halifax, UK)

Tech Lead / Principal Engineer - Halifax 

AND Digital is a new way for digital delivery.

GET THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS -

At AND Halifax, it turns out you can have your cake and eat it. As part of the Halifax team, you’ll get to combine:

A start-up’s love of product - From the tech stack to the UX, own multiple products end-to-end, building deep technical, user and domain expertise in InsurTech. Define the roadmap, shape the proposition and iterate your products over time.

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The diversity of an agency - Variety is the spice of life. Although the Club will drive real leadership in InsurTech, you’ll still experience opportunities to work outside this sector, with new clients and within different sectors over time. This means you will be able to mix it up, and keep continuously improving your skills and experience.

How we work:

We work in an Agile Scrum environment adopting Continuous Integration and Delivery techniques throughout the delivery lifecycle. We are an ambassador on engineering best practices – advising Clients and our people on coding standards, Scrum, code refactoring, code performance, continuous integration and testing.

The Tech

You will come from a Full Stack development background working in an agile environment.

Here’s a look at some of the tech and tools you could be using:

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• Java, Spring Framework, Spring boot,
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• JavaScript, Vanilla, React, Angular, Node, Vue.js
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• Agile: TDD/BDD, Pair Programming, XP
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• Continuous Integration and Deployment
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• DevOps Tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform,
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• Testing tools e.g. Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium, jMeter, jUnit
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• Proficiency with version control software, specifically GitHub
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• Platforms – CMS, eCommerce
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• Databases e.g. MySQL, Postgres, Mongo – designing schemas and optimising queries
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Your role

As a Tech Principal at AND Digital you’ll act as a hands on, senior software engineer working across a Club’s portfolio of clients, onsite and in multi-skilled agile delivery teams.

Your role will be to use your expert tech knowledge to influence the direction of projects whilst coaching and upskilling a team through implementing engineering best practices such as code reviews and pair programming.

Being hands on with development teams, you’ll understand what good code looks like and see the bigger picture, taking architecture into consideration with a DevOps mindset.

Giving and receiving regular feedback to help the Developer community within your Club develop and be more effective will be key.

This role is all about remaining hands on with code, with a clear progression path to become more senior in your field without the responsibility of managing a team.

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