Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Overview

Role Overview: This role will set the standards and direction of Engineers with Engineering Excellence in mind. They will demonstrate the benefits of the latest approaches to Full-Stack development and delivery through working as a team member. They should be the authority for decisions relating to standards and engineering best practices within their discipline in their team. The Principal Engineer will be passionate about software development and keen to use their technical and mentoring skills to help their development team to be successful. They should be comfortable working in agile teams, foster transparent communication, have a commitment to quality, and a focus on getting things done. This role will primarily be hands-on with some management responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical leader and developer on the Fusion team, demonstrating strong technical competencies and acting as a dependable and high value contributor within the team such that other team members know what they should aspire to
• Be an expert in modern Full-Stack Engineering using React/Typescript/JavaScript and OO design principals
• Provide technical oversight of the analysis and design for assigned projects
• Design, develop, test and oversee production software solutions, including the development of highly complex systems, and modifications to existing systems
• Be able to communicate the architecture and principles behind a system to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling (JIRA) to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation
• Ensure the team engages in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs
• Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging previous experience
• Be custodians for target state architecture and best practice within your respective development team and across the Fusion estate
• Identify opportunities to evolve systems towards target state architecture and direct refactoring and prioritisation to positively influence deliveries

Communication and Leadership

• Work alongside Team Leaders, to provide technical leadership and direction for the development team
• Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice
• Lead the software team to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, through both gated checks like code reviews and more supportive approaches such as mentoring or identifying stretch opportunities for team members

Change, Risk and Issue Management

• Guide and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate
• Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions
• Share complex technical designs or issues with non-technical stakeholders and influence their decision making where necessary
• Identify tools and methodologies to improve the effectiveness of the development process
• Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements
• Manage risks and issues effectively with timely escalation to the project stakeholders

Experience/Competencies

Essential:

• Demonstrable industry experience as a Full Stack or Front/Backend Engineer in Typescript in a professional environment.
• Front-end skills
• Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and Typescript
• Proficient in React, Redux, ReactQuery
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks - React
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL and Websockets
• Experience with CSS pre-processors e.g. Tailwind
• Back-end skills
• Proficiency in backend programming languages (Typescript and/or other OOP language such as c#/Java)
• Strong database knowledge (SQL and NoSQL)
• Proficiency with RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs and Websockets
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git)
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with AWS (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync)
• Worked within an Agile Cross-functional delivery team.
• Developing well tested software into low latency event driven production environments.
• Full software development lifecycle in a technical role.
• Pub/Sub patterns with Messaging technologies (such as SOLACE/AMQP)
• Worked within a technical platform team, delivering reusable services across multiple agile projects.
• Microservice Architecture.
• Containerization.
• Maintaining code quality with Unit, Integration and e2e testing.
• AWS cloud ecosystem and the AWS CLI (or industry equivalent).
• Linux shell or Windows PowerShell.
• CI and CD flows within an enterprise environment. Continuous Delivery
• Agile tooling to support team delivery, such as JIRA and other project management systems.
• Open to innovative ideas/ experiences and ability to create new ideas, approaches or insights.
• Seeks opportunities for improvements.
• Demonstrates high levels of energy in seeking out and achieving new goals.
• Can work with BA’s/PO’s to demystify ambiguity, handle challenge, and is comfortable to challenge team mates constructively.
• Adapts communication style to suit audience.
• Works ethically and shows respect for both professional and company values.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach.
• Strong analytical ability and innovative problem solving skills.
• Software Design Patterns.
• Source control (Git).

Desired:

• OOP \ SOLID Principles.
• Demonstrable experience of C# (.Net 8+) in a professional environment.
• Contribution to open-source projects.
• Experience of regulatory driven projects.
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products.