Lead Back-End Software Engineer (LDN OFFICE BASE) £85000 - £110000

Lead Back-End Software Engineer (LDN OFFICE BASE) £85000 - £110000 Department: Engineering Employment Type: Permanent Location: London, UK Compensation: £85,000 - £110,000 / year Description Based in our London Bond Street Office and reporting directly to the Director of Engineering and Product you will have oversight and responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the backend systems and APIs required to support our mobile and web applications. You will also work closely with the CogX product team to identify, scope and implement the necessary features on our product roadmap. At CogX we operate a hybrid working philosophy in the belief that connecting as colleagues accelerates thought, actions and delivery. With offices in Vauxhall, London you will be comfortable driving collaboration days in office as required to support high level projects. Key Responsibilities Providing technical leadership for the backend engineering team Mentoring other members of the team Setting standards for code quality and establishing best practices Writing and maintaining backend code that drives our mobile and web clients Defining architecture and choosing tools Working closely with the Product, Design and Data Science teams Working closely with the frontend team to integrate our APIs into our client apps Working as an effective member within our agile/scrum based environment Participating in code reviews Writing automated tests Creating and enhancing the test infrastructure for our application Integrating with third party analytics tools and other third party APIs Integrating with CI/CD tools such as Codeship, Github and others Skills Knowledge and Expertise The preferred candidate MUST have Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal Experience in engineering leadership roles Confidence taking ownership of the end-to-end software development process Ability to work independently within the framework of objective-based management, rather than task-based. Strong experience of backend development using Python Strong experience building modern web and mobile app backend using RESTful APIs Ability to design and implement system architectures involving data pipelines, APIs, and multiple data stores. Strong knowledge of different types of data store, including SQL databases, key-value stores, and graph databases Experience integrating data science models into system architectures. Experience building APIs for both web and mobile apps The preferred candidate SHOULD have Familiarity with Heroku Familiarity with AWS Familiarity with Django #J-18808-Ljbffr