Lead Software Engineer in Bristol

Department: Technology

Location: Bristol, UK

Compensation: £70,000 – £90,000 / year

DescriptionOur aim at Made Tech is to use human‐centred technology to improve our society.

We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone.

Are you a Software Engineer that wants to actually see the real‐world impact from what you help to create? Our mission is simple! We believe we can use tech to make public services better.

We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on.

At Made Tech, we\’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage all people from under‐represented groups to apply for roles with us. Have we caught your interest? Please read on…

About the roleWe primarily write and deliver custom software for the public sector. We work across central and local government, as well as in health, and our past lies in the technology startup world. Technical excellence for us isn\’t about delivering to feature lists. We place a strong emphasis on outcome‐based delivery; ensuring our customers goals are understood and achieved with the technology we deploy.

High performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to iteratively and rapidly deliver changes all the way through to production. To do this we combine our extensive cloud automation knowledge with DevOps culture.

We ensure we document our architecture and infrastructure as code, using technologies such as Terraform and OpenAPI. Containerisation is a big part of empowering our teams to develop, deploy and scale their applications, but so too is using AWS Lambda and avoiding the complexity of stateful services altogether. Right tool for the job.

For us, DevOps is about culture rather than roles and titles. Even though this role is for someone with strong DevOps experience, the biggest impact you will have is coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build. You won\’t be building infrastructure in isolation or charged with deploying other people\’s work into production. You\’ll empower teams with the mantra: you build it, you run it!

Our teams have used Java, Ruby, Python, ES6 with React, C# with .NET Core. We don\’t limit ourselves as a company and we expect all our Engineers to be keen on learning new technologies. Automation is important to our teams, so we make sure there is a CD pipeline set up to build, test, and release many times per day.

We grow a team of language‐agnostic engineers, which you might already consider yourself to be, who are versed in a mix of paradigms such as object‐oriented, functional, declarative, event‐based and aspect‐oriented. To create this environment our Senior Engineers need to embrace sharing their knowledge and skills with others, and they need to keep an open mind – we\’d love to hear some examples of mentoring, coaching and growing team members. Maybe you will have written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two.

Skills, Knowledge & ExpertiseEssential Skills

Written code with tests

Delivery in an agile environment

Worked across a variety of programming languages

Worked with databases

Worked with APIs

Worked with at least one Cloud platform

Debugging experience in a range of systems

Evidence of self‐development – we value keen learners

Drive to deliver outcomes for users

Desire to mentor & people manage

Nice to Haves

Consultancy experience

Working directly with customers and users

Working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technology working within the same cycles

Showcasing and presentation skills

Agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and/or Kanban

Pair programming – we pair around 50% of the time

Writing code with test‐driven development

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Component‐based design techniques such as using pattern libraries, styled‐components, CSS‐in‐JS, BEM, and/or SUIT CSS

Debugging infrastructure

The REACT ecosystem including a test‐driven approach

Infrastructure as code technology like Terraform and Cloud Formation

Familiarity with architectural and design patterns

Use of architectural design records

Security ClearanceWe require all successful candidates for this role to be eligible for an SC (security check) clearance. Eligibility requires 5 years continuous UK residency and 5 years employment history (or back to full‐time education). If it becomes apparent during the interview process that you may not be eligible for SC, we won\’t be able to progress your application.

Job BenefitsAt this point, we hope you\’re feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don\’t feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies.

We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We\’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

Support in applyingIf you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@madetech.com.

When you apply, we\’ll put you in touch with a member of our talent team who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. We\’ve put together this blog as a resource to share more about reasonable adjustments and some examples of what this could include. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

Life at Made TechWe\’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it\’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neuro‐diversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you\’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.

Benefits

30 days Holiday – we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible Working Hours – we are flexible with whatever hours you work

Flexible Parental Leave – we offer flexible parental leave options

Remote Working – we offer part‐time remote working for all our staff

Paid counselling – we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice

Senior levelMid‐Senior level

Employment typeFull‐time

Job functionEngineering and Information Technology

IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting

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