Technical Lead (mobile/React)
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
* THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE WITH THE EXPECTATION OF 3 WEEKLY VISITS TO THE TANFIELD OFFICE.*
Working within an agile delivery team, you will provide technical leadership, participate in product design discussions, drive technical design, ensure best in class development processes are followed and ensure maintenance of our environments is a priority. You will be customer obsessed in your approach to quality and delivery.
Responsibilities will involve:-
You will enjoy a fast-paced development environment where the next phase is only around the corner. You will care about continuous improvement and modernising our approaches.
General experience
Technical Skillset
Additionally, the following skill areas would be advantageous:
Imagine what it would be like to work at the UK’s leading tech developer to the country’s biggest and best pubs and restaurants? From EPoS to loyalty, CRM to table bookings, stock control, recipe management and BI Reporting giving business critical insights – our tech includes everything an operator needs to run their hospitality business. Our customer obsession shapes our product roadmap. We bring passion for our customers and dedication to innovation to the everyday.
We are very much a family company not just in name. Zonal people work together and look out for each other. Smart, inspiring, forward-thinking people who thrive on building solutions for complex problems. Trusted to be accountable, you’ll find that everyone around you shares a passion for delivering value to our customers and striving to always do better. We provide a flexible working environment with a culture to help everyone achieve their best.
What you’ll do
Working within an agile delivery team, you will provide technical leadership, participate in product design discussions, drive technical design, ensure best in class development processes are followed and ensure maintenance of our environments is a priority. You will be customer obsessed in your approach to quality and delivery.
Responsibilities will involve:-
- Support our product and Software Development Managers in prioritisation, scoping and leading delivery of product features in the exciting world of Future State Architecture
- Work as part of our development team to enhance scalability, performance, maintainability, configurability and usability
- Support, mentor, and coach other members of the team
- Be involved in the entire life-cycle of features, including idea creation, deployment, and longer term updates and enhancements
- Work on a wide variety of different challenges across the product and codebase
Who you are
You will enjoy a fast-paced development environment where the next phase is only around the corner. You will care about continuous improvement and modernising our approaches.
General experience
- You have been leading developers for at least a year
- You have experience liaising with stakeholders in areas such as product, UX, devops, architecture and more
- You can translate difficult business requirements into software designs your team can understand and implement
- You are a role model, possess a positive attitude and inspire others to do their best
- You will be passionate about creating a product you can be proud of
- You are familiar with security best practices applied to web and backend applications
- Great at asking awkward questions, kindly
- Motivated by learning new things and using those to make a positive difference
- Comfortable challenging and raising issues at any level
- Knowledgeable about a range of technologies, and quick to learn others
- Able to zero-in on bugs without looking at the code, based on your experience and intuition
- Able to consider the broader impact of your design and coding decisions and those of others
- Great at breaking down big tasks into small chunks, solving tricky problems and tackling risks
- Used to working with agile development teams on large software products
- Ability to lead a team both remotely and office based.
Technical Skillset
- React Native experience
- Unit testing experience
- Version control with Git
- Knowledge of APIs (Restful APIs, OpenAPI specs, ...)
- Container technology experience (Docker, docker-compose, ...)
- Experience with one cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Google, ...)
- Database experience
- Experience with messaging technology (RabbitMQ, ServiceBus, ...)
Additionally, the following skill areas would be advantageous:
- Knowledge of EPOS systems/hospitality industry.
- Native mobile development (iOS, Android)
- Experience working within Agile/scrum environments.
- Knowledge of TFS/Azure DevOps.
- Full stack development experience
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