Lead Server Engineer

Department: Engineering

Based at: Salford Quays

We’re looking for an experienced Lead Server Engineer to own the server-side solution on our client projects, to lead the engineers building them, navigating the complexities of large-scale client ecosystems, working across sectors from finance and retail to health and sport.

As a Lead Server Engineer you’ll set the technical direction for the server side of your project and stay hands-on delivering it, working in collaboration with Architects, The technical implementation decisions are yours to own. You will be working in a cross-functional team alongside mobile, web, QA, design and product, coaching the engineers around you and taking a leading role in refinement, planning and reviews. You’ll be the client’s main technical contact for the server side implementation.

You’ll own the implementation of the server-side architecture on your project and deliver it hands-on, setting projects up from scratch and establishing the standards the rest of the team works to.

Set projects up from scratch, including repositories, CI/CD pipelines, environments and infrastructure as code.

Own API design, data modelling and third-party integration, and the contracts between your services and the teams that consume them.

Own non-functional requirements, covering security, performance, resilience, observability and the running cost of what you build.

Own the developer test strategy for your platform, and lead code review as a coaching activity rather than a gate.

Identify and refine requirements, risks, dependencies, and assumptions as early as possible and produce accurate estimates.

Coach and mentor the engineers on your project, and take a leading role in refinement, planning, retrospectives and sprint reviews.

Work directly with clients and third parties to elicit technical requirements, map the dependencies that matter and support good decision-making.