Lead Software Engineer (Dublin)

The Role
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be working with one of our full-stack engineering teams. Transforming our platform to be software as a service, developing the next-gen SAAS marketplace for airlines. Adding capabilities to our existing suite for customers like Virgin, SAS, Jet Blue, and Aer Lingus to name but a few.
 
Key Responsibilities: 

• As a member of the Pod leadership team, your role will be split between development, providing technical support, and mentoring to the team. 
• Supporting a co-located team of highly skilled engineers.
• Technically hands-on providing estimates, designing, coding, and debugging alongside the team.  
• Working as part of an Agile environment. 
• Working closely with our quality and performance engineers. 

 
Technical Skills / Knowledge/ Experience
Essential: 

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Java development, Web Services and object orientated principles.  Highly proficient knowledge of Java.
• 2+ years’ experience technically leading a Software Engineering team ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product-based company.
• Excellent understanding of software development practices and have worked in multi-disciplined teams before.
• Solid experience in the development of highly available and scalable applications 
• Ability to learn independently.
   

Desirable: 

• Degree in Computing or Science. 
• A good understanding of Agile principles whilst working with Scrum Teams.
• Expert Knowledge is some of these technologies: Spring, J2EE, Memcached, REST, SOAP, JBoss, Tomcat, JDBC, React, JavaScript. 
• Practical experience with databases such as Oracle, Document DB and Mongo DB.
• Jenkins with a strong focus on pipelines and dev ops (SALT). 
• Atlassian suite of products bitbucket/Jira/Confluence.