Lead Software Engineer

Palladium - Lead Software Engineer

Location: London-based office, with support for remote and flexible working

Reporting to: Technology Director

Salary: GBP 80,000 - GBP 90,000 (dependent on experience and level of seniority)

Experience: 8 to 10 years

Overview

At Palladium, we specialise in driving digital business transformation and delivering innovative solutions that create value and accelerate growth across a diverse range of industries and asset classes.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys the challenge of creating innovative software solutions for businesses at all stages, from start-ups to large enterprises.

At Palladium, we place customer experience at the heart of everything we do. The ideal candidate will have a strong affinity for product and service design, coupled with a deep understanding of how technology can drive positive behavioural change and deliver exceptional user experiences.

Requirements

As Lead Software Engineer at Palladium you will be responsible for:

• Lead a team of local and off-shore developers, delivering a variety of projects for external clients and our own internal SaaS platform.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable applications using a variety of technologies including React, GraphQL, Ruby and postgres
• Contribute to your team’s delivery with hands on work - from architectural design, to implementation, reviews & testing and deployment & operations
• Improve our technical delivery process, enabling projects to be delivered at a higher standard with less effort.
• Mentor junior developers and help grow their capability and capacity
  
  

What We Need From You

• Autonomous, proactive technical leader.
• Great verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a simple way to non-engineering teammates
• Strong experience of designing and building web applications in cloud.
• Hands on Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, postgres.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Git based versioning systems and CI/CD, automated functional and integration tests.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies including Scrum.
• Experience: 8-10 years.
  
  

Benefits

• A diverse team of supportive and passionate people with experience, set in a smaller bespoke consultancy atmosphere
• Flat org structure and skills/capabilities based project resourcing
• Sociable, inclusive, friendly, supportive team culture
• Annual performance based bonus
• Company pension scheme
• Bike to Work scheme
  
  

Equal Opportunities

Palladium is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. The success of Palladium depends upon our ability to recognise and leverage the capabilities of each of our employees.

With this in mind, Palladium is committed to providing equality and fairness for all recruitment applicants and employees and not discriminating against anyone because of their gender (including sex, marital status and gender reassignment), race (including ethnic origin, colour, nationality and national origin), disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or age. In addition, Palladium will not discriminate against anyone who is associated with another individual who is protected under equality legislation. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination

All employees are treated fairly and with respect. Selection for employment, promotion, training or any other benefits is done on the basis of aptitude and ability. Palladium is also committed to preventing discrimination of any type against its employees by third parties such as suppliers, clients and the general public. The responsibility for upholding this commitment is shared by, and is intended to benefit, every employee.

At Palladium, we specialise in driving digital business transformation and delivering innovative solutions that create value and accelerate growth across a diverse range of industries and asset classes.