Technical Lead Full Stack Development Full Time

Virgin Media

Please note this is a hybrid position so we are interested in hearing from applicants who can consider either Central London, Reading, Hammersmith, Birmingham, or Manchester as a base location for one day a week

We are looking for an experienced full stack Technical Lead who will lead a technical team delivering digital products.

In this role, you will be the leading engineer in an Agile squad(s), ultimately responsible for the engineering quality, design, implementation, and operation of your product. You will work with business partners, front-end & back-end developers, engineers, data scientists, and UX designers to design, implement, test, deliver, document, and maintain complex applications, tools, systems, and services.

You will work with product managers in analysing business metrics and functional requirements and translate them into robust and scalable technical solutions. You will also work with cutting-edge technologies and processes to develop well-rounded skills such as data analysis, leadership, and effective program management.

In this position you will be responsible for:

40% hands-on development, 20% team leadership and mentoring, 20% representing the squad to the wider business of VM02, 20% technical interaction with senior business stakeholders.

You will own the process as well as be hands-on with the full development lifecycle of a system from insight and design through development, review, testing, integration, deployment, and operations.

You will diagnose, mitigate and root cause live issues on production solutions and are responsible for their uptime and reliability. You will also drive successful delivery of the team s product across the Virgin Media organisation and with external partners to design solutions, coordinate development, identify and resolve issues and arbitrate disputes.

The Lead Developer will drive constant improvement in best practices, design, and innovation across multiple teams within your organisation and participate in projects that involve multiple teams within your area of the Digital org and that address issues outside your normal areas of responsibility or expertise.

The key must-haves for this position are:

• Strong proven experience in Front End technologies, such as JavaScript, CSS, Html, JavaScript, and headless CMS
• Good working experience with frameworks such as Angular, React Native, and Vue.js
• Experience working with back-end languages such as Nodejs or Java
• Solid experience in DevOps and working with DevOps tooling
• Experience in creating solution designs and solution architectures
• Defining specifications for micro-services and service orchestration
• Building microservices using serverless architectures.(Experience with GKS and Google s cloud run is preferred, though equivalent experience, e.g., AWS EKS, would also suffice) Experience with API gateways will be a bonus
• Proven experience of leadership in coaching and mentoring Software Engineers and Test Engineers
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, and describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Have a deep understanding of design patterns, object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms as your initial focus will be on the implementation of integration patterns
• Experience with building large-scale consumer-facing applications
• Recent experience of developing high-quality software using agile techniques such as TDD – (test-driven development)

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• 15% company annual bonus
• Macbook
• Hybrid working
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus UK bank holidays
• A defined contribution pension scheme, run by Fidelity, matched up to 10%.
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as the Unmind App, personal medical cover (which you can opt to upgrade to cover loved ones), and critical illness cover
• Your birthday off every year, to treat yourself
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ leave, to suit your personal needs

Next Steps

If you think you’ve got some amazing skills to offer us, and Virgin Media feels like a place where you can belong, we’d love to learn more about you. Once you’ve submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, are likely to include 1-2 rounds of interviews.

HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, Node.js, JavaReact Native, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Java, AWS, Kubernetes, TDD, Headless CMS, Vue.js, Node.js, CI/CD