Technical Lead Engineer

Technical Lead Engineer

Who We Are and What We Do

At SilverRail, we're on a mission to reshape the way the world travels, and we're inviting you to be part of this journey. Rail is becoming the go-to choice for short and medium-haul travel worldwide, and we're here to help make it happen.

In the face of the ongoing climate crisis, our vision is crystal clear. We are transforming the online customer experience for rail travel, making it easier than ever for customers to find, buy and use rail. Our cutting-edge technology is the backbone of rail and travel agencies worldwide, making it effortless for travellers to choose the eco-friendly option and reduce their carbon footprint.

We have more than 15 years of trailblazing success behind us, and our teams are spread across the globe, with bases in London, Boston, Brisbane, and Stockholm. We thrive on the philosophy of 'fail-fast-fail-early,' which drives us to find ingenious solutions to complex challenges.

Join us, and help shape the future of travel!

The Role

As a Technical Lead Engineer, you’ll thrive on collaborating with your peers while leading and participating in the design and development process with product owners. You’ll bring your passion for writing clean, solid code to our highly scalable system. You will bring your technical and functional experience, working hands on in development as well as acting as a leader and manager to an engineering team.
This role will be leading a new scrum team developing the back-end for our customer platform, working alongside a front-end team to deliver an outstanding product.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software components including unit and integration tests as well as documentation.

• Turn business requirements into engineering requirements. Write Backlog Stories in Jira.

• Work with team members to design high-volume, high-availability applications and services deployed in AWS to meet those business requirements

• Definition and evolution of REST and SOAP APIs, including Customer API development

• Promotion of modular, testable and maintainable Spring applications

• Writing clean, maintainable, scalable and secure code while following best practices, and leading fellow team members in these practices.

• Develop high level project plans to meet customer needs and lead the team to execute against the business commitments using Agile and Scrum methodologies.

• Collaborate effectively within a cross-functional organization to prioritize, scope, and communicate progress of deliverables

• Be able to leverage production monitoring tools to troubleshoot production issues.

• Mentor and guide junior developers on the team
  

Required Competence and Skills

• BSc or equivalent experience, plus 5 years’ hands-on experience.

• Good knowledge of Java 17+, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and relational and non-relational databases including MySQL.

• Experience working on SaaS platforms, ideally in booking, payments or e-commerce.

• Experience with modern data storage using NoSQL.

• Experience with REST API design.

• Experience building JSON and XML API’s.

• Experience working in an Agile (Scrum) environment

• Experience with micro-services and SaaS architectures.

• Previous experience in leading teams to apply CI/CD in development practice. GitLab experience would be beneficial.

• Demonstrated experience in the areas of multithreading, scalability, and application of design patterns supporting high-availability services.

• Experience of AWS Kubernetes and Docker implementations.

• Experience with event driven architectures and messaging systems is a plus

• Experience refactoring application domains and services

• Ability to independently lead and contribute to projects spread across multiple development teams.

• Outstanding leadership, time management, and communication skills and the ability to work independently
  

Why us?

• We are an accredited flexible company and were named in Flexa’s Top 50 Most Flexible Companies: https://flexa.careers/companies/silverrail

• We utilise a hybrid working model, providing equipment for home working alongside one or two monthly visits to our beautiful central London office.

• We offer a highly competitive benefits package including private healthcare and rail discounts.

• We provide a wealth of career development opportunities with training that is individual, focused on improving your skills and helping you become the best professional you can be.

• Our team’s health and wellness is genuinely important to us, so we offer a number of wellbeing seminars and membership to the #1 leading meditation app.

• A unique opportunity to work for a tech company that is helping the environment by revolutionising the way we travel.

Our values are simple: Do Good by working for a better tomorrow; Think Big Act Smart by being curious, adaptable and data-driven; and remember that through collaboration we will always be Stronger Together.

*We are a neurodiverse employer and are working hard to improve our recruitment processes, so if there is any way that we can make the recruitment experience better for you then please let us know in your application - all information will be treated as strictly confidential*