R&D Engineering Team Leader

Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

11/4/2024

Optimove is a global marketing tech company, recognized as a Leader by Forrester and a Challenger by Gartner. We work with some of the world's most exciting brands, such as Sephora, Staples, and Entain, who love our thought-provoking combination of art and science. With a strong product, a proven business, and the DNA of a vibrant, fast-growing startup, we're on the cusp of our next growth spurt. It's the perfect time to join our team of ~450 thinkers and doers across NYC, LDN, TLV, and other locations, where 2 of every 3 managers were promoted from within. Growing your career with Optimove is basically guaranteed.

Based in Dundee, Scotland, our R&D operation is a dynamic environment, where every developer can impact the flow of technology – from introducing the smallest library to making big infrastructure changes. We welcome open-minded developers who like to share knowledge and help each other to push Optimove forward using the cutting edge of today's tech. We are looking for talented developers, strong and energetic A-players interested in developing cutting-edge technology to make an impact on our company and on the entire MarTech industry. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead, mentor, motivate and inspire an agile team of developers. 
• 50-70% hands-on, design and develop full-stack, end-to-end solutions in a scalable micro-services environment
• As a data-driven company, you will work with multiple database types (e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, Redis, Mongo) and event streaming systems (e.g. Amazon SQS, Google Pub/Sub). We want you to identify and implement improvements to data quality, reliability, performance & efficiency at the level of the whole system.
• Work autonomously and collaboratively within the team and with Product Managers, UX Designers, Customer Success, DevOps and other development TLs to implement creative and robust solutions to various product and customer challenges.
• See the full picture. Own your team's features and code from design to production and support, including automated testing and deployment.
  
  

Requirements:

• B.Sc. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable web architectures. 
• Passion for clean, readable code and a responsive, high-performing web experience. 
• 5+ years of experience developing backend services in one of Node.js, .NET or PHP
• Javascript or Typescript experience with a modern framework (e.g. React, Angular)
• Experience with Cloud Services (e.g. GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Experience of automated unit-testing and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of SQL database design
• Experience mentoring junior developers
• Strong leadership skills to motivate and build a winning team. 
• Working in a hybrid model from the office in Dundee.
• Eligible to work in the UK (we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time).
  
  

Advantages:

• Experience as a Scrum Master or Team Leader. 
• Understanding of micro-services architecture.
• Knowledge of no-SQL database design.
• Experience with event stream processing.
• Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker) and orchestration (e.g. K8S).
• Experience with mobile app or SDK development.
• AWS, GCP or any other certifications.
• Experience of working in a global organization with geographically distributed teams.