Hi there, we’re Brainlabs, the world’s most innovative digital marketing agency with a world class company culture to match. We’re absolutely crushing it in the UK and the US and are now looking for an experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer to join our team. If you’re keen to support us on our mission to be the best agency in the world, take a look at what we have on offer:
So, what’s the Senior Principal Software Engineer role do?
We are looking for an experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer with an advanced technical skill set who demonstrates technical authority and is passionate about software development.
You will provide leadership and manage a mixed ability team of developers. You will be a hands-on manager who uses technical, communication and administrative skills to take ownership, oversee and complete engineering projects. You will possess a strong ability to work cross functionally and plan and coordinate work within your team and cross-functional teams.
You will demonstrate technical authority and make decisions and recommendations that have an important impact on extensive engineering activities. You will have the ability to demonstrate creativity, foresight and mature engineering judgement in anticipating and solving problems and independently solve problems that arise. You will be capable of planning and must be capable of designing large systems with high quality technical documentation.
You will quickly gain a thorough understanding of the business, how other departments within the business operate, how this links with engineering services from a commercial perspective. You will proactively support the wider business and individual departments in line with the engineering roadmap.
You will have strong problem solving skills and use these in order to collaborate with your team to research and devise new approaches and evaluate different techniques and recommendations.
You will prepare progress reports to present to management through the duration of the project, report any concerns and obtain approval for necessary changes. You will possess excellent communication skills at all levels of the business.
You will have a commercial outlook and be able to communicate with all levels of seniority within Brainlabs. You will take ownership of projects and will be proactive in your own learning, both inside and outside of assisted training. You will be self motivated with a passion for learning new technologies and embracing rapid change. You will have a commercial outlook with the ability to see wider implications within the Company. You will have an in-depth understanding of the industry and emerging products to validate decisions.
You will work in an engineering scrum team, with strong problem solving skills to be able to define the problem, research and discuss solutions, select an optimal solution, test the solution, complete the work to end user satisfaction and review the results.
We offer flexible-working and the right candidate will take ownership of their role and be accountable to the internal project teams they work in.
All sounds great right? So here’s what we are looking for:
- Must have experience of managing and pastoral care of team members
- Must have experience of allocating tasks to mixed ability scrum teams in an Agile environment
- Must have extensive Python & Django experience
- Must have experience in Docker and a cloud platform (eg Google Cloud or AWS)
Desirable experience
- Node.js
- UI
- Github
- Kubernetes
- Vue.js (or similar framework)
Is Brainlabs right for you?
We’re famed for our world class company culture. We cultivate an environment where everyone is excited to come into work. As a Software Developer at Brainlabs you will have the opportunity to work across the full development life-cycle on new and innovative products. We are an agile team and approach development using the latest technologies and engineering practices. We encourage new and innovative solutions to problems. You will be surrounded by knowledgeable, collaborative, resourceful colleagues. You’ll need to collaborate across the organisation and welcome the change and dynamism of a growing company. In turn, your career will grow at an unprecedented pace. Sounds too good to be true? Check out our website to see for yourself.
In order to maintain our fantastic working environment, culture fit is essential in selecting our newest recruits. It’s not only important to find someone who is capable of performing their job duties, it’s essential you are positive, collaborative, curious, and have a weird thing for processes and systems. Apply today!
Brainlabs is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application process, please let us know.
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