UK Lead Software Engineer

Location:
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Team:
R&D
Type:
Full-time
Start Date:
May 13

Who We Are

Gelt is a global company with operations in the US, UK, and Israel. We are currently seeking a skilled and experienced Tech Lead to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining our applications and services. This position is hybrid requiring 3 days per week in our Nottingham (Long Eaton) office.


Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee the design and implementation of product features in Gelt applications, APIs, and diagnostic and insights systems.
  • Manage an established, high-performing team.
  • Work closely with stakeholders from product, design, and engineering to align technological solutions with business goals and objectives.
  • Get your hands dirty — our tech leaders are expected to develop code alongside the team.
  • Understand complex product and feature goals and work with the team to design, review, test, and deliver them.
  • Own features end-to-end, considering user experience, data models, scalability, operability, and ongoing metrics.
  • Collaborate with the team to continuously improve standards, quality, knowledge, and communication.



Our Stack

  • Backend: NestJS, NodeJS, TypeScript, Python
  • Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript
  • Cloud: AWS
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • Utilities: Rush (monorepo), GitHub
  • Tasks & Knowledge Base: Notion, Linear
  • Communication: Slack, Zoom, Around

We are looking for someone who has:

  • 5+ years of experience in hands-on development of production systems
  • Strong production-level experience working with Typescript / Javascript / NodeJS
  • Capability to work full-stack, but leans more towards backend
  • Production-level experience working with AWS (or other cloud providers) to build, deploy, host and run services
  • Experience in front-end frameworks such as Vue, React or Angular
  • Familiarity with data engineering, relational, and NoSQL databases
  • The ability to reason and communicate your opinions, while also being a team player and accepting others' approaches
  • Clean coding skills with readable, simple, and maintainable code. You recognize bad code and search for better solutions.
  • The ability to grasp large & complex systems and their inner workings.
  • Experience in software engineering best practices (testing, code reviews, immutability, etc)
  • Full professional English proficiency (spoken and written)
  • Located within East Midlands, UK or willing to commute

We appreciate people who are:

  • Passionate about what they do
  • Fast & creative thinkers & doers
  • Friendly and approachable (good sense of humor is a must)
  • Clear communicators at technical and non-technical levels
Apply
Email your CV and a short cover letter indicating your passion for the position to careers@joingelt.com
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