Software Engineering Director, microservices eCommerce

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Job description

Director of Software Engineering, Head of clients software engineering. Software Solutions Architect,

Permanent or Contract

A Lead technical solutions architect, you will bring your extensive experience designing, developing and deploying full stack microservices E-commerce architectures,

Design of composable commerce solution architect of most sophisticated API-based enterprise commerce platforms and Commerce as a Services (CaaS) solutions.

Experience:

• 10+ years relevant experience which includes at least 5 years' experience as an architect designing complex solutions for mid-size and enterprise companies in the consumer commerce sector.
• Experience working directly with customers in service/consulting engagements at all levels
• Significant development and delivery experience with large-scale Full Stack JavaScript, enterpirise Java and cloud based solutions, SaaS, PaaS, distributed microservices architectures .
• Solid knowledge of advanced software engineering techniques, specifically with Java, Full Stack JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala or similar
• eCommerce experience in any of the following; commercetools, elastic path, BigCommerce or bespoke full stack servless commerce architectures
• Linux operating systems knowledge
• Familiarity with Front End, serverless, JavaScript (react, node, next) and other web technologies.
• Spring framework, serverless, terraform, Vercel
• Microservices, SOA architectures
• Drive best practices adoption
• Mentor and coach to ensure growth of teams
• Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure or similar)
• Solid understanding of APIs, microservices architecture and cloud deployments (serverless)
• Good knowledge of application security and performance
• Can drive quality and innovation with team, build things that can scale
• Can articulate and document complex things in a simple, structured and concise way for senior stakeholders
• Agile Delivery experience, DevOps, Automation, CI/CD, containerisation, Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift, Terraform, Vercel, Lambda
• Experience of working in an Agile teams agile tools including JIRA and Confluence
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs & services
• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration
• TDD/TDD) experience
• Experience with other eCommerce applications or products

This advert was posted by Staffworx Limited - a UK based recruitment consultancy supporting the global E-commerce, software & consulting sectors.

Services advertised by Staffworx are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business. Staffworx operate a referral scheme of £500 or new iPad for each successfully referred candidate, if you know of someone suitable please forward for consideration