Lead Developer

My1Login is the UK’s leading, multi-award-winning Identity and Access Management service that enables seamless user access to web, mobile and Windows desktop applications delivering operational savings and protecting businesses against the financial and reputational damage of a data breach.

We are looking for a full stack developer with .Net, JavaScript, SQL / NoSQL and Azure experience. Proven experience leading and mentoring other developers.

We are small, collaborative, and fast-moving team who thrive on challenges and the opportunities they present. We sit at the front-end of technology and our team members thrive while working on modern and exciting cloud technologies. We pride ourselves on delivering a secure, scalable, reliable, and modern distributed service to our customers. If you want to advance your career by getting hands-on with modern cloud technologies and work on difficult problems, then you align with us, and we would love to hear from you.

Location: Based in Glasgow with requirement for occasional travel within the UK and potentially overseas.

Responsibilities

• Development of agreed roadmap to time and quality across the My1Login ecosystem

• Estimating and breaking down large developments into small units of work

• Hands-on development of roadmap features

• Oversight and support of others in the development of features

• Designing new features and changes to the existing platform

• Inputting into strategy and architecture discussions

• Proposing process, feature, and design changes to optimise for flow & efficiency

• Driving change to improve the organisation

• Exemplifying best practice and process governance within the team

• Advising the management team on technical matters

• Ensuring management and stakeholder alignment on features

• Ownership of code and design quality

• Leading and mentoring others in best practices, code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, whiteboard discussions

• Engaging in pre-sales and customer driven activities as required by the business

• Keeping up to date with changes in the technology industry

• Supporting a robust, resilient, secure, and available service for our customers

• Participating in the out of hours process and customer support related duties

Required Skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent experience of Lifecycle and CI pipelines using tools such as (e.g. Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Blue/Green Deployment, JIRA, Confluence)

• Good knowledge and experience of SQL and NoSQL database technologies

• Excellent experience of distributed version control (i.e. Git)

• Excellent knowledge of cloud operations

• Strong knowledge and understanding of design (GoF), distributed systems design and architectural patterns

• Experience leading & influencing software engineering best practices within the team and across others for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build and deployment processes, testing, and operations

• Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic ability

• Practitioner of TDD / BDD and automated testing

• Performance optimisation and tuning

Desired Skills

• Experience implementing encryption algorithms and building secure products

• Demonstrable experience of driving process or practice improvement within a team

• Web, Mobile, Windows Desktop Application or Browser extension development experience

• Active Directory integration experience

• One, or more, personal or side projects which can be referenced (e.g. on GitHub)

• Previous development experience in the IAM or other tech security industry

Attributes

• Good written and verbal communications

• Customer facing experience

• Customer first mindset

• Ability to collaborate well with stakeholders and colleagues

• Able to work in a small team

• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision

• Able to cope with dynamically changing priorities

• Desire to improve process, practice, and product quality

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Computer Science / Tech related subject, demonstrable experience, or relevant alternative qualifications

• Minimum ten years’ relevant experience, at least two in a similar role