Lead Engineer - New Team Setup

Stelfox is exclusively partnering with a technology provider who is entering Dublin/Ireland for the first time to establish a Technology & Support Hub.

This new team will be focused on creating new features for core web & mobile solutions for the food delivery sector (POS/ePoS tech, Online ordering platform, Third party API integrations, Web & native mobile applications).

As one of the first hires, we are looking to recruit a Lead Engineer (to effectively become the Software Manager) to design and architecture various web & mobile services and managing a team of 4-5 engineers when working on end-to-end development work from PoC through to pushing into production.

This team will work across a technology stack consisting of Web (ES6+, Typescript, Node.js, React), Mobile (React Native, Flutter) and running on AWS infrastructure.

As a Lead Engineer, you will have:

• 8-10+ years commercial experience across software engineering, from design/architecture through to deployment of services.
• Strong background in either Typescript / ES6+ / Node.js and AWS or React Native / Mobile architecture.
• Strong coding standards and approach to best practice
• Strong REST API / API integration experience
• Ability & interest to lead / manage a small engineering team and be the focal point for the team during code reviews, 1-2-1's as the role become the defacto Manager/leader for the team.

Preferred experience:

• Cross Platform Development - Flutter, Kotlin, ioS
• Backend development - Node.js and Express for building scalable server-side applications.
• Architecture knowledge - understanding of micro-frontend architecture
• GraphQL & gRPC - exposure to integrating with GraphQL & gRPC

This is the opportunity to be the first hire for this new team and play a key part if hiring and shaping the team over the coming months, while getting the opportunity to create and build new feature services as well as improve existing backend architecture with the existing platform.

If this is of interest, please feel free to reach out for immediate consideration.