Senior Full Stack Developer - Team Lead

This is a hands-on Senior Full Stack Developer – Team Lead role, with a 30% BE / 70% FE split. You’ll work alongside, and lead, a talented team providing the best-in-class, custom cinema websites worldwide.

Using your extensive experience with React.js, TypeScript, .Net, CSS/SCSS, REST APIs, you will own features and projects, collaborating with wider stakeholders such as Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Engineering Managers, with a focus on continuous improvement.

Experienced with modern Agile software development, you will advocate team quality and productivity through peer programming, code reviews, and of course your own development, producing a code base that is high quality, maintainable and always maturing.

Alongside your hands-on engineering responsibilities, you’ll also provide people leadership for your team, supporting engineers through regular one-to-ones, feedback, career development, performance conversations, and day-to-day coaching, helping to create a healthy, capable, and highly autonomous team.

About the role

• Work heavily with front-end frameworks and libraries, such as React, JavaScript, HTML, Typescript, SCSS/CSS & ES6 Vanilla Javascript
• Develop user interfaces and user experiences using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Implement responsive web design to ensure optimal user experience across various devices and screen sizes
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and address performance issues
• Build server-side applications using programming languages like Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP
• Develop and integrate APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for seamless communication between front-end and back-end systems
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure web applications
• Optimize server-side performance and troubleshoot issues
• Use version control systems like Git to manage and track changes in code
• Collaborate with team members on code repositories, resolving conflicts and ensuring code quality
• Deliver new and maintain existing features on the Umbraco-backed CMS
• Deploy web applications to hosting platforms or servers
• Configure and maintain web servers, ensuring optimal performance and security
• Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automated testing and deployment
• Write and maintain automated tests to ensure code quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and other developers
• Provide day-to-day people leadership for the team, including regular one-to-ones, coaching, feedback, career development, wellbeing support, and performance management
• Build a healthy, inclusive, and accountable team environment that supports high autonomy and effective collaboration