Senior Full-stack Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Full-stack Engineer. This will be a key role in leading a full-stack engineering team responsible for delivering and enhancing key HELIX GenOne applications, including Infinity and Analytics. Acting as the Technical Product Owner, you will drive product development, provide technical leadership, solve complex challenges, and support the growth and development of your team while ensuring solutions align with business objectives.

We see this role as being full time, although this is negotiable. Ideally, we would like this role to be based in Edinburgh/Dundee, on a hybrid basis to allow for regular interaction with the wider business and colleagues in other departments.

What you will do

As a member of the Software Engineering team your key responsibilities would be:

Technical Leadership

• Apply engineering skills to collaboratively produce the varied designs and solutions needed to meet a wide variety of full stack technical challenges
• Effectively communicate designs and solutions to others
• Work with their team to build a strong culture of quality and drive up technical standards. This includes diligent code reviews and a solid understanding of effective full stack software testing

Product Ownership

• Take pride in the products they develop and champion their capabilities in conversations with internal and external customers
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to understand the various requirements on their products. They will use that understanding to develop product roadmaps alongside commercial team members
• Combine their understanding of customers’ needs with creative and innovative approaches to generate new ideas and features
• As the Infinity and Analytics product owner, this role will help set the standard by which GenOne Application development processes are judged across our business

Technical Management

• Take an active role in team management processes to help plan work, control development risks and shape the delivery of features
• Help the team develop self-management skills by maintaining a focus on risk management, simple and effective implementations, and a resistance to overengineering
• Provide technical solutions to management difficulties through the effective use of CI pipelines and excellent end-to-end documentation of user needs, development tasks and product releases
• Provide line management and engineers on their team by supporting career development, holding regular 1:1 meetings and conducting annual reviews
• Lead by example, demonstrating excellent development practices, while encouraging a constructive dialogue in all technical decisions
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the team, and between the team and others