Lead Software Engineer

The Driftrock engineering team is on the hunt for a Lead Software Engineer who will work directly with everyone in the company to continuously improve our product, drive technical innovation, and help scale our engineering capabilities..

Responsibilities

You will be expected to:

• Take ownership of complex technical problems, leading the design and implementation of solutions
• Be an active leader within of our engineering team, working together with the other developers and mentoring them to help them grow their skills in a productive and challenging environment
• Have a strong data-driven mindset when assessing the value that our work has for customers
• Act as a bridge between business requirements and technical implementation, ensuring we are building the right things the right way

• You should have strong backend experience (expert level in Elixir or similar languages) and some experience with frontend frameworks.
• You have experience leading technical initiatives, from architectural design to delivery.
• You should demonstrate a desire to continuously learn to improve your technical, communication and other soft skills.
• You have a clear interest in leadership and management pathways; you enjoy helping others succeed as much as you enjoy shipping code.
• You value and enjoy working in a small team, collaborating closely with other engineers as well as members of other teams.
• You can provide new and diverse viewpoints for our technical and product discussions and be comfortable making (and standing by) technical decisions.
• You are interested in, and have a view on agile practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, pair programming, code reviews and retrospectives.
• You have a strong track record of mentoring engineers and a proactive view on how to foster a high-performing, happy team.
• You should have some experience mentoring engineers and a view on how to create a productive team.
• You are keen to ensure there is a high standard of quality and security in the software we produce as a team.
• You can work in the same timezone as the rest of the team (flexible)