Lead Javascript Engineer

Our client has a need for an experienced Principal Commercial Engineer to join their team. You will be part of a dynamic team that is driving the future of media technology. You will report to the Head of Commercial Engineering and collaborate with a talented group of engineers. This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about writing amazing code and constantly improving software architecture.

This requires 3 days per week on site in London.

Who are you?

• A natural leader who can steer a team in a positive direction.
• Foster and build culture within your team using the values that we set out as an organisation
• You encourage and drive an open source way of development abiding by open source principles
• You drive evolutionary and challenging architectural solutions which maintain cohesiveness across the organisation as a whole
• You thrive on speaking at events and meetups about what we do
• You take responsibility for knowledge sharing across our co-located engineering teams
• You always have an eye on the industry trends
• You ensure we follow industry best practices

You have:

• Experience creating/contributing to an open source project
• Experience managing a team of software engineers
• Architected and built performant, scalable, resilient public facing products
• Experience in Javascript
• Experience with state management systems such as Redux
• Experience in Node JS and Express
• Experience in AWS cloud platforms

Bonus if you have:

• An understanding digital advertising or Google Ad Manager (DFP)
• Experience building applications with high traffic volumes
• Experience in PHP/Wordpress