Tech Lead

At ResponseTap we are passionate about technology; and immensely proud of our market-leading voice centric marketing platform. This role is an outstanding opportunity for you to make a huge difference, and dramatically improve our ability to release software. We embrace new ideas, practices, and technologies; and you will hopefully bring a wealth of experience and energy to the business.

In this role you’ll be leading a multi-functional agile team using a mixture of standard methodology, common sense and pragmatism. You will live and breathe Software Engineering; and have amazing people and communication skills. You should be excited by technology; grabbing chances to influence positive changes - and be able to instil this passion in others.

What will I be doing ?

You’ll be leading a driven, collaborative and agile team, comprising Software Engineers and QA Engineers, and will work alongside a Product Owner

You will provide guidance, mentoring and coaching for the engineers in the team, and help drive improvements to technology and processes

Crafting, developing and maintaining our products

You'll contribute to key design decisions in collaboration with our Product Owners and other Tech Leads

Drive innovation with new and interesting ideas for our products, services and processes that could add new value

Collaborate by attending guilds and meetups, and sharing your knowledge and experience with others

Knowledge of other languages such as Python or GoLang would be advantageous

Much of our platform is written in Java, however we will adopt new technologies, and use whatever language is the best fit

Do you have the following experience? (it’s essential!)

You'll have demonstrable experience in building scalable and resilient enterprise web applications

You'll be used to (and enjoy) working in high availability, high scale environments

Java 7 and above

Relational databases (e.g. MySQL)

NoSQL Databases

Working in and leading Agile teams

Virtualization / container environments, e.g. Docker

Nice to haves

Python

Experience in cyber security

Maven/Gradle/Go/Jenkins

CloudConfig

Practical experience of unit/integration testing using TDD

Kubernetes

AWS / Serverless computing

SaaS Platform

• CI/CDHigh load, low latency
• Message based systems (JMS, RabbitMQ)
• SOLID principles

JetBrains IDE

Experience of Marketing Technology

What can we offer you ?

Relaxed, friendly, open-plan office with great views

Flexible working

Free designated car parking space

Free tea, coffee and soft drinks

Childcare vouchers

Perkbox access with lots of shop and restaurant discounts plus mobile phone insurance

Onsite creche, shops, post office and restaurant

Pool & Table football

Charity days

Social Friday afternoons

Regular social events

Does this sound good to you? If so, please apply today and we'll get back to you as soon as we can to let you know next steps.

ResponseTap aims to ensure that no employee or potential employee is subject to unlawful discrimination, either directly or indirectly, on the grounds of gender, race (including colour, nationality or ethnic origin), disability, sexual orientation, marital status, part-time status, age, religion or belief. This commitment applies to all aspects of employment.