Position: Technical Lead
Company: Zoot
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Responsibility

Technical leadership and mentorship of agile delivery teams
Champion software development best practices, e.g DRY, POLA, TDD etc and ensure quality of code
Plan and estimate technical tasks
Guide teams through technical issues and challenges
Overall design, implementation and deployment of large-scale mission-critical SaaS architectures comprising of (but not limited to):
Re-usable and configurable design patterns and microservices
Complex relational and non-relation database schemas
Complex Third-party API integrations
Responsive HTML5 web applications
Secure RESTful or SOAP APIs
Support QA with complex automated testing
Knowledge / Skills

Experience in system integration, server side and client side
Good understanding of data / messaging formats, such as XML, JSON, CSV
Good understanding of standard API communication protocols, such as XML-SOAP, REST
Good understanding of encryption methods, such as PGP, TLS, XML-DSig etc.
Good understanding of different authentication methods, such as OAuth, JWT, maTLS etc. preferred but not essential
Experience in front-end web development e.g. responsive design, media rules and breakpoints, CSS, SCSS
Good understanding of the HTML5 DOM
Understanding of the WebSocket protocol
Good understanding of JavaScript / JQuery
Experience in Database development, relational and document based, performance optimisation
Scripting experience with Python
Good understanding of the Linux Shell, SSH, SCP
Personal Profile

Experience leading team of developers
Computer science degree or similar
Basic business process analysis and business process design skills
Experience in using MS Excel, Word, Visio
Conscientious working style with emphasis on quality
Experience in risk management and/or in the financial services industry preferred but not essential
Zoot Offers

Flexible working schedule, home and office split
Competitive salary and a high-quality working environment
New office in Leeds city centre located near the train station
Interesting and challenging international clients and projects
Highly-motivated, highly-qualified team of friendly colleagues
Know-how, professionalism and an international market leading reputation