Staff Engineer

The role

We are looking for a highly skilled and forward-thinking staff engineer to join us and provide technical guidance and leadership to multiple product delivery teams. This is a hands-on role where your time will be split between shepherding our technical approach and the shape of the solutions we produce, and hands-on coding.

Key responsibilities

In the first 3 months you will

• For the teams in your scope, familiarise yourself with the systems they work with
• Understand the overall architectural landscape in which these systems live
• Start working closely with one team to improve their delivery and quality
• Start working on cross-cutting concerns that have an impact across the department
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the production environment setup, build pipelines, and deployment approach
• Become productive and begin delivering at your true pace
• Build relationships with key people across teams and functions
• Understand and settle into our team processes and cycles, and start forming ideas on how they can be improved
• Develop a solid grounding in your understanding of the business and how it operates

Ongoing responsibilities

Delivery

The scope of your responsibilities will be across a group of related teams as well as across the tech department.

Responsibilities across the teams within your scope:

• Supporting teams’ deliveries by being available for consulting and coaching on an ad-hoc basis
• When required, temporarily joining a team to help with complex technical tasks
• Supporting teams during product and technical discoveries, including helping build proofs-of-concept and prototypes
• Supporting teams with design and technical decisions, keeping in mind alignment and consistency across the department
• Ensuring that teams cover non-functional requirements to a high standard

?Responsibilities across the department

• Ensuring that the technical and architectural direction is aligned across the department, keeping industry best practices in mind
• Identify and work on core engineering initiatives that affect all teams
• Coach and mentor engineers across the department on best practices, and continuously foster a culture of quality and excellence

Communication

• Close collaboration with the Tech Leads of teams in your area in order to be aware of teams’ needs
• Acting as an ambassador for the Tech department, interacting with stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
• Close collaboration with other functions (e.g. Product, UX, etc.) early in the process, ensuring technical considerations are appropriately represented and considered in any decisions that are made

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• 5+ years’ experience of working in tech teams at a senior level
• Exceptional technical skills both at systems level as well as code level (hands-on)
• Strong experience in back-end development and technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL
• A pragmatic approach to trade-offs involved in software engineering
• Excellent communication skills, adapting to different audiences (tech/non-tech, engineers/executives)
• A strong desire towards (and experience of) mentoring and coaching others
• Strong experience of working with Agile methodologies
• A results-oriented mindset
• A strong sense of accountability
• Self-directed and capable of working in a dynamic environment with high attention to detail
• Naturally collaborative and approachable
• Able to convey complex information in an easily understandable manner
• Willing to initiate honest and open conversations across all levels
• Enthusiastic and engaging in convincing others of your ideas, and able to motivate them to buy into initiatives without needing to rely upon hierarchy
• Able to use the relationships you’ve built to explore and challenge ideas, and to influence decisions and outcomes
• Comfortable in holding difficult conversations, and skilled in approaching them in a forthright yet sensitive and constructive manner
• Positive in the face of change, and an advocate for continuous evolution of the team and its capabilities
• The sort of person who naturally steps forwards to take responsibility

About Sedex

More than 75,000 businesses across the world have made Sedex their trusted partner in creating a more socially and environmentally sustainable supply chain.

From our platform’s unrivalled data insights to our team’s expert guidance, Sedex makes it easy for companies to manage, assess and report on sustainability performance.

Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable.

Our Mission is to supply data-driven insight through the most accessible tools and services. We engage with companies and our community to continuously improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG)

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At Sedex, we are passionate about helping businesses become truly sustainable and ethical across their operations and supply chains. We believe that all people have the right to a safe workplace, where they are treated with respect and paid fair wages, free of harassment and discrimination. We strive to achieve these beliefs through inclusive behaviours that embody our values of being collaborative, responsible, transparent, quality driven and committed to service excellence.

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