Lead Software Engineer

Salary Competitive

ScreenCloud helps businesses communicate better with their teams and customers using simple digital signage software. Think of us as the operating system for all the screens at a company. We have over 7000 customers around the world, including household names like Amazon, BBC, Sonos, Dropbox, and Uber. We’re a globally distributed team – with offices in London, Belfast, Los Angeles and Bangkok. About a third of the ScreenCloud team work remotely from their homes, cafes or the beach.


This is a great time to come on board. We’re well-funded, have a fast growing customer base, and are established as an excellent educator. Our vision is to be the go-to brand for learning about digital signage. This is a chance to assist with our ambitious brand plans, it’s going to be quite an adventure.


You will...

- Play a crucial role in helping us revolutionise how we build apps and 3rd party integrations.

- Build high-throughput data ingestion and analysis systems, allowing the display of actionable data in real-time.

- Help plan how the system scales across the globe to cope with future demand.

- Help grow our high performing team by mentoring junior staff, and helping to recruit other highly capable developers.


You might be a great fit for this role if you have the:

- Skills and drive to deliver great software

- Ambition to help drive the architecture in our migration from SaaS to PaaS

- Desire to, and experience of, mentoring other developers to help them make the best engineering decisions possible.


You will need:

- A solid understanding of modern web protocols and how to apply them to build highly scalable, resilient APIs, platforms and services.

- Experience building messaging systems, such as Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis / SQS.

- Experience leading small, autonomous teams of developers, working in an agile setting

- Experience developing apps on a leading public cloud, with AWS experience preferable

- An understanding of modern protocols, such as GraphQL, OAuth2, WebSockets.

- Some experience developing UI components, using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, preferably React.

- Solid experience in a modern language, preferably C# (.Net Core) or Java


For the right candidate, we offer:

- Unlimited holiday leave

- Flexible working, including work from home

- Annual company offsite (this year we are going to Thailand)

- Pension and Share options scheme

- A great working environment in a fantastic co-working space

- The latest Macbook Pro or whatever else you need to do your job

- Above market salaries

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Pension plan
Pension plan

We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

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Working at
ScreenCloud

Screens are everywhere, covering walls across the world from local shop floors up to major offices and Universities. Sadly, they're often left repeating the same dull content forever.ScreenCloud brings screens to life, with simple to use apps that hook into everything from your company's Google docs, to your latest Instagram pics.We are a high-growth startup, and we're looking for the best and brightest to help us grow that app gallery from 80 apps right now to countless more in the future.

Read more about ScreenCloud

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