Software Delivery Lead

Job title:

Software Delivery Lead

Company

Flowbird

Job description

SENIOR LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About Flowbird:

Flowbird has a presence in over 4,000 cities and towns, in 55 countries worldwide, delivering world-class innovative, intelligent transportation and parking solutions for cities on the move.

We employ over 1,000 people – all committed to creating and delivering effective, high quality, urban mobility and parking systems. Our technical and engineering expertise ensures our market leadership introducing new and emerging payment technologies and underpins our innovative products and services.

We have a wide and established global customer base including transit scheme owners, local authorities, transport and parking operators. They rely on Flowbird to provide effective solutions which enhance efficiency and deliver a significant return on investment.

Flowbird, globally and in the UK, are rapidly expanding to ensure we manage an increasing market share of a rapidly expanding urban mobility industry sector.

Location:

Flowbird’s UK headquarters in Poole are located 150 m from the edge of Europe’s largest natural harbour; It is a mecca for water sport lovers. Stunning beaches. Bustling quayside offering excellent shopping and waterside dining. Nestled between Bournemouth and the Jurassic Heritage Coast, plus less than an hour from the New Forest, Poole is the perfect career base.

Role:

Due to an increase in software development demand across a number of projects we have an opportunity for a senior software engineer lead who will be primarily focused on designing, developing and supporting the introduction of new product features, and bug fixing of legacy product issues. This role will involve working within the Devices Team, and within a Scrum team developing application software for ticketing devices.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, coding and testing of a microservice-based solutions on a number platforms – including Android and .NET primarily written in C#.
• Lead Team of software engineers and provide line management to junior members of the team
• Realise and sustain the use of a CI/CD pipeline within the teams using bitbucket, Jenkins, Artificatory
• Work with a Scrum team, attending and contributing to all agile ceremonies.
• Coordination with Software manager and senior management for reporting of progress and impediments and to implement the development roadmap.
• Contribute to the coordination of multiple Agile teams developing in parallel to a shared goal.
• Actively contribute to improve the quality of both products and services by working in accordance with internal and external quality standards.
• Assist in realising software process and tooling improvement activities.
• Ensure that Flowbird technical standards, documentation and processes are applied to all delivery artefacts.
• Assist in the refinement of functional specifications and requirements into a development backlogs, and present tested, working software in iteration reviews.
• Lead feature software designs, participate in software design reviews and provide guidance to other developers where required.
• Write effective software design and documentation.
• Resolve technical issues arising during the project lifecycle and after release.
• Assist in technical sales support and estimates for new sales opportunities or initiatives.
• Assist in maintenance of staff equipment and software licensing.
• Able for travel to other offices e.g. France

Essential Experience:

• 5+ years C#/.NET Software Development using a Visual Studio IDE, on Android and/or .NET Compact Framework.
• 3+ years developing REST/RESTful interfaces.
• 3+ years Object Oriented Design and Programming using UML, Design Patterns, SOLID principles.
• 5+ years agile experience including Scrum, Kanban, agile mindset.
• Experience of CI and the development/applicatif automated tests (TDD or BDD).
• Source control tools such as Bitbucket and VSTFS.
• CICD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Artifactory.
• Unit test and code coverage tool experience such as NUnit, SonarCube, AltCover.
• Experience of microservice architectures, REST Interfaces.

Desired Experience:

• Android development, knowledge of Xamarin is useful.
• Programming for Windows CE/Windows Embedded Compact and use of .NET Compact Framework.
• C/C++ Embedded Software Development on Linux would be useful.
• High level of experience within an embedded software development environment.
• Experience of one or more javascript technologies.
• Experience of database technologies.
• Experience of JIRA as a workflow tool
• Scaling Agile methodologies ideally including some knowledge of Disciplined Agile and LeSS and experience as Scrum Master / Architectural Owner.
• HMI design and implementation.
• Interfacing with factory engineering teams.
• Any of the following areas of expertise would be an advantage:

• Transport Ticketing.
• Point of Sale Terminals.
• Contactless Smartcards, ITSO.
• Contactless Payments and Payments Standards (cEMV, PCI).
• Internet Security and protocols – e.g. OWASP, OAuth2, OpenID.

Reports to:

Software Manager

Expected salary

£67000 per year

Location

Poole, Dorset

Job date

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 06:38:16 GMT

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