Staff Software Engineer

Management Level

F

Role Summary
The staff engineer role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Staff Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

You will be required to undertake the following specific activities:

• Ensure you adhere and supporting your Squad in adhering to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
• Promote engineering excellence and quality through appropriate use of analysis tools, control gates and peer reviews by inculcating news ways of thinking to improve design, productivity, and quality
• Be involved with and promote the evaluation of emerging technologies, models, methods etc. on an ongoing basis to enable competitive differentiation and strengthening of existing product technology; drive adoption within your squad as required
• Foster optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed
• Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
• Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

The key skills and experience required for this role can be summarised as follows:
 

• Agile Methodologies - Scrum
• Efficiency improvement
• Configuration management
• Release readiness
• Documentation / technical writing
• Process, data, system engineering
• Analytical - business, process, data, system
• Lifecycle managementProblem solving

Technical Skills Required:
 

• Full Stack development
• REST/WCF Services
• Database Design
• Responsive web design
• Dependency Injection
• Data access and persistence
• ORM frameworks
• Unit and integration testing Modern patterns and practices
• Web accessibility standards

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• 3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives  

• Business related certification expense reimbursement

• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents

• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift

• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.