Company Description
At The Stepstone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods. We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it.
Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group is critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent on the market. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of your background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or interviewing, please let us know.
We have a hybrid approach to working from home and in the office!
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Job Discovery & Apply Portfolio, in the B2C business unit at The Stepstone Group. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in frontend technologies and architectures, being prepared to be hands-on if needed. A proven track record of leading large-scale projects to successful completion is a must-have. As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for driving technical excellence across the portfolio, raising the bar in FE engineering with a strong focus on rigour.
What you'll be focused on day to day:
- Technical Leadership: Establish yourself as the go-to person and the portfolio level owner of frontend engineering practices and architectural standards; providing expert guidance and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
- Cross-Team Collaboration and Influence: Work across business units to influence and help align technical strategies, disseminate expertise, and elevate engineering practices, ensuring a cohesive approach to technology within and beyond the portfolio.
- Best Practices and Adoption: Lead the implementation of high-quality coding standards, design patterns, and architectural principles, while supporting and guiding all teams within the portfolio through the integration of new technologies and frameworks.
- Complex Problem Resolution: Engage with engineering teams to tackle intricate technical issues, leveraging your deep expertise to find robust solutions.
- Upskilling and Mentoring: Actively contribute to the professional development of delivery team engineers, enabling them to excel in target technologies.
- Autonomy and Outcome-Driven: Operate with a high degree of independence, guided by outcome-based objectives.
- Product Influence: Exercise your influence to shape product direction and outcomes.
- International Collaboration: Cooperate with distributed teams across Europe, fostering a global collaboration mindset.
Qualifications
- Proven technical leadership in complex environments as an individual contributor.
- Expert in frontend architectures and technologies: React, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript.
- Highly proficient in Next.js; Familiar with React Native.
- Highly skilled in performance-oriented programming..
- Highly skilled in modern software engineering toolchain technologies
- Experienced in leveraging design systems.
- Experienced with observability and monitoring tools like Datadog, Grafana and Cloudwatch.
- Working knowledge of AWS Cloud Services is highly desirable.
- Have deep knowledge of best practice in micro-frontend, microservices, event-driven architectures and responsive web design.
- Experience actively contributing to architecture/solution design as subject matter expert.
- DDD, systems modelling, system design.
- Highly skilled in mentorship, technical enablement of engineering teams, problem solving with strong verbal and written communications.
Additional Information
Benefits and Rewards - How we recognise our employees hard work and talent
We believe in giving recognition to our employees, so if you are interested to find out more, please look at the The Stepstone Group career site.
- Holiday - We feel work-life balance is important, so we offer every single one of our employees 29 days holiday a year, plus public holidays. Everyone also has the option to buy or sell up to three days each year in our Holiday Flex scheme.
- Family Leave - We understand that laying the foundations for a smooth start to family leave will also make for an easier transition back to the workplace and subject to qualifying criteria, the benefits under the Company Family schemes are more generous than required under current legislation.
- Pension Scheme - To help our people plan for their future we offer an excellent pension scheme.
- Medical - Access to digital GP and well-being services.
- Charity - Each employee receives x2 additional days off every year to volunteer to charitable causes. We also give our employees the chance to 'give as they earn' meaning they can donate tax-free to a registered charity, and The Stepstone Group will match their contribution up to a value of £10 per month.
When you apply for a role with us you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities questionnaire. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to one of the team.
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