Full Stack Tech Lead

Job Description

Songkick is the great live music startup. Since 2007, weve set about making it as easy, fun and fair as possible for you to see your favourite artists live. With 6 million event listings, more than 17 million music fans across the globe use Songkick totrack their favourite artists, discover awesome concerts and never ever miss out.At Songkick were dedicated to making sure you never miss your favourite artist live. This means building applications to understand whats happening in the live music industry;to allow fans to track artists and purchase concert tickets, to allow artists to engage with their fans; to allow our amazing team to make all of this a reality, and much more.*About the role:*Were looking for an enthusiastic Full Stack Tech Lead to helplead the technical direction of a product team. Youll work in a small team alongside a Product Manager and Design Lead to help steer the product, inform what we build, determine the technical feasibility, as well as helping to prioritise work and keep morejunior developers on track & delivering value.This is an ideal opportunity for a strong individual contributor to work alongside and mentor a small team of developers or a current Tech Lead who wants to own the front end of a product that reaches millionsof users.*Responsibilities:** Leading development, and driving architecture and functionality, on products across the Songkick platform in collaboration with other product and platform teams* Working closely with product and design leads to plan, prioritiseand deliver high-impact work* Mentoring other engineers and guiding software development best practices to deliver well-tested, performant and quality code* Coordinating with other product and platform teams*Requirements:** 5+ years experience as a SoftwareDeveloper* Experience leading the technical direction for a Product team, planning and organising Developer workloads* Experience with Agile methodologies such as TDD, pair programming, refactoring, continuous deployment* Ability to work in a flexible manner,supporting the team in building prototypes quickly, and evolving these into scalable production-quality systems*Big plus of you have:** Experience developing commercial web applications in modern programming languageswe use Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), MySQL,Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery/DataFlow)* A love of live music* Worked on a Service-Oriented Architecture* Data processing and analytics experience-* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays* Group pension scheme with employer contributionsup to 6%* Bonus scheme* Private Medical Insurance* Private Dental Insurance* Cycle to work scheme* Quarterly team socials* Health & wellbeing* Yoga* Support Band first aiders* Wellness Week* EAP* Wellbeing coaching* GP appointments* Spotify subscription* Familybenefits* Childcare support* Caregiving leave* Life assurance* 21 away work days a year* Corporate discount and cash back portal for selected retailers across the country including discounted cinema tickets* Gym membership* Telephone call* Takehome codingexercise - 2 hours spent max. * Technical chat* Culture chat with Songkickers* Leadership chat* OfferRuby, Ruby on Rails, React, Java, JavaScriptRuby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL