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Lead Backend Software Engineer
£80,000 - 100,000
NOQ Events Limited
Acklam Road 242, London
£80,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Node.js is your PRIMARY backend language, with recent roles being Node.js-native.
- You have led a squad of 3–5 engineers with accountability for sprint delivery.
- You have owned sprint commitments to a Product Owner, managing delivery slips and scope changes.
- You have coached engineers day-to-day, conducting regular 1:1s and providing specific feedback.
- You have designed and run a technical hiring loop, conducting interviews and providing written recommendations.
- You have owned PostgreSQL in production, including schema design and complex queries.
- You have deployed and operated services on AWS, working with EKS and IAM.
- You have been the primary incident responder, managing production issues and writing postmortems.
- Your CV contains specific metrics related to system performance and reliability.
- You are based in the UK and can work in our London office four days a week for the first six months.
Responsibilities
- Own sprint planning, capacity commitment, and backlog finalization for your squad.
- Lead daily standups, identify blocks, and resolve delivery slips promptly.
- Maintain and enforce a Definition of Done for all PRs and features.
- Manage sprint-level risks and communicate scope changes proactively to the Product Owner.
- Write, review, and approve PRs as the technical gatekeeper for your squad.
- Enforce quality gates in CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with QA on testing strategies.
- Lead feature and module design and escalate cross-cutting decisions to the Architect.
- Monitor post-release performance to ensure that shipped code works as intended.
- Drive codebase refactoring in alignment with the MongoDB to PostgreSQL migration strategy.
- Serve as incident commander for production issues, coordinating fixes and stakeholder communication.
- Own reliability improvements, monitoring, alerting, and observability initiatives.
- Write and drive post-incident technical corrective actions in collaboration with the Architect.
- Provide coaching and feedback to squad developers, fostering growth and skill development.
- Design and lead the technical interview loop for backend developer hires and recommend candidates.
- Identify skill gaps early and collaborate with management on team development plans.
- Apply and enforce security protocols, ensuring data handling and input paths are secure.
- Flag security risks during PR reviews to uphold secure code practices.
Description
At NOQ Group, we build the financial operating system for live events, connecting vendors, organizers, and audiences through our intelligent platform. Our team consists of 20 in-house engineers in the UK and a larger offshore squad in India, focused on accountability and strategic direction. The Lead Backend Engineer position is a permanent role based in London, requiring a commitment to in-office work for the first six months. We offer benefits such as a company pension, employee stock ownership plan, and flexible working hours, with competitive salaries ranging from £80,000 to £100,000 per year.
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