Aker Systems - Lead Fullstack Engineer

• A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. • Role Overview: As a Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack), you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, documenting, and deploying software for our government client. You will focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability to meet their requirements. Collaboration is key, as you actively participate in elaborating and estimating user stories and work closely with cross-functional feature teams to ensure efficient operations. In addition, you'll be responsible for maintaining and optimizing our Continuous Deployment pipelines and ensuring the operational stability of your team's services. • Design, develop, document and deploy new or enhanced features to front-end and backend services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements • Actively participate in the elaboration and estimation of user stories, promoting effective teamwork. • Lead in building frequent, small releases to maintain the team's development momentum. • Collaborate closely with fellow engineers in cross-functional feature teams, fostering a culture of mutual support. • Oversee the building, optimization, and operation of Continuous Deployment pipelines. • Assume operational responsibility for the services your team owns, ensuring high availability and scalability. • Core Competencies: To be successful in this role, you should have the following qualifications and competencies: • Core Competencies: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. • A minimum of 5 years of experience in a full stack engineer capacity (equivalent qualifications are also acceptable). • Proficiency in JAVA programming, with a strong emphasis on Spring Boot. • Proficiency in one or many of the following: React, Angular, Javascript, Node.js • Fluent in writing JAVA code, demonstrating coding skills. • Experience with platforms like Kafka or similar technologies. • Competency in integrating with backing services such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or S3. • Strong adherence to engineering best practices, including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing, and code reviews. • Experience working in Agile development and/or DevOps teams. • Proficiency in using source control tools such as GitHub/GitLab. • Background in Test-Driven Development, utilizing appropriate tools and frameworks. • Familiarity with Big Data technologies. • Experience with Public Cloud services, particularly AWS. • Aker Systems Attributes • At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion. • In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more. • Equal Opportunities • Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.