Engineer (EXPIRED)
Hampton Wick
Engineering
Annual
Permanent
Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe's leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine. We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with a passion for building quality software with automation in mind from the onset across a range of applications central to Sky's Advertising Technology. New and replacements to existing applications to make them Cloud first are being proposed and formulated all the time and you will be involved in their design from the start. You will report into a Senior Engineering Manager. While your day to day is around improving your squad this is also about helping to improve the wider tribe and department
- Lead an energetic and driven squad at the forefront of Advertising Technology
- Provide technical direction and champion good Software Engineering standards across the squad
- Be hands-on, leading by example and contributing approx. 60-70% of your time to coding
- Work closely with stakeholders in an Agile environment to improve the products
- Recommend and drive best practises and tools and share knowledge with the squad
- Line management responsibility for Engineers within your squad. More than that though you will mentor and coach them in a collaborative and supportive manner.
- Experience with agile methodologies, ways of working and practices such as Scrum or the 'Spotify Model'.
- Solid experience of delivering secure, performant applications in a variety of languages (Python, Java, Golang) SQL in a cloud-based environment (GCP/AWS)
- Comfortable breaking down large, undefined problems into smaller solvable ones.
- A commitment to driving excellent Software Engineering standards (TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Clean Code) into the team
- Familiarity with IaC for at least one public cloud provider, preferably GCP
- Enjoy helping to grow individuals in a cross functional team.
- A growth mindset that constantly challenges how we deliver today.
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
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