Lead Software Engineer

Who we are:

Welcome to BigChange! We're excited you're considering joining our fast-growing, innovative tech company. Our market leading SaaS platform is the at the forefront of transforming the workforce management industry. We're seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission of delivering exceptional customer experiences that empower our customer’s ongoing success.

As part of our team, you'll work with top industry minds, solve complex problems, tackle a variety of exciting challenges, and help shape the future of our continued growth and success.

Want to be a part of something big, then it’s time to make a big impact at BigChange!

Why are we hiring:

We’ve embarked on the exciting engineering challenge of decoupling our back end into decoupled, well-tested microservices and our front-end into micro front ends. Slicing up this complex system poses interesting design challenges, balancing simplicity and flexibility with performance and scalability.

As Lead Engineer you will act as the role model for your team and be an embodiment of the high standards you champion and implement. You will play a leading role in shaping our transformation and thrive in our autonomous environment. Our leads cultivate a culture of learning, openly share knowledge and expertise and are committed to creating a first-class developer experience for everyone.

If you enjoy thrashing out the best technical solutions, with other like-minded technologists, get a kick out of inspiring others along the way and are looking for a role where you'll have a real voice and influence in our tooling, technical decisions across the domain and our future technical direction, then this is the opportunity for you!

What we are looking for:

• Extensive software development experience, including exposure to C#/.NET.
• Good understanding of Typescript and React
• Strong focus on crafting high quality, well tested solutions.
• Excellent understanding of agile principles and experience leading agile teams
• Experience using and building REST APIs
• Good understanding of non-functional considerations such as security, performance and scalability.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining microservices systems.
• Experience in people leadership, including giving developmental feedback.
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-hosted pipelines and systems beneficial, especially in AWS.
• Experience with relational and document databases beneficial.

Your Career with BigChange:

Our customers are at the heart of our business and are what makes BigChange the success we are. this role provides you with the opportunity to make a direct impact on the success of BigChange and drive the growth of our customers.

We embody our BigChange leadership principles and values, these shape our ways of working, our company culture and will guide your career development with us.

• Flexible working.
• 27 days annual leave (Rising to 30 days with service) plus 8 bank holidays.
• An additional 4 gifted BigRecharge days, allocated once a quarter where we all take a paid day off to focus on our wellbeing.
• Gym or zwift membership contributions.
• Income protection and DIS.
• Health care cash plan.

BigChange is an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate, champion, and embrace our differences and strongly support diversity and inclusion in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and will make any reasonable adjustments or changes to our existing process to fully support your application and ensure you’re set up for success.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to shape a meaningful career, with the freedom to make a genuine positive impact within a talented team where your voice is heard and your involvement matters. Apply to BigChange today.