Lead Software Engineer

LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER (Hong Kong or Nepal office)

THE ROLE

Are you a change agent? Would you like to revolutionise an industry that is hungry to move to digitisation and collaboration? If so, let’s talk. You will be working with a motivated team of engineers in to help build the next wave of digital infrastructure in the legal industry. You will drive technical specification, design and development of our microservice architecture for our market-leading applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide day-to-day leadership and hands-on work in detailed design, development, documentation, and unit testing of components of the Zegal service
• Work with other team members to integrate software into working releases for test and eventual production deployment.
• Ongoing maintenance of components throughout the software lifecycle.
• Direction and mentoring of junior members of the team assigned to assist in development of relevant components.
• Work with the Project Manager and Chief Technology Officer to plan the work programme for individual releases.
• Support DevOps staff in building and deployment of components to various environments, as well as supporting operations in testing and production as needed from time to time.

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills

• Experience with NodeJS and key frameworks such as RESTify and Express.
• Experience with Go, and key frameworks and libraries such as Beego and Gorilla
• Knowledge of SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (Mongo) databases
• Familiarity with packaging, deployment, and operational issues with container technologies, especially Docker.
• Exposure to other development and runtime environments, especially Ruby, Python, and JVM.
• Experience with version control and continuous integration tools and development of build process pipelines.
• Working knowledge of UNIX programming, including shell, POSIX APIs, sockets, and process control, including use of relevant APIs to script operations.

Experience

• 4+ years of programming experience.
• Experience as a team lead.
• Languages
• English a must
• Education
• University degree or equivalent professional apprenticeship

Compensation

Compensation will be very competitive with market, including base salary, and benefits (e.g., stock options, additional leave, and training in our Hong Kong office).