Lead Software Engineer
Full Job Description
Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our business, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, we are developing solutions in-house that meet customer needs across the whole Supply Chain E2E. Joining Maersk you will join a global leader in Container Logistics as we embark on an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize trade.
You’ll play a vital part in our success, helping us re-think what technology can do by using the latest technologies, and building the experience to advance your career. If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious, culturally diverse team of 3000 People within Maersk Technology – on a great transformation journey – then apply today!
The role of the Lead Software Engineer
As a Lead Software Engineer within our Cloud Backbone team, you will be a key driver and doer in a fundamental shift in how we design and architect our cloud infrastructure.
You will work to lead other engineers on the team to deliver features and enhancements to our systems. Frequently engaging with Platform teams to provide technical guidance on how to best use our systems. Providing best practices to the engineering team and helping to solve the most technical of problems on the platform. Continually drive the team to ensure our systems are always available and free of bugs that inconvenience our end users.
In support of our developer platform, you will build and operate a cloud runtime to support running 12 factor microservices. The cloud environment will be designed to support transitional phases from datacentres and other cloud endpoints. The ideal candidate has a strong foundational skillset in networking, compute, storage, and cloud to bring experience in designing a future runtime for workloads at Maersk. The team will be additionally responsible for running all developer platform components in a highly reliable and scalable architecture.
As a lead engineer, you will demonstrate the following characteristics: -
You have extensive practical experience gained from working as an engineer and typically answer directly to the senior management of your company. Leadership skills and communication skills are crucial in your work.
You are creative and come up with innovative approaches to projects and any issues that arise.
You are a “do’er”. You get things done.
You are able to understand strategic thinking and how to apply it to the work you are doing.
Setting goals and implementing them.
Sharing expertise and insight with other engineers.
Motivating staff and fostering collaboration.
The ideal candidate will have a background that spans development, architecture, and operations. We are looking for developers which can provide expert coverage for delivering highly scalable and reliable applications:
Development - Github, Github Actions, Opensource CI/CD, Cloud CI/CD
Observability – Metrics, Logging, Tracing, Notifications
Datastores - SQL, NOSQL (key-value, document, graph, timeseries), KV
Backend – API, CLI, process orchestration
Domain driven design experience and understand how to create composable microservices and API’s
Event Driven Architecture and Event Sourcing (Kafka)
Open Source – Experience building, deploying and operating open-source technologies
Cloud – experience architecting and automating the configuration of clouds
Key Responsibilities
Architect a runtime capable of supporting future looking aspirations while accounting for legacy, edge, and transitional patterns
Build, maintain and adapt cloud implementation over time due to changing requirements
Work across the organization to ensure runtime meets requirements for many different types of stakeholders (infrastructure teams, application teams, corporate teams)
Be a leader and mentor of other members on the team
Work closely with the core developer platform team ensuring new features are supported by runtime components
Defines and develops POCs for new and upcoming strategic technology solutions.
Defines team wide engineering best practices and mechanisms to measure the adoption.
Drives technical architecture conversations with platform teams.
Be a member of hiring panels
Representing the Maersk team in external technology events and conferences.
Key Skills
Expert of at least two clouds, one of which must be Azure, AWS or Google
Expert in infrastructure components (DNS, CDN, Cloud Networking, Cloud Interconnect, Subscription/VPC Peering, Subnetting)
Expert in infrastructure open-source technologies (Consul, Vault, Temporal, Kubernetes, Envoy, Kuma, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana)
Expert with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Strong experience in programming (Golang, Java)
Strong understanding of microservice based architectures and how to achieve composability
Experience in software development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud-based micro services
Experience understanding systems based on design patterns such as Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Event Driven Architecture
Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic, and a strong desire to write production quality code.
Broad knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, networking, and software development best practices.
Experience of designing systems or components on large projects (£5M)
Experience of working with offshore teams
Experience of Test-Driven Development approaches
Demonstrable high levels of integrity
Proven leadership
Able to work in a matrix and comfortable influence without authority
Agility: Situational Adaptability; People Orientation; Values Differences
Able to handle change and ambiguity
Process understanding
A driven focus on the customer; ensuring feedback loops and relations are maintained to create the best products for our users
Good communicator
Collaboration: Instils Trust; People Orientation: Values Differences, Interpersonal Savvy