Engineering Lead

As the Lead Back-end Developer for The Adecco Common Backend team, you will be a central player of an agile team developing the next generation of “Common Backend- Candidate Store”. Candidate Store is a backend product for managing candidate data all Adecco’s global products, that support close to a million users across multiple lines of business and countries. 

With these volumes, all kinds of automation will also come into play, possibly including machine learnings and advanced data analytics. You will organizationally be working in the CTO organization and will be expected to contribute and make a global impact

You will collaborate with the rest of the team comprising of full-stack and back-end engineers, QA engineers, cloud engineers, and product delivery leads. You will have the opportunity to build scalable and maintainable product solutions for Adecco and its customers. You are expected to lead work both systematically and independently, cooperating with colleagues and piers – evaluating progress and deciding on next steps. We further expect you to be creative and result-oriented, and we will give you a high level of personal responsibility and an excellent opportunity to influence the decisions and the results.

Tasks

• Lead the enhancement of Adecco Common Backend currently developed in JavaScript, TypeScript and deployed in Azure

• Work closely with Product Delivery Lead, and support the vision for the team 
• Create detailed technical tasks in Azure Board / JIRA and collaborate with other back end, and full-stack developers 
• Participate in the design and creation of scalable and maintainable software solutions
• Maintain change control over the code base and data schemas and document developed solution
• Lead team to create unit tests, integration tests, and automated tests as part of the implementation 

• Create bi-weekly reports for technical and business stakeholders across the organization
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and take initiative in sharing solutions with the team

Education

You have a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Science, Technology, Data Science, Math or Physics from an accredited university.

Master’s degree Preferred.

Work experience

• 8-10 years of experience in large scale software development
• Proven experience as a Lead Back-end engineer or similar role
• Experience with languages like JS, TypeScript, C++, C#, or similar
• Experience with managing team tasks using Azure Boards / JIRA / Confluence 
• Designing and operating high-performance, secure, multi-tenant cloud services supporting a CI/CD model 
• Experience with a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases 
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Commands and Events is a plus
• Working with general Azure services (App Service, Traffic Manager, API Management etc.) is a plus
• Working in a CI/CD environment including failure testing for distributed systems, graceful degradation, parametric releases and A/B testing is a plus
• Working in config and infra as code environment is a plus

Other requirements

• An interest in development patterns and delivering quality code
• Team first and get it done attitude
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluency in both written and spoken English
• Ability to multi-task and work independently and collaboratively 
• Creative and analytical mindset, and naturally facilitate creative/collaborative problem-solving techniques

Why choose us? 

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally. 

You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident, and insightful.

Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset -that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while the sharing skills, knowledge, and expertise to grow together. 

Make an impact where it matters most.

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary. 

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

As one of the world’s largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain. The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Posting date: 21-08-2022