Lead Engineer – Loqate (3840)

About GBG

Enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere
We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification.

With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone. Regardless of age, location or background, genuine people everywhere should be able to digitally prove who they are and where they live.

About the team and role

Loqate’s Engineering Teams
At Loqate, our mission is to help every business in the world reach every customer in the world and we strive to understand location better than the people that live there. Thousands of big brands and household names use our location capture and verification services as part of their digital commerce and data quality user journeys, performing millions of transactions per day.

Lead Engineer

Loqate is on a mission to build the best engineering team. We are looking for engineers who are excited to be part of our story and help us build a diverse and vibrant tech community. We hire engineers with a broad set of technical skills, who are highly cross-functional, and eager to solve a wide range of engineering challenges.

We have an ambitious target to grow our customer base from ~20,000 to over 100,000. You will help achieve this by leading the technical direction of our SaaS platform, having the ownership to decide where you and your team can best deliver value. There are a wide range of opportunities to flex your technical skills, from modularising some of our monolithic architecture, spearheading greenfield projects or employing growth engineering strategies.  There is no line management responsibility with this role – you will work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other Technical Leads to drive technical excellence within our teams and deliver value for our customers.

What you will do

Take ownership of the technical design, delivery, and documentation of our SaaS platform as we scale to support over 100,000 customers. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture work.
Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence
Mentor and coach othersto help them be the best they can be
Care about agility as much you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releases
Take responsibility for platform health and observability, using our own data to understand user behaviour and drive product development

Skills we’re looking for

Core Skills

A strong foundation in software engineering principles and deep knowledge of a high-level programming language. C# and Go are used heavily across our products
Experience working with distributed cloud systems, using containers and infrastructure as code. We run on Kubernetes in GCP
Strong knowledge of database technologies (e.g. SQL Server, MongoDB)
Previous experience of being the primary technical leader in a team and collaborating with other teams and stakeholders
A passion for promoting engineering excellence in those around you through coaching and guidance
An understanding of different architectural and design patterns, and an appreciation of when to use them
Experience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and practices

Nice to haves:

Understanding of GitOps and experience with tools such as Argo CD
Previous experience in integrating new services and tools, such as Salesforce, Segment, HubSpot, Stripe is beneficial
Experience with SQL and data warehousing/pipelining tools such as BigQuery, Airflow, etc.
Proven experience in navigating and transforming legacy codebases, as well as leading greenfield projects
A polyglot who can identify and use the right tool for the job

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we’re a great place to work, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch. You can also find out more about careers at GBG and check out our current opportunities at gbgplc.com/careers.

Unleash your potential and be part of our mission to power safe and rewarding digital lives.

Inclusion, diversity, and equality are fundamental to our business success at GBG. Our I&D programme, be/yourself, aims to support and promote an inclusive and diverse culture at GBG and encourage individuals to be their authentic selves at work.

Partnerships with organisations that are leading the way in diversity and inclusion, such as the Women in Tech forum, is a part of our commitment to drive real change and ensure we continue to learn, grow, and evolve as a business.