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Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Salary

Commensurate with Experience

Experience

5 + years

Closing Date

2017-05-28 23:00:00

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Development Lead

  • At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:
      - Build and enhance our proven security platform
      - Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
      - Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
      - Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

    We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why we’re a leader in next- generation cybersecurity—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

    The Role

    The successful candidate will enhance their skills and experience by working closely with local engineers in Belfast, global Product Management, and staff based in our Silicon Valley headquarters, as part of an Agile team driving rapid growth through high-quality, on-time feature releases that meet and exceed the expectations of our customers.

    Your day-to-day

    - Acting as a Development Lead and mentor for a number of mid-level and junior Developers
    - Hands-on development against a complex platform, based on a wide range of technologies
    - Taking ownership of key areas of a business-critical SaaS product running on Linux
    - Promoting and contributing to, the delivery of high quality, testable software, from requirements analysis through to acceptance testing
    - Responding effectively and accurately to the needs of stakeholders, including Product Management, Support and QA

    What you bring to the team
    - Substantial experience in software development
    - Experience in a team lead or development lead role
    - Expertise in a range of languages, including two or more of:
       - Java (or other JVM based language)
       - PHP
       - Javascript/JQuery
       - Perl
       - C/C++
    - Extensive experience working in a product-focused development environment
    - Ability to switch smoothly between back-end and front-end development
    - A track record for delivering high performance, scalable software
    - Strong problem-solving skills
    - Extensive Linux experience
    - Excellent communication skills

    Desirable:
    - Exposure to SaaS-based product delivery
    - Experience working as part of an agile software development team
    - In depth knowledge of email technology, including MTAs (e.g. Postfix), MX records and SMTP
    - Experience of parsing and/or manipulating MIME messages in any language
    - Exposure to REST/JSON based APIs

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