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Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Salary

30,000 +

Experience

3 + years

Closing Date

2019-04-26 15:00:00

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Senior Head of Engineering

  • About us

    Right Revenue is a Northern Ireland-based software start-up that empowers small and medium hotels to maximise their revenue and market share by analysing their reservations and market conditions; offering insights, analytics and recommendations based on this data. We’re already making waves in the hotel industry with clients in the UK and Ireland and we are just getting started.  We have ambitious plans to grow our product and our team over the next twelve months and we would love you to help us grow.

    About you

    We want the most creative, ambitious and motivated Head of Engineering to join us in creating a truly modern Software-as-a-Service application to serve thousands of properties around the globe, and help small and medium hotels compete in this fierce marketplace.

    Leading a small but growing team we need someone who not only can take the reins and lead a highly motivated team, but is also prepared to ‘get in the trenches’ and build code when needed.

    If you have the skill to lead a team and develop fast, robust software based on RESTful web services and efficient, fault-tolerant data importers and integration tools; - then we want to hear from you.

    About the job

    Our goals are ambitious, our technology is exciting and our customers are demanding. If this sounds like the challenge you enjoy, we’ll reward you with:

    • A great salary - £55,000/£60,000 for the right candidate
    • Career Progression - a chance to grow the role to CTO level as the business and you progress
    • Employee Stock Options for the right candidate - own a slice of the company and reap the rewards of our collective success.
    • Choose your own hardware - Windows, Mac, Linux. Setup your working environment exactly as you want it, with support in choosing the very best.

    Our stack includes: Node, JavaScript, Serverless, Amazon Web Services, PHP7, Laravel 5.3, MySQL & Redis.. We work with great tools like Slack, JIRA, BitBucket and PHPStorm.

    Responsibilities:

    • Work alongside the CEO to deliver excellent quality software to agreed deadlines
    • Elicit, capture and validate user requirements from internal and external stakeholders.
    • Lead the team to architect, design and deliver sound, well-tested software against requirements and acceptance criteria.
    • Create unit tests, functional tests and automations to ensure quality of the delivered product
    • Work with the wider team and external stakeholder to refine and improve the product with your own ideas
    • The opportunity to develop new working practices and internal tools to improve the development process continuously.

    Required Skills & Experience:

    • Minimum of 3 years experience leading an engineering team
    • Excellent communication and organisation skills with natural ability to articulate and defend design decisions.
    • 3 years + professional software development experience
    • NodeJS
    • Amazon Web Services
    • SQL/MySQL/MariaDB - 2 years +
    • PHP
    • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
    • Familiarity with Linux server environments

    Desirable Experience:

    • Laravel
    • Big Data/analytics
    • Hospitality IT systems
    • Docker
    • Micro Services Architecture
    • integrating with third-party systems
    • Agile development workflow
    • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

    We are excited to hear from you!