Senior Software Engineer I at Alianza, Inc. – London, London, City of

A Senior Software Engineer is an experienced engineer who has achieved mastery of the software engineering process and is the company expert on one or more sizeable product components. They have a deep understanding of the telecoms domain. They own and deliver complex projects, through all stages of the software development lifecycle, independently and with a high level of productivity. They deliver impact predominantly through individual contribution but also leverage and contribute to the work of others.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver complexone-personprojects end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, working from loose briefs
• Contributes to larger team-scoped projects through some combination of producing high-level designs, large/complex test strategies, or debugging all-but the most challenging field bugs in unfamiliar code
• Mentor engineers and contribute to their professional growth
• Drive technical excellence through code reviews, best practices, and quality standards
• Investigate and introducenew technologiesand methodologies to improve team capabilities
• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Participate in hiring and help build strong engineering teams
• Resolve complex technical challenges and serve as escalation point for critical issues

Competencies & Attributes

• Technical Depth-Maintaindetailed understanding of key components and technologies in your domain
• Proactive Learning- Fill knowledge gaps through independent investigation–can adapt to different languages,devicesand operating systems
• Collaboration to elevate others- supporting and mentoring teammates and building relationships with neighboring teams for effective information sharing
• Reliable Ownership– across your projects,componentsand processes, you are trusted to exercise judgement, meet commitments and to spot and drive resolution of issues
• Informed Advocacy– understand the customer need, businesscaseand wider context so that you can advocate for the right outcomes in areas such as security,qualityand ongoing maintenance

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• A degree from a reputable University (preferably STEM) or equivalent years of experience
• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, covering the full software development lifecycle,in telecoms or a similarlycomplex domain with high availability requirements
• Mastery of advanced programming concepts such as low-level resource optimizations and high-level design patterns, across multiple languages
• Expertisein software technologies including Linux, IP networking, databases,open-sourcesoftwareand cloud computing platforms
• Experience in more than one specialist domain, examples: real-time collaboration application development, real-time multimedia communications application development, instant messaging and presence application development, SIP application development
• Mastery of code management in Git and/or SVN, including advanced branching
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills