Team Lead Fullstack Engineer

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life’s other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms and automation.  For more information, please visit solera.com.

The Role

You will be leading a tiger-team that targets products within the business where development velocity needs boosting or platforms need re-architecting. This will be done primarily through simplification, technology uplift, automation and leveraging advanced AI tooling. 

What You’ll Do

• Your tiger-team will work alongside the existing development teams, before handing over the new development practices to them. The target technology stack is generally C#, SQL Server and React, but the legacy technology could be anything.
• Secondary roles include upskilling the development teams you work with and contributing to the definition of our next-gen AI SDLC process.   
• Develop/Redevelop enterprise solutions for Solera’s portfolio of products, primarily in C#.
• Utilise the evolving range of AI tooling to accelerate development
• Upskill and handover to the existing product team members, the new codebase/solution

What You’ll Bring

You are a highly experienced senior software engineer with 10+ years in a senior role used to leading a team of senior engineers, happy to design and deliver projects end-to-end; solo or in a team environment. You will be used to significant autonomy and responsibility to deliver results.

Essential skills are:

• Extensive Full stack C#/TSQL/React hands-on development experience.
• Self-starting problem solver who easy to work with
• Ability to quickly upskill in new technologies and understand complex enterprise environments
• Excellent communication skills, allowing you to integrate with existing product teams and brief stakeholders.
• Positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity
• Practical experience utilising latest AI technologies to accelerate development. (GitHub Copilot preferred)
• Ability to rapidly develop and ship tested code
• Solid experience writing automated integration tests, ideally BDD style. 

Desirable skills:

• Familiarity with writing enterprise Java applications
• Implementing AI solutions in the enterprise.
• Process automation
• Experience with DevOps pipelines, particularly GitHib actions and Jenkins

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position.  Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time.  Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive.   The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description.  The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.

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