Role Overview:
You will be responsible for leading a cross-functional team of local and remote Software Developers and Test Engineers delivering high quality software in a fast-paced environment.
You will build, inspire and motivate your team to hit aligned objectives, while focusing on high quality software that gives a first-class user experience.
You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of the software, from design and coding to deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. You build it, you run it.
While this is primarily a hands-off role, it is essential you understand modern software engineering and quality assurance best practice enabling you to build a high performing team.
Responsibilities:
People
- Lead and manage a high performing agile team of Software Developers and QA.
- Provide guidance, support, and career development for team members, helping them grow their skills and advance in their careers.
- Conduct performance reviews, set goals, and provide feedback to help team members improve and succeed.
- Recruit new team members and ensure a smooth onboarding process, fostering a positive and productive team culture.
Delivery
- Take accountability for the planning, delivering team's backlog and the overall SDLC.
- Partner with a Product Manager to balance new product development, operational excellence and defects.
- Embrace a team first mindset ensuring individuals focus on working together, sharing knowledge, and support one another ensuring a sustainable pace of delivery.
- Demonstrate continues improvement through metrics and storytelling.
Tech
- Take ownership of the technical direction of the team working with the Architects ensuring we are building for the future but delivering for today.
- Ensure that the engineering efforts are aligned with the broader company objectives and contribute to achieving business goals.
- Participate in or facilitate code reviews and design discussions to maintain high standards of quality and consistency.
Experience and Skills:
Essentials
- Metrics driven approach to delivery.
- Experience of leading agile teams, managing and coaching team members.
- Demonstrable understanding of modern software engineering and quality assurance best practice.
- Flexible communications styles to manage stakeholders from different areas of the business.
- Delivery focused, with the leadership skills to drive the team to succeed.
- Self-motivated, with excellent problem-solving skills and a drive for improvement.
- Mentored and coached team members.
- Passion for keeping up to date with new and emerging technologies and way of working.
- Experience of C#.NET development, either as team member or leader.
OR
- Experience of modern JS frameworks, either as team member or leader.
Desirables
- Experience of building or supporting services on AWS.
- Worked with and supported remote team members.
- Been part of a recruitment panel (either as hiring team manager or participant).