Job Description

Posted 3 weeks ago

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER / LONDON – HYBRID / UP TO £90,000 / GREAT BENEFITS
Exciting new opportunity for an experienced Software Development Manager to join a dynamic, growing organisation.
As the Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for managing a team while designing and creating new applications that fit with our team standards to execute and deliver projects efficiently and on time.
The Gateway is a mission critical, payment processing solution built by a small, agile team. It is Java based and becoming cloud-native by implementing key features as micro services. The Gateway team is pushing the frontiers of payments technology and is in the process of operationalizing and scaling the product.
Our team works hard, covers for one another, and maintains work-life balance. We own our results and we take pride in ownership of everything we do.
We need help! Changing the world isn’t easy, and we have a lot of work ahead of us. From new product features, to automation, to supporting micro services, there are a lot of opportunities for us to grow, and we’re looking for great people to come along for the ride.
What’s on offer?
* Highly competitive salary between £70,000 – £90,000 (dependent on experience)
* Annual company bonus
* Hybrid working (2 days per week in the London office)
* Industry leading pension scheme
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays – with the opportunity to purchase additional holidays
* Life assurance & Income protection
* Discounts & perks platform
* Employee wellbeing
How you'll make an impact:
The Software Development Manager will play an important role in the design and analysis of software projects with a high level of technical experience. For this role, we need someone excited about solving problems and being able to juggle multiple items in a day, taking joy in being very efficient in driving items through a pipeline process. Primary responsibilities are to solve current reported problems and find opportunities to resolve those with long term solutions. Other responsibilities may include planning, design, development and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.
Our goal is that about 50% of your responsibility is to provide technical leadership, direction, guidance, and support for the members of your team and about 50% of the role will be development. Other responsibilities include:
* Manage a small team of highly motivated developers and Systems Analysts
* Be in position to quickly and effectively resolve customer reported issues; taking ownership of the support process and collaborating with others on best solutions, effectively being a positive force for other teams by allowing focused development to continue.
* Become product domain expert and develop techniques to help team members gain expertise
* Contribute to the development and maintenance of the application architecture and ensures all development conforms to defined standards
* Analyze, design, program, debug and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or internet related computer programs
* Support technological aspects of a software development project so that the end product meets business & technology requirements and is delivered on-time and on-budget
Culturally, you're
* A highly motivated manager and engineer who loves working on small, high performing teams.
* Someone who cares deeply for team results, checks your ego at the door and takes pride in owning results.
* A mentor who is capable at guiding the technical development of less experienced developers at the functional, component architectural levels
Technically, you
* Are comfortable working on front-end web code, back end services, data stores, and infrastructure systems
* Have experience writing modern software deployed in the cloud
* Are comfortable with encryption schemes, modern APIs, and front-end frameworks
* Have worked on agile teams to deliver software iteratively
Experience you'll bring:
* BS in an engineering field OR can make us feel intensely confident that you don’t need one.
* 4+ years of experience managing team members
* 4+ years of experience with Java
* 2+ years of experience with cloud solutions – Azure, Google, Amazon
* 4+ years experience working on agile teams to deliver software iteratively
* Experience with designing and architecting applications
* Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery
* Excellent overall knowledge of Enterprise Level technologies
* Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills
What’s Next?
If you have the necessary skills and are keen to join a leading business then please APPLY TODAY for immediate consideration