Development Manager - Core Team
At Glasswall, we are doing things a bit differently. Good different. And we’re not just talking about it; we’re walking the walk. The amount of learning, growth, progression, and positivity that we are experiencing right now makes the team excited and privileged to be here and be a part of our evolution.
We are on the hunt to add exceptional talent to our team - the next generation of talent who will be as excited as we are by modern thinking, ways of working and engineering practices. There’s a lot of cool things happening here coupled with incredible opportunities for learning, contribution, ownership and delivering world-class products that genuinely make handling digital documents safer for all.
A big part of our culture is openness, transparency, and diversity. We are striving to publish more of our work to the broader community and have closer engagement and collaboration with our customers and partners. We aim to find diverse and talented individuals from all walks of life and previous industry experience. Bringing different perceptions to the work we do we believe we do it better. We have recently established an Organisational Health Committee and a Women In Tech group to better support openness, transparency and diversity here at Glasswall. We are constantly improving employee engagement in a hybrid and global working environment.
The talented candidate will have a software engineering background and experience leading, mentoring and managing people. They will be working within our Core Engineering Team and have line management responsibility for a team of skilled engineers and developers., collaborating closely with QA, The Dev Manager will lead and coordinate projects that map to our range of Products, ensuring adherence to modern engineering practices to deliver high quality technology.
This is a management role, reporting directly to the Head of Core Engineering. In addition, the role collaborates very closely with our Product Team and Director of Operations and Delivery. The role is based in the UK and requires UK RTW status. We offer flexible and remote working with occasional team meet ups at our office in London.
Tech Stack: C/C++, C#, Python 3, Qt Framework, .Net, Azure DevOps, Git, Docker
Required Experience
- Proven track record of delivering complex technology projects
- Leading and inspiring high performing technology teams, establishing a culture of collaboration
- Proven experience in training, mentoring, leading technical teams, and effectively managing and communicating career progression and succession plans
- Experience growing teams, driving recruitment, leading interviews with developers, and on boarding new team members
- Experience managing remote teams, and distributed teams
- Proven experience using a range of agile project management methods such as Scrum, Lean and SAFe
Responsibilities
A mix of product development, line management and delivery management
- Line management of architects, engineers, developers
- Recruitment, mentoring and professional development of Core team staff, including their assessment and performance management
- High-level planning of key product features
- Facilitating the development of new products and tooling
- Ensuring the appropriate planning and management of the development resources
- Identify risks and provide mitigation plans
- Escalate issues promptly to senior management
- Work closely with department heads to identify the requirements for new software programs
- Monitor quality and ensure products meet technical and business objectives
- Improving and implementing processes and values that scale effectively
- Champion and represent the core development team
- Assisting the support team with customer related queries
- Collaborate with PM and Development Lead on product delivery and release management
- Review and refine release process to enhance release cadence and delivery of software builds
- Accountable for enforcing the SSDLC (Secure Software Delivery Life Cycle) within the team
Behaviours
- Excellent communication, staff leadership and management skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- High level of initiative, motivation, adaptability, with the ability to seek out solutions to problems
Beneficial Knowledge and Experience
- Azure DevOps experience
- Experience working with systems where security is a primary consideration
We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow, and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organisation.
Salary and Benefits
- Glasswall offers a competitive salary and incentives package.
- Benefits include training and development opportunities, generous holiday, private health care and pension contribution
- We offer flexible and remote working options, with hybrid working from our office in the Greater London area.
Application process
Interested candidates, please visit http://careers.glasswall.com/ to apply.
Reference materials
Glasswall website: www.glasswall.com
Glasswall blogs:
- Blogwall: https://www.glasswall.com/blog/
- Try CDR: https://www.glasswall.com/trycdr/