Software Development Team Leader

Working as part of an Agile development team operating within the Scrum framework you will be involved across the Software Development Lifecycle ensuring that our products are delivered to a published roadmap within planned release cycles. You will contribute towards the defining and developing a Sprint backlog to achieve the goals set out by our Product team, whilst providing our Test team with continuous delivery to ensure that our applications achieve our definition of done and can be potential released within our continuous deployment cycle every Sprint.

You'll be actively encouraged to push the boundaries of new technology to ensure that we choose the most appropriate solutions for delivering our software to enable you to progress to meet your own potential, whilst also giving more junior members of the development team the support they need to help them to fulfill their personal goals.

Key responsibilities include:

- To lead and manage a team of senior software developers and software developers
- Perform appraisals, monitor performance and identify training needs for the team
- Implementing new features across the products using .NET Technologies
- Working closely with our Principle Developers to build well architected solutions
- Working with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Design Engineers, Development Engineers (Front End), Test Engineers, and Infrastructure Engineers to ensure features are delivered to a high standard
- Providing unit tests to support and validate for any development work undertaken
- Contributing to the Development Team's working practices and technology decisions.Mentoring and coaching other members of your team to help grow their skillsets

To be considered, you must have:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar technical discipline; or equivalent demonstrable experience
- At least 5 years' experience of developing rich web applications using .NET Technologies, C# and JavaScript.
- Expert-level C#, including experience with the latest .NET Framework
- A proven ability to deliver technical features within an enterprise application
- Knowledge of key architecture patterns and design patterns
- Experience using Source Control, preferably Git
- Experience of working in an Agile development team
- An understanding of build processes, continuous integration and delivery
- Experience in writing unit tests

What's in it for you?

While we take our work and deliverables seriously, we have a relaxed working environment complete with in-house table tennis, dart board, weekly five-a-side football, and regular nights out and nights in.

We want our people to be rewarded for their hard work so we offer benefits such as Life Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Contributory Pension Scheme and 32 days' holiday including statutory holidays. It is important that our people get to celebrate their birthday so we allow all employees to have their birthday off.