Software Development Manager Engineering United Kingdom

Software Development Manager - Competitive Salary and hybrid working available. Once month on site in our Portsmouth office is required.

Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship with this role.

Summary

Lead Forensics is a leading SAAS company with products in the B2B sales and marketing space. We're seeking a Software Development Manager within our engineering department that builds our customer facing products. You will be responsible for the performance and personal development of a section of our engineering department. Although not a directly hands on role you will need to be highly competent in our tech stack our modern tech stack (NestJS/NodeJS, Vue, Redis, SQL Server and Snowflake), able to critique and drive the quality of the code created. This is a role that would suite someone with a strong development background, with expertise in creating clean code following DevOps practices and strong interpersonal skills, who wishes to move through a management career path.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance Management

• Set, monitor, and evaluate performance metrics for engineering teams, ensuring that productivity and quality targets are met.
• Be the ultimate ambassador for and guardian of the standard of the asset being created, ensuring it is optimal for productivity and our long term engineering performance.
• Provide constructive feedback and guidance to team members, helping them overcome performance challenges and achieve their goals.
• Implement and refine performance management processes that promote accountability and transparency across teams.

People Management

• Line management of a section of our engineering department, driving personal development and performance management for line reports.
• Lead and mentor engineering team members, fostering a positive and collaborative environment.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews to support individual career progression, skills development, and job satisfaction.
• Identify training and development needs within the department, facilitating access to learning resources and opportunities and organising or delivering new training solutions.

Recruitment and Retention

• Support recruitment processes by identifying talent needs, participating in interviews, and helping select candidates who align with team culture and values.
• Drive retention initiatives to keep high-performing team members engaged and motivated, supporting employee satisfaction and reducing turnover.

Continuous Improvement

• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement within engineering teams, where team members are motivated to share ideas and improve processes.
• Identify and implement best practices for team productivity and well-being, keeping abreast of industry trends and tools that can enhance team performance.
• Facilitate retrospectives and other reflective activities to gather insights on team performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

Culture and Engagement

• Actively promote and build a generative culture with excellent communication and collaboration within engineering teams.
• Champion and model company values, acting as a role model for team members and fostering a healthy work culture.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience developing with clean code, SOLID principals and design patterns, and building the competency for this in teams.

• Experience of developing effective engineering performance metrics and driving continuous improvement of performance.
• A strong general aptitude for programming and problem solving. You'll need to pick up new tools and techniques quickly and use them to solve problems.
• Significant previous experience as a hands on software engineer working with mature DevOps practises, and to have maintained the skills required to get down into the code when required.
• A strong understanding of what is required to create and operate maintainable systems.
• Experience with automated testing and quality assurance
• An understanding of how to build systems that perform well at scale
• Enthusiasm for building secure systems and implementing security best practices
• Experience of leading engineering teams building complex/distributed systems
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills
• A technical/computer science degree or equivalent professional experience

What we offer in return;

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• Fully remote working
• Be part of a fantastic company culture; we all display our Company DNA's, foster a "One Team" and 'Growth' mentality
• Give back to the wider community with volunteer days, fundraisers, charity events

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