Development Team Lead

Development Team Lead Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Development Team Lead to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring that the team deliver amazing products that delight customers, efficiently, with high quality;
  • Resource planning and project estimation;
  • Ensure project issues are resolved as quickly as possible;
  • Provide guidance on approaches or alternate solutions within the development team;
  • Ensure that members of the team are working productively;
  • Work within the development governance framework including adherence to Coding Guidelines, UI guides, automated testing, and code reviews;
  • Lead agile ceremonies or weekly (and other) team meetings;
  • Motivate a team of developers to stick to a schedule;
  • Design and develop web-based applications using the appropriate technology.

Requirements:

  • Experience working with a mix of onshore/offshore developers;
  • Experience of developing for the AWS cloud platform;
  • Excellent knowledge of OOP, design patterns and coding best practices;
  • You will be used to working in close collaboration with Product teams and Business stakeholders and building excellent relationships;
  • Senior level software engineering background, ideally in Python or .Net;
  • Sociable, collaborative, proactive, pragmatic and enthusiastic;
  • Collaborate effectively with Architects, DevOps engineers, and Tech management to build and deliver amazing solutions;
  • You will be experienced in following Agile principles;
  • Solid knowledge of Agile, Lean and XP development practices;
  • Ready and willing to speak up and contribute to the overall health of the Octopus Technology organization;
  • You have a strong completion focus but you are also approachable, open to feedback, and supportive as a manager;
  • Strong knowledge of Python and ReactJS;
  • Mentoring/coaching experience.