Software Engineering Team Leader
Description
Do you want to work to make Power for Good?
We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're driven by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.
We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.
RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
Our competitive package offers rewards and benefits including pension schemes, flexible working, and top-down emphasis on better work-life balance. We also offer private healthcare, discounted green travel, 25 days holiday with options to buy/sell days, enhanced family leave and four volunteering days per year so you can make an impact somewhere else.
The Position
- To lead and line manage one of our excellent cross functional teams of circa 6-8 Software Engineers
- To have experience in building design system and FE platforms
- Uphold RES’s values of Passion, accountability, collaboration & excellence
- Build a supportive culture where everyone can be their best (trust, collaboration, autonomy, mastery)
- Work with the team to build sustainable Agile team processes
- Coach and mentor technical staff
- Manage Agile delivery of the team’s backlog
- Facilitate team decision making and guide discussion on architecture and technical approaches to adopt
- Use data and continuous improvement to help the team strive for excellence
- Report to stakeholders on progress through OKRs (Objectives & Key Results)
- Work closely with the Product management and the Product design team who are responsible for what we build
- Coordinate with other Team Leads to assist, share progress and encourage best practice
Key Accountabilities
You have considerable experience as a software developer and leading development teams using modern approaches. You are passionate about technology, Agile software development and building great teams where everyone can be their best. You should be comfortable contributing technically; however, we acknowledge that being a great Team Lead will require significant effort to be focused on leading the team and ensuring delivery of great software rather than coding.
Knowledge
- Software development best practice
- Agile/Lean practices
- Continuous Integration, DevOps & DevSecOps
- Cloud Architecture
- Infrastructure as Code
- Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
- Security
Skills
- C# and .NET
- JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS
- Design principles and patterns
- Cloud Architecture (Azure)
- APIs / Web services
- Python
- Communication & presentation skills
Experience
- Considerable experience as a software developer
- Experience leading development teams using modern approaches.
- Coaching Agile software development teams
- Implementation of industry best practices such as TDD, CI/CD, DevOps & DevSecOps
- Delivering software which is reliable, scalable, secure, maintainable & extensible
- Leading remote teams
Qualifications
- All relevant qualifications considered
At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.
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