Software Team Lead at Cambridge Cognition

What you’ll do

Leading a self-organising Agile team

• Ensure the team consistently and predictably deliver against business requirements following agreed Agile methodologies
• Coaching the team to optimise its performance, fostering a trusting and safe environment with a focus on continuous improvement and efficiency
• Pre-empt and manage cross-team coordination and ensure the team maintains contact with stakeholders
• Develop a thorough understanding of the product domain and customer needs
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies for planning, stand-ups, retrospective, and review
• Develop and maintain a profile of the team’s skills, sharing identified training needs with the Software Manager who ensures these needs are met
• Coach the team in Agile development practices and the tools we use to implement them
• Promote Agile values, principles, and practices within the organisation
• Support the Technical Product Manager, Product Owners, and other Agile teams in refining the product backlog, with appropriate involvement of the team
• Support the Software Manager in the recruitment of new team members

Hands-on software development and testing responsibilities

• Creating, enhancing, and maintaining web applications using React, NodeJS and other modern technologies, frameworks, and tools
• Developing and maintaining game-like computerised cognitive tests
• Designing innovative solutions and assisting with platform architectural decisions
• Writing, reviewing, and maintaining software specifications
• As required, providing 2nd line technical support, and managing such allocation within the team

Line-managing team-members

• Carry out appraisal process for team members
• Work with team members to create an Individual Development Plan

What we’d love from you

• Hands-on experience in a software development or testing role within an Agile development team. Thorough knowledge of software development process including Agile methods.
• Project management experience, ideally for software development projects.
• Experience leading a software development team.
• Passion for Agile software development in the mobile sector for healthcare applications.
• Optimism, energy, and can-do attitude.
• Strong written and verbal business communication skills.
• Good people management skills.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to autonomously manage, prioritise and take responsibility for own workload and that of others.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with a clear, accurate and concise written style. Flexibility and a talent for keeping work well organised.
• Strong commercial experience in web application / SaaS software development and testing, ideally in a technology stack utilising JS/TS, React and NodeJS.
• Thorough understanding of good software development principles and practices.
• Understanding of risk management and software security.
• Devotion to continuous improvement of their own technical skills and effective at knowledge sharing and mentoring team members