Head of Software / Software Engineering Manager

Overview
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Head of Software / Software Engineering Manager / Python / Django
Fantastic opportunity to lead the design, development, and delivery of a scalable and reliable product for a rapidly growing company.

As a Software leader, you'll be the bridge between business goals and technical innovation, translating high-level needs into well-architected systems, guiding a team of talented developers, and ensuring the system scales and adapts seamlessly alongside the company's success.

You will come from a development background but not necessarily need to code, you will be heavily involved in shaping the architecture and understand the issues of scalability and reliability when working with a hardware product.
Role Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include:

Leading, managing and growing the team
Building and architecting a vision for the software architecture that will grow as operations scale
Shaping and designing product requirements into deliverables for the developers
Overseeing the development process and ensuring that best practices are followed
Ensuring products works well in the field, analyze performance, build reports and triage issues
Reviewing code and providing feedback to developers
Set up processes and ways of working for the team in order to be able to maintain systems at scale.
Running hiring, performance reviews, and personal development

Person Specification
You will have the following skills:

Experience in managing and leading software development teams
Strong technical background in Python, backend systems, Django.
Experience with software architecture spanning mobile apps and HW devices.
Experience with Agile development methodologies.
Ability to run remote teams
Excellent people development skills are an absolute must

If you are passionate about the production of high-quality, re-usable code and have the ability to suggest, discuss and develop potential solutions to a variety problems then this is definitely something to consider.


Reward
An opportunity to make a significant impact on a rapidly growing company and to work with and hire a talented team of professionals.

A chance to leverage your expertise in Python, backend systems, IoT, GCP, Django, and mobile applications to drive technical excellence and seamless collaboration.
Next Steps
Apply by contacting Ciaran Ahern, 0131 270 6608 or cahern@fpsg.com
Equal Opportunities
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