What we are looking for in our Software Development Team Lead:
Significant experience as a software engineer, with time spent writing and maintaining production code
Proven experience leading or mentoring developers in a delivery environment
Comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership
Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices (e.g. version control, testing, CI/CD, cloud-hosted services)
Experience working in agile, product-centred teams
Responsibilities:
The Role
We work in a culture where people are trusted to use their expertise, encouraged to grow, and supported to try new things. Collaboration is at the heart of how we operate - our architects, business analysts, UX designers, product and delivery managers work together to solve real problems for real users.
This is a brand-new senior engineering leadership role within Technology & Digital. You'll play a key part in shaping our software development capability, continually improving digital tools that thousands of volunteers rely on every day.
As our Software Development Team Lead, the key responsibilities are:
Build and lead a software development team, including back-end and/or full-stack engineers
Provide day-to-day technical leadership, coaching and line management
Remain hands-on in software development, code reviews, and technical problem-solving
Lead the design, build, integration and operation of volunteer-facing digital platforms
Own engineering quality: code standards, testing, CI/CD, security, performance and reliability
Work closely with Architecture, Product and Delivery to make pragmatic technical decisions
Technologies:
CI/CD
Cloud
Security
UX UI Design
Backend
Fullstack
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Benefits:
We are an award-winning Charity of the Year (Charity Times Awards 2022) with over 400 employees across multiple locations across the country. 28 days holiday and going up to 32 days after 2 years' service plus additional days at Christmas Flexible working hours Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department Double matching pension up to 10% of gross salary
