Job Description :

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of platforms, products, and services across the company, with a focus on improving outcomes for users and meeting the needs of the Foundation’s strategic objectives


• Ensure the team is shipping high-quality software with measurable impact


• Analyse requirements in close collaboration with our Product Managers in order to promote pragmatic technical solutions


• Work across teams in collaboration with other engineering leaders at the Foundation to improve processes, code quality, and documentation across our projects


• Lead by example by writing efficient, secure, and scalable code, using a test-driven approach


• Prioritise the team’s backlog in order to provide them with meaningful and prioritised work, and help unblock their workflow when they encounter obstacles


• Line-manage, coach, and mentor Software Engineers within the team


• Be proactive about finding ways to improve release processes, resilience, and stability




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• Significant experience of high-level languages such as JavaScript, Ruby, or Python


• Empathy, a pragmatic attitude, and the ability to see the bigger picture


• The ability to communicate effectively with highly technically skilled stakeholders


• Experience of successfully leading teams to deliver products and services from concept through to production


• The ability to identify team members’ working styles and help them succeed


• Excellent knowledge of networking, HTTP and APIs, relational databases, debugging, testing, and design patterns


• The skills to balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity


• The ability to ensure the team has a situational awareness of each other’s work




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• Experience of working with Products Designers and User Experience Researchers


• Experience of Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or React


• An interest in education, especially around computer science, physical computing, and digital making