Head of Software Development

Description

This is an office-based role that requires close, daily collaboration with the Director of Engineering and the team.

Working closely with the Director of Engineering, you will define the technical strategy, oversee execution, and own many aspects of the planning, requirements clarification, development and quality assurance specifically for software systems.

Lead the Innovation: Software Delivery and Quality at the Forefront of EV Charging

• Architectural Decision Making: Drive and make architectural decisions for all software systems (cloud, mobile, and API/communication layers) in combination with the Director of Engineering.
• Individual Contributor: Act as a senior individual contributor on key software development projects, balancing leadership duties with hands-on coding.
• Release Management: Own the deployment process and schedule, ensuring stable delivery of features and fixes.
• Software Requirements & Planning: Translate high-level objectives into technical workstreams, defining project plans and work breakdowns for team members.
• Mentoring & Standards: Define and enforce coding standards and best practices, providing technical and professional mentoring to team members to facilitate their growth.
• Project Management: Own the software development workflow, defining and tracking tasks using JIRA and maintaining technical documentation within Confluence.
• Code Quality & Review: Be responsible for reviewing Pull Requests (PRs) and performing final technical sign-off for releasing features/fixes into production environments.
• Quality Assurance Oversight: Define the testing strategy for software releases, ensuring robust functional and integration testing is executed. This includes managing test cases and results (e.g., in TestRail) and setting standards for API testing (Postman).
• Infrastructure Oversight: Own the deployment and operational stability of our cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP.

Requirements

We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Head of Software Development to lead our software development team. This pivotal role acts as the primary leader for software delivery and quality assurance, ensuring the architectural integrity, reliable execution, and functionality of our entire software ecosystem (cloud, mobile apps, and digital systems).

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a leadership or senior role overseeing team output and architecture.
• Planning & Tracking: Mandatory experience with JIRA for task management and Confluence for documentation.
• Technology & Frameworks: Typescript, Node.js, PHP (Laravel and Nova), Express.js / Next.js, React, React Native, Python, SQL, Postgres, Redis.
• A background in hardware-software integration for IoT products.
• Qualifications: Degree or post-graduate level education in the field of Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline
• Technical Depth: Expert proficiency in the technologies listed in Section III.
• Certifications in cloud infrastructure architecture, project management or testing frameworks
• Delivery Ownership: Proven track record of owning the end-to-end delivery of complex software products, from requirements refinement to production deployment.
• Experience in a high-growth sector
• Soft Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and motivate a small, high-performing technical team.
• Tools & Processes: Expert in Git workflows, version control, and utilizing tools like Postman for API testing.
• Experience with EV charging products and protocols
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with AWS (ECS, IoT Core, Redshift, Lambda, CodeBuild, CloudWatch, SNS, Cognito) and GCP (BigQuery, Firebase, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub) infrastructure and deployment management.

Benefits

Benefits • 20 Days annual leave • Company Pension • Salary Sacrifice Electric Car Scheme • Employee discount • On-site parking • Company events

Pay - £70,000-£90,000

Hybrid, remote working or relocation will not be considered.

Training + Development

Interview process

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Security clearance