Who we are & What we believe

We believe the internet is the great equalizer and enabler. It provides essentially unlimited access to knowledge, education, entertainment, services and commerce. And it’s an incredible tool to publish, create, share and communicate.

We think everyone deserves first-rate internet, and we have gone about creating an internet service that we ourselves want to use.

We believe in the power of curiosity, creativity and imagination. We use technology to realize our creations, to simplify and to enable. In addition, we add in hard work, sheer sweat and will power where that is not quite enough. If the idea is right, “that can’t be done”, or “that’s not how things are done” will not stop us.

Offering the best customer experience is dear to our hearts. Our industry is not very good at this, and we have lots of room to improve. We want to be the best and are looking for a leader that shares our passion.

If that’s you, we’d love to meet and get to know you. Let’s talk about how we can work together to make it happen!

The Role

We’re looking for a Head of Software Development to join our leadership team and help us drive forward our technical function for our next stage of growth. Tasked with helping to grow and develop our tech team, enabling them to play an impactful part in delivering on our strategy and creating a great experience for our customers.

The Head of Software Development will work closely with the Product Managers, Scrum and TPMs to create a tailored agile experience, ensuring the team is as productive as possible. You will also work closely with the CTO and business stakeholders to evolve the wider business roadmap, ensuring the developers are able to achieve delivery of key business milestones.

Areas of Responsibility:

Managing Developers

• Responsible for managing a development squad within Tech.
• Support and mentor developers of all levels ranging from entry to senior.
• Provide solutions to help unblock developers when they require.
• Provide peer reviews for the dev team.
• Help resolve merge conflicts and create release branches for deployments.
• Handle 1:1’s with developers as well as conducting their annual development reviews.
• Identify and create agile workflows that best support the team in achieving their goals.

Development

• Take ownership in architecting the technical solutions implemented within your particular team/squad.
• Demonstrate coding best practices for other developers to learn from.
• Have strong microservices experience.
• Experienced in new generation technologies such as .Net Core, Java Spring Boot, React.js.
• Experienced in working with CI/CD, preferably with knowledge on building new pipelines to help setup faster more iterative release cycles.
• Support QA with automated testing and release approvals.
• Highlight and advise on coding improvements where necessary.
• Ensure unit testing is committed with every PR and make sure no build is pushed that fails unit tests.
• Help identify and fix bugs when they arise.

Team

• Become an integral link between key business stakeholders and the development teams to ensure timelines are met and the business is constantly updated on progress of work.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Scrum roles to improve the agile process, tailoring the methodology to best work with each developer.
• Work with the product owners to plan sprints and developer capacity plans.
• Provide feedback to Head of Development on milestone progress and individual developers’ personal development.
• Work with QA on supporting automated testing.
• Work closely with People and Culture to grow the development team.

Competencies and Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Enthusiastic and self-confident.
• Analytical with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Adaptable, willing to take on new challenges and driven to continually improve.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent planning and organisational skills.

What We Offer?

• Be part of a team that is changing all the rules of the game and creating an original business model and infratsrurcture in our generation’s most important technological development: the internet
• We are not afraid to question existing ways of doing things, and value creativity and freedom all as we move with the blistering speed of echnological change
• Empowerment, mastery and learning. Join a company where you are entrusted with significant responsibility, where you will be part of our team forging a new path, discovering new ways of achieving things. Continuous learning opportunities to develop your mastery.
• Be yourself, join a team of unique hard working and fun loving team mates who believe in sharing and are always up for fun and taking a break together as well.