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Software Development Lead

Signal Group

London

Hybrid

GBP 75,000 - 120,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

An innovative technology company is seeking a Software Development Lead for their Signal Ocean SaaS application. The role involves overseeing product teams, managing delivery, and leveraging technologies like C# and React to enhance shipping data visualization. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills, along with extensive experience in full-stack development within an Agile environment.

Benefits

Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan.
Personal learning budget for training and seminars.
Structured development discussions every 4 months.
Regular team bonding events and activities.

Qualifications

  • At least 2 years of people management experience, leading 5-10 direct reports.
  • 5+ years hands-on experience in full-stack development.
  • Strong experience in the React ecosystem and Microsoft C# / .NET Core.

Responsibilities

  • Prioritize work and coach team members.
  • Lead delivery of roadmap features and drive feature discovery.
  • Manage performance, provide feedback, and support onboarding.

Skills

Team Management
Full-stack development
C# / .NET Core
React
Agile methodologies

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

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We are looking for a Software Development Lead to take ownership of one of our product teams within the Signal Ocean SaaS web application. This team focuses on building scalable, reusable components and data-driven features, enabling users to visualize complex shipping information via charts, graphs, tables, maps, and more.

A key upcoming focus is the Next-Gen Vessel List, which integrates multiple data sources and connects with our new Supply Trend capabilities.

We build cloud solutions using C#, .NET Core, React, Kebernetes, Python, MongoDB, MSSQL Server, Snowflake, DuckDB, Redis, Docker, Grafana, Influx and more. We also offer the opportunity to work on state-of-the-art architectures and technology stacks, as well as a global, Artificial Intelligence-powered technology product vision. We organize our teams using the concepts of Dual-track Agile (Scrum) methodologies and we would love to onboard people who are going to contribute across product discovery, delivery, optimization, QA, DevOps and Continuous Integration.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Management

  • Prioritise work for junior engineers and coach senior engineers when needed;
  • Support team growth in areas like coding best practices, architecture and SDLC;
  • Set clear expectations and help create career growth plans;
  • Manage performance and provide regular feedback;
  • Support onboarding for new team members.

Delivery

  • Ensure monitoring and understand logging aspects of team owned features;
  • Lead the delivery of roadmap features, stepping in to unblock the team when needed;
  • Drive feature discovery, resulting in the analysis and estimation of the work needed.
  • Present multiple solutions with clearly outlined trade-offs.
  • Keep stakeholders updated on the progress and status of the team’s projects;
  • Unblock technical work for engineers through simplification or pair programming;
  • Assume responsibility for specific features and deliver implementations for the most complex components.
  • Work closely with Product Managers to refine and clarify requirements;
  • Collaborate effectively with your cross-functional counterparts
  • Recognize and celebrate team members’ contributions;
  • Mediate and resolve conflict in an efficient and constructive way;
  • Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement activities.

Requirements

What you bring to the team:

  • Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science a related technical field or exceptional practical experience.
  • At least 2 years of People management experience, leading a team of 5-10 direct reports
  • 5+ years hands on experience in full-stack development
  • Strong experience in the React ecosystem; knowledge of Typescript is a plus
  • Development experience with Microsoft C# / .NET Core; experience with additional programming languages ( Python) is welcome.
  • Knowledge and an active interest in Design Patterns and SOLID architecture principles
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases (design, administration, tuning) and with ORM frameworks Entity Framework, Dapper, etc.
  • Experience with testing and mocking frameworks.
  • Familiarity with microservices and REST APIs.
  • Comfortable working in Agile environments and adapting to changing priorities.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with development of multiplatform mobile apps;
  • Experience in building, managing and developing on cloud infrastructure (we use Azure);
  • Experience in DevOps tasks and tools (, Git, GitHub, Github Actions, Azure management console);
  • Experience in project management tools ( JIRA, ProductBoard, Confluence).
  • Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
  • Coverage under the company’s collective health insurance plan.
  • Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering, data science & shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
  • Signal’s hybrid remote work policy currently includes 6 working days at premises per month2-4 weeks of onboarding training to prepare you for your new role, having the opportunity to meet about 30 trainers while diving deep into our products and/or the shipping world.
  • Career growth opportunities and a structured development discussion every 4 months.
  • Personal learning budget for training, seminars, conferences (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
  • Regular team bonding events and activities.
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