Full-Time Software Development Manager
Job Description
On the back of continued business expansion and growing revenue the company is increasing in scale and complexity and now needs a Software Development Manager to join our team and take ownership of development projects and software engineering teams, enhancing our platform and building new products and services.
This is a senior role within the technical organisation and will report to the Director of Software & Services based in Cork with close working relationship with our Architect and Product Owner in Cork, as well as our Asia Pacific team in Malaysia.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading by example and managing development decisions across the full range of Akari Software’s systems and development processes.
They will work hand-in-hand with the software developers, instilling a professional approach and leading decisions.
The candidate must be passionate about web architectures, knowledgeable in best practise for Enterprise Software as a Service in areas such as writing high performance code, security, design for scale and ease of maintenance.
Occasional travel may be required to our Malaysia offices, but this role is based in our Cork office.
Candidates must have the right to work in Ireland.
Responsibilities
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Hands-on management of development teams of 3-6 developers in single or multiple streams for project work, including driving stand-ups, planning, designing and implementing software solutions in our system taking product requirements as input. Teams can include members based in Ireland and/or Malaysia.
Hands-on, day to day software development will be an element of this role but the successful candidate will be engaged in a balance of design, coding and tech team management
Driving teams engaged in ongoing design/definition/implementation/refinement of the technology solutions for Akari’s platform
On an on-going basis assess and optimise what we do against our overriding needs for reliability, robustness, low cost of ownership, performance and security
Support a change agenda on an iterative basis to upgrade/improve our systems
Monitoring best practice, both in the development best practise general and looking at our competitors’ offerings and benchmarking Akari against them
Software developer line management
To mentor product, developer and QA colleagues in best practices
Run and participate in the Agile development methodology including stand-up meetings as needed
Define metrics for software development at Akari that are useful and practical and look at how we can instrument what we do
Assist with the resolution of day to day issues and queries relating to technology issues
Identify the resource needs for the technology function and assist in building out the team
Candidate Profile and Key Skills
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Thorough hands-on experience of designing, developing and implementing world class ecommerce solutions for high volume transactional platforms
Thorough knowledge of tech team management, SDLC (agile) and how to interact with technical and non-technical staff
Strong people management skills – Highly motivated self-starter
Comfortable engaging at a senior management and executive level
Ability to attract, hire, manage and provide on-going motivation to a skilled technology team
Ability to come up to speed quickly on our technology stack
Overriding commitment to delivering excellent quality and communicating it across the organisation
Experience with some/all of our technology stack – CFML, HTML/CSS/JS, node.js, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB
Experience with some/all of our developer and support tools (JIRA, Git/Bitbucket, Confluence, Teamwork.com)
Experience with cloud hosting, continuous integration, test first / test driven development and infrastructure as code
Experience working in an agile development environment with a geographically dispersed development team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong understanding of product life cycle and deliverables
Bachelor’s degree or greater in an appropriate technical discipline
Must be able to work on own initiative, owning the delivery of solutions
Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
Must have excellent attention to detail, be persistent to get things done right, be highly organised and flexible and work well in collaboration with a young team
Ideally we would like someone with 5+ years’ experience working in a senior role with hands on knowledge of the skills outlined above.
Package
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Competitive salary
Health Care
Flexible working
About Akari
Akari Software has gained an international reputation for being a leader in curriculum management processes and software. Working with clients in Ireland, the UK, SE Asia and Australasia, Akari Software has established Curriculum Management as a new category of software for Higher Education that has largely been ignored by the software industry.
It is now accepted that the management of Higher Education cannot be really effective without a full understanding of the curriculum and the ability to use data collected therein for effective analysis, management and integration with other systems.
Akari is a private company, backed by Enterprise Ireland, with offices located in Cork, Ireland and Shah Alam, Malaysia. Akari is transforming the way that Higher Education manages the curriculum throughout its lifecycle.
How to Apply
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