IT Software Team Manager - Development

Position

IT Software Development Team Manager

Job Objective

• JiBe is a cloud based fully integrated ERP system for the shipping industry. Our goal is to allow shipping companies to improve productivity, efficiency and safety levels, while reducing costs.
• JiBe ERP enables increased automation and streamlining of processes, creating pre-defined workflows and reducing the usage of email and paper.
• JiBe is looking for a top-notch engineer to join our team. You will have an opportunity to directly impact our growing team.

Job Responsibilities

• Become a team manager for 6 team members addressing their personal and professional needs as well as participate and lead design efforts related to the solution alongside tech leads and architects.
• Recruit and build a self-organizing agile team as well as implement career development and personal growth plans and enhance the team members technical proficiency level and soft skills.
• Manage and drive execution as well as manage the development lifecycle and the day-to-day activities of the team. Assume complete ownership over the teams products, their quality as well as the production environment and operational requirements.
• Drive improvements to the team development methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Invest 50% of your time in managing and growing the team and the other 50% in hands-on coding and performing code reviews as part of the teams daily activities.
• Collaborate with other engineering managers, product, support, and other colleagues to evolve, maintain, and operate your product.
• Verify and maintain a high level of development, quality and delivery standards for your team as defined by the organizations policies.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years software development experience
• A minimum of 4 years development and code-level design experience with Node.js (is a must), Java or C#
• At least 2 years working with relational databases
• Managed teams for at least 3 consecutive years with a minimum of 5 team members
• Practical experience with development quality methodologies and testing
• Practical familiarity with OOP, design patterns and SOLID principles
• Excellent interpersonal, planning, time management and organizational skills
• Substantial experience and ability for prioritizing, planning, driving, and managing execution plans
• Exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Proactive, independent, mature, self-driven and works well with minimal supervision as part of a diverse team
• Proficiency in verbal and written English communication.
• Willingness to gradually become full stack while still maintaining a focus on backend development.

Advantageous Qualifications

A person cannot be an expert on everything, but if you have experience with one or more of the following, it can be an advantage for you and your team:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience working with NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and its services.
• Comfortable working with Windows and Linux as production environments.
• Experience with agile methodologies.
• Practical experience with one or more of the following: performance analysis and optimizations, application security, data streaming and additional cloud platforms.
• Experience collaborating with international technical managers and colleagues.