Javascript Development Team Lead

Job Description

What are we all aboutAt Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. Its this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. Were passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. Thats why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. Role-specific:An exciting role within the Education division leading a team working on one of our core SaaS products. You will be accountable for delivery against the roadmap, both from a technical and quality perspective, in this team of this team of 6-7. You will contribute to hands-on coding and engineering processes within the team, whilst ensuring the team delivers projects, maintains technical and quality standards and is motivated and engaged. Quality and usability should be a first-class consideration, baked into the engineering process.The product is SaaS, multi-tenanted application and a good understanding of the technology stack is required - NodeJS, MySQL, ReactJS, Ember, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Docker & AWS PaaS and IaaS services.Knowledge would also be desirable in the following ColdFusion (CFML), Java, C++ or C.Strong understanding of modern cloud software architectural principles.Great ability to engage people and work with colleagues inside and outside the team to achieve required goals, remove obstacles and mitigate bottlenecks.Key characteristics for this role: enthusiastic, solutions-focussed, pro-active, loves a challenge, pride in your codebase and product, and the quality of your output, and adaptable.Day-to-day:Work with the team to design and develop software solutions to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of languages and technologies. Ensures dev standards are established, known and followed within the team.Own, manage and be accountable for specific projects and deliverables, managing risks and dependencies with autonomy.Implement a transformation to Agile delivery practises.Leading a team by hands-on example, driving technical excellence throughout the developmentprocess, and taking accountability for the deliverables of the development teamProvide technical leadership, guidance and direction to other members of the development teamManage source control (Git) efficiently and effectively, ensuring isolation and ability to manage multiple branches.Actively promote a quality focussed approach within the team, showing ownership for QA activities and collaboration with the QA team. Prepared to test your own work and that of others to ensure quality.About you:You can motivate and lead teams, driving career development and high performance, and supporting them to up-skill to achieve their potential.You are collaborative and pragmatic. You can communicate with,advise and guide all stakeholders in various departments at various levels, making recommendations based on risk,commercial factors, technical approach and strategic objectives. You demonstrate self-awarenessand ability to adapt message according to audience toachieve positiveresults.You write clean, self-documenting code that is well structured, well-named, simple and easy to read. You stay up to date withlatesttechnology.You actively promote and show ownership of Quality-centred activities.You can co-ordinate, plan and manage Dev sprint/release activities. You take responsibility for theentire project, can identify risks early, understand the overall project picture and make decisions/recommendations in order toachieve successful delivery ofdeliverablesautonomously.You can design source control structures, select or modify toolchain and deployment processes for efficient operation of the team, and are aware of design patterns in the technologies you work in.Drives and implements change within the team to achieve development and business objectives.You demonstrate role model behaviours, remain optimistic and committed in the face of challenges and can adapt and flex with changing priorities. As a well-rounded Development Team Lead, your skills and experiences likely include:Demonstrate experience working on several projects and technologies, have experience building and designing a CI/CD solution and integrating solutions through creating and consuming APIs. Proven abilities organising a development team(s) for success, building team relationships and guiding the approach.Technologies & Tools:HTML, CSS, JavaScript JavaScript frameworks (React with Redux, Ember) NodeJSDockerMySQLRelational database design, Query Optimisation, Indexing etcWriting performant SQL, Stored Procedures and FunctionsAWS PaaS & IaaS servicesGit-based Source ControlJiraAPM Frameworks e.g. NewRelic / AppDynamicsDesirable Experience:ColdFusion (CFML), Java, C++ or CCSS pre-processors (Less, Sass, etc)TypeScriptAutomated Testing Frameworks & Tools Automated Build (CI) and DeploymentsOAuth2What does Access offer youWe are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get: A Competitive SalaryGiving Back/Charity daysQuarterly Socials6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service)The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain