Lead Java Developer in Glasgow

Glasgow Full-Time No home office possible

Your Job:

Strong Java skills
Lead a team of developers who like to ship product and welcome challenging and complex engineering problems in an Agile environment
Instantiate a culture of knowledge sharing and avoid knowledge hoarding
Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
Work with product managers to ensure the teams are delivering an accurate product build and work with project managers to ensure the schedules and controls for the development teams are met
Work with appropriate stakeholder to ensure production issues are resolved quickly
Own your team\’s deliverables and product quality. Ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available, and world class products to our customers
Help your team build relationships across functions with QA, Operations, Support and other teams to ensure Global Relay’s continuing success
Be a hands-on development team manager who will spend up to 50% of their time in design reviews, sprint planning and other Agile artefacts. Some active coding is a requirement for this role.
Appreciate and advocate for information security and secure coding practices

About You:

An BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent relevant experience
8 years of development experience, shipping enterprise grade software, using multiple frameworks and languages with a particular focus on Java
2+ years of experience as a hands-on development team manager
Demonstrated track record leading geographically dispersed teams
Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it
Strong communication and consensus building skills
Skills in language, framework, and toolset agnostic
Prior exposure to external audits
Experience with full stack SaaS development
Experience with advanced web applications
Experience with API development in service and resource-oriented architectures
Experience with large complex databases and data quality and lifecycle issues
Experience with mobile applications a plus

Company Benefits

Interview Process

Contact Detail:

Global Relay Recruiting Team

Location: Glasgow