Director of Software Engineering

Title: Director of Software Engineering

Location: London, Hybrid

Salary: Competitive

Industry: Retail

Contact: [email protected]

Brief Overview:

Forsyth Barnes are working in partnership with a well-established retail organisation based in the London, as Director Software Engineering you’ll lead, manage, mentor, and build extremely talented software engineering teams to deliver game changing technologies. As a candidate for this role, you’re able to seamlessly switch from diving deep into technology with engineers to driving high-level, strategic discussions.

Director of Software Engineering - Responsibilities:

• Building a strong team - Provide guidance and mentorship to managers and individual contributors on the team. Invest in building and mentoring a strong team
• Work with product managers to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios - Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, and scalability of your solutions
• Work across to improve the velocity of your and other teams
• Lead efforts to deploy new and existing applications into AWS environments
• Break existing monolithic applications into micro service architectures and build new microservices

Director of Software Engineering - Requirements:

• Highly technical hands-on and an effective people leader
• 7 years of experience in software development
• Extensive experience building services using back end technologies (Java, Spring, Hibernate)
• 5 years of experience in people management
• 5+ years of experience in Agile practices
• Experience working within a consumer-facing environment