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Furthermore, here at FFE we value our employees giving them the freedom to be creative and innovative. Having a great team spirt and people that are proud to work for a company that saves lives, our teams see the direct impact of their efforts in the daily operations.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Hands-on application of your software engineering expertise – lead by example.
- Act as the main/initial point of contact across FFE for software/firmware.
- Lead the planning and refinement of work plans for your team.
- Oversee delivery of planned work from your team and help resolve issues therein.
- Report into the business on Software Team plans and progress & identify opportunities for your team to help others.
- Owner of Software Team line management, mentoring, coaching, development (objectives, skills matrix, training plan & budget), and recruitment.
- Owner of working relationships with third-party suppliers (software developers) - people acting as a logical extension to your team capacity.
- Primary Design Authority for FFE’s software.
- Ensure working practices, procedures, processes for your domain are well documented and adhered to.
- Own the budget, acquisition & management/maintenance of tools & systems related to your team/domain (e.g. GitLab, compilers, debugging equipment).
- Ensure you and your team keep an eye on relevant external trends and opportunities (sister companies, customers, trade shows/associations, technologies, etc.).
Skills & Experience
- Track record of delivering high quality software, especially in a regulated environment.
- Highly experienced in embedded C development for bare-metal microcontroller systems, with a good knowledge of other languages (e.g. Python).
- Expertise in Git for source control (knowledge of GitLab an advantage).
- Understanding of up-to-date industry best practices.
- Able to line manage, lead and coach other team members to improve engineering practices.
- Contribute relevant software engineering knowledge.
- Solid technical authoring ability.
- Confident using modern collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab and MS Teams.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Some experience of Linux server administration is an advantage.
Behaviours
- Lead by example
- Collaborative, empowering, optimistic, and motivational.
- Clear, open, and direct – focus on goals.
- Principled, composed, and emotionally restrained.
- Flexible and considerate of impact of changes.
- Organised and empirical – decisions are data driven.
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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