The Company
MyHome is Ireland's most trusted digital property marketplace, connecting buyers, sellers, renters, and agents nationwide. Founded in 2001 and part of the Irish Times Group.
The Role
The role will involve guiding, leading and mentoring the MyHome.ie development team in building new products and maintaining the current feature set within the MyHome.ie ecosystem. Working closely with and reporting to the Head of Software Engineering, the candidate is responsible for ensuring the smooth and timely delivery of software projects while ensuring what is deployed is performant, stable and developed to a high standard. The candidate would be expected to take a very hands-on approach and consider themselves as a part development resource, working closely with the Frontend team to ensure a collaborative approach across functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage:
Leading and managing a team consisting of back-end developers
Manage/facilitate the daily stand-ups, leading fortnightly sprint planning workshops, and removing blockers for team members in a timely fashion
Working both on your own initiative and within a dynamic team structure
Communicate effectively with team members, managers, and business users alike
Develop:
Developing code across the full stack to a high standard and leading by example across the team - enforcing coding standards
Working closely with the Head of Software Engineering to architect new solutions that will support the business needs both now and into the future
Learning innovative technologies and adapting to changing design frameworks and principles
Deliver:
Delivering software fixes, features and projects to a high standard and in a timely manner
Splitting out complex projects into deliverable tasks and accurately estimating and sizing projects to facilitate a smooth delivery
Supporting short release cycles, continuous deployment, and DevOps processes
Project management - working closely with all key stakeholders to ensure projects are running on time, risks are communicated early, and scope creep is managed effectively.
Skills \& Experience
5+ years software development experience
Previous experience leading \& managing software development teams
Strong interpersonal skills, and excellent verbal and written communication abilities
Experience developing C# .NET within a microservices architecture
Experience with SQL
Experience delivering software that has been unit and integration tested
Experience with performance tuning applications
Experience working in an Agile development environment
Experience with large scale, high traffic volume websites
Experience of mentoring staff and conducting code reviews
Experience using cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
Elastic search and Redis experience are a plus
Myhome.ie is part of The Irish Times Group. We have a hybrid working policy.
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