RecruitMalta are currently recruiting for a Head of Software Development to join a leading name in the ecommerce sector with an excellent reputation in its field of expertise. They are a forward thinking Company and seek employees who have the same drive and motivation in their chosen career. Their desire to retain their market leading position means that all aspects of their business model are managed with a view to being the best and providing an outstanding working environment for their staff in all their locations.

What is the plan for the Head of Software Development role?

The Software Engineering department is responsible for delivering all software products within the group. As a key role reporting to the CTO, the Head of Software Development is responsible for managing and coordinating resources and processes to deliver software solutions.

What will you do as a Head of Software Development?

To provide technical leadership, direction and mentoring for multi-disciplined software focused teams.

To perform line management duties, including: recruitment, reviews, 1-1 meetings, motivating and performance management.

To liaise with Architecture to align with the technology strategy.

To liaise with QA for product releases.

To coach, performance manage and promote knowledge sharing.

To plan for team growth examining the blend of skills required.

What do you know that makes you a great Head of Software Development?

Experience of leading a team of developers. Average team size between 15-30 Developers

Strong people and management skills to interact with colleagues, cross-functional teams and external entities. Experience in Agile methods including SCRUM and TDD.

Experience in application architecture, making pragmatic buy vs. build and interface decisions.

Technical knowledge of web technologies and services.

Understanding of relational databases, especially Microsoft SQL Server and ORM technologies.

Knowledge of web technologies with .NET (C#) / .NET Core, MVC, HTML5, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, REST, AMQP.

Deep understanding of GIT Flow.

Experience with IIS, Redis, RabbitMQ, TeamCity is helpful.

Experience with JIRA is helpful.

Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise grade software.

Salary €50k - €70k based on experience with bonus and an excellent package.