Location: Cape Town
Description:
Fantastic opportunity to manage and drive the development team of a well established and growing product. Your proven ability to perform at the highest level and manage a substantial team of engineers would stand you in good stead.
You’d be required to perform the following functions:
Lead and grow the team of developers which cover the following areas;
Back-end (open source)
Front-end
Mobile applications
Hardware system engineering
Business intelligence
This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality solutions in a hyper growth environment where priorities shift fast.
The position demands excellent technical skills and knowledge coupled with strong leadership, planning, and management abilities.
Knowledge and experience with one or more development methodologies, and experience developing engineering process is required.
Requirements
Customer and people focused mindset.
Desire to build, sense of ownership, urgency and drive.
5-10 years experience in software development and 5+ years as a development manager.
BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
Thorough knowledge of what it takes to develop scalable, extensible technology, as well as how to structure and develop organizations.
Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus and demonstrated ability to achieve targets in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating.
Experience with Open source languages, MySQL, Linux/Unix, Perl, XML, C/C++ and Web services, and UNIX tools.
Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities.
Strong presentation and leadership skills
Strong technical vision.
Hires and develops great people
Relentlessly high standards
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Previous demonstrated project management success on similar projects emphasis placed on experience with high-volume web-based applications.
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