Software Development Manager

Software Development Manager

Location: HQ is based in Liverpool. This role can be remote.

In a newly formed role, a Development Manager is required to oversee the Engagement Team which is responsible for the development and support of consumer facing technologies. The Engagement Team is a key focus area for our clients future growth plans and this is a great time to join a forward thinking, tech enabled company if you're the sort of Tech Leader that likes to shape things and have a real impact at the company-wide level.

You and your team will be responsible for building amazing technology solutions to leverage our clients partnership with 3rd Party Publishers and their huge user bases; to ultimately bring great outcomes to our automotive clients.

To achieve business objectives, our client wants to build the best, most effective solutions, using the latest technology. You will have experience to hit the ground running and shape the team and exciting new technologies/practices. You'll come from a fast-paced background, with an agile mindset of experimentation at pace.

We have four key areas that the Engagement Team are responsible for:

• 3rd Party Publisher-site interactive technology. We build the interactive web tools for in-market car buyers to use on the publisher's websites.

• Ad-Tech that functions within wider AdTech Platforms.

• 1st Party Websites (including Green.car) that help consumers to find the right car for them, contributing to making car buying effortless.

• Landing Pages and consumer journeys.

Responsibilities and prior experience:

• Leadership of the development sub-teams within the Engagement team. Teams with consist of developers of all levels.

• Leadership and oversight of the development practices, technology choices and architectural patterns employed in our Tech Stacks. Hands on, lead-by-example is still desirable in this role.

• Forming a close partnership with the aligned Product Managers for each of the sub areas within Engagement.

• Experienced in web architecture that can inherently scale effectively from small-scale usage up to larger scale usage (Cloud, micro services, Functions/Lamba, React/Vue.js, .Net etc..).

• Ideally will have a working experience of the Ad-Tech ecosystem, each of the platforms and considerations required for each, the technologies involved and the how to push the boundaries of the limitations across each Ad platform.

• Experienced in Responsive Web, with previous ownership of a brand's UK-wide consumer-facing-website's technology and development practices.

• Support practices within the Engagement Team, for each of the solutions.

• Reporting directly into the CTO, you will contribute to the wider Technology team and company's OKRs.

TLA

Our client is a cutting-edge technology business that has built a diverse range of cutting-edge technologies including our own ad-tech products, blockchain based customer acquisition platform, unique multi-channel contact centre technology and data distribution integration to each of their clients. They focus on bringing together the latest industry trends and technological advances to provide highly innovative products - an exciting place to be with great bespoke technology constantly in production.