Job Description
Octopart is revolutionizing electronics procurement and component sourcing. As part of Altium and the Renesas Group, we connect procurement professionals, supply chain managers, and sourcing teams with the world's most comprehensive electronic component database. With over 95 million parts from thousands of manufacturers and hundreds of distributors, Octopart serves more than 41 million engineers, supply chain professionals, and sourcing specialists worldwide.
- Market leading technology: the most accurate and comprehensive electronic parts search engine with 2.1 million visitors per month
- Unparalleled reach: serving procurement teams at over companies worldwide, from startups to Fortune 500 manufacturers
- Strong growth trajectory: part of a debt free, financially robust organization with resources to dominate the component sourcing and supply chain intelligence market
Work mode
On site; 5 days a week from our Cambridge office.
Responsibilities
- Work with the team to establish staffing, goals, timelines, and expectations
- Lead and launch new development projects, encouraging team initiated ideas
- Establish open relationships with other managers, teams, leadership, and all groups within Altium to clear a path for progress and keep everyone informed
- Organise and plan projects, workloads, and task assignments
- Provide feedback, mentoring, and professional development support to achieve operational objectives
- Manage relationships with other managers, upper management, other teams, support organisations to support cross functional and departmental teaming, removing obstacles for the team
- Initiate or participate in R&D projects to develop new products or advance existing ones
- Monitor product development progress, make adjustments, and ensure sound engineering principles and adequate research to support the highest possible product quality and performance
- Identify, define, and recommend objectives and scope of technical projects, communicating goals, scope, approach and schedules to technical managers or engineers
- Evaluate final results of research and development projects, preparing and presenting reports outlining outcomes and recommending implementation of desired results
- Recruit, hire, onboard and mentor software engineers; conduct performance reviews and facilitate career development
- Foster collaboration with other teams and stakeholders; communicate project status, risks, and outcomes to senior management
- Lead a team of engineers and manage team execution of product development projects and tasks
Qualifications
- Senior level, able to work independently, think big and generate ideas
- 8+ years in software engineering
- A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Proven leadership and management experience
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills
- Strong software development background - JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js/React, Python, Go
- A natural problem solver with strong leadership skills, able to guide others in successful approaches to problems and maintain a productive, creative problem solving environment
- Work at speed and under pressure, never slowing down for changing business needs, client needs or technologies
- Cooperate naturally with Product Management, Customer Support, DevOps and other stakeholders
- Solve technical and non technical problems and consider decisions collaboratively
Would be a plus
- ECAD/EDA/CAD software or PCB design experience
- UX experience
Benefits
- Private health insurance, including dental coverage
- Pension scheme with company match up to 9 %
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Remote working abroad program
- Professional development support and resources
- Employee referral program
- 28 days holiday plus public holidays and special leave
- Enhanced family and special leave
- Corporate membership rates with national gyms
- Free lunch, snacks and drinks in the office
- Electric car charging stations, free office parking, bicycle and scooter storage
Equal Opportunity
Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.