Head Of Development (Insurance Tech) at Black Pen Recruitment

About the job

Our Client, based in Cape Town, is seeking to employ a highly skilled Head of Development (Insurance Tech) with a background in the tech sector. As the Head of Development, you will be responsible for developing and executing an execution strategy to meet the company’s goals and objectives and to improve the quality of the service it delivers internally and externally.

This everchanging, collaborative, fast-paced insurance tech company wants to accelerate the build of both the core platform and start researching a few deeply interesting support systems and tools. These will rely on various types of machine intelligence to turn the complicated (and frustrating) chore of purchasing insurance into an effortless task.

Job Type: Full-Time | Remote

Requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in managing Development Teams.
• Architect background or experience highly advantageous.
• Experience working within a start-up space considered a bonus.
• In-depth knowledge of Web Systems Architecture, Design and Development.
•  Hands-on experience with complex project management.
•  Outstanding communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Effective negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Proactive problem solver.
• Proven experience in leading a team.
• Ability to mentor team members.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Demonstrable coding ability - Must be able to show public code repositories.
• Experience using cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS.

Responsibilities

Team leadership, strategy & planning

• Lead and manage a technical team of Developers.
• Technical recruitment, identifying personal development needs, motivating and performance managing the team.
• Drive the strategic outcome of products & services taking into account emerging and legacy technologies.
• Oversee strategy for both product and bespoke code base platform definition and implementation.
•  Devise and execute a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team – to implement improvements to our products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Facilitate the smooth delivery of all projects, enhancements and support delivered by the team.
• Facilitate the technology and methodology decision making throughout the team, including standardisation of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practice, source control and deployment processes.

Software Development

•  Keep up to date with the latest software development technologies and methodologies.
• Drive consistent standards and approaches towards technological advancement, including security.
•  Write clean and healthy structured, well-documented code.
•  Build future-proof reusable core code libraries, which can be shared, in order to drive further efficiencies throughout the team.
•  Deliver code which is well tested and consistently error-free.

Communication and Problem-Solving

• To use your experience when reviewing and auditing code.
• To assist in critical support issues where your experience is required to ascertain the issue quickly and to find the more appropriate resolution.
• To take control of critical support instances and putting into place the correct escalation and process to manage and resolve the issue as soon as possible.
• To encourage pro-active discussions with client delivery and account management teams.
• To contribute regularly to discussions regarding the internal process and system improvements in order to ensure maximum efficiency across the company. Including suggesting technical solutions to problems.
• To instigate cross-team ideas and initiatives – to bring products and services together

Benefits

• Work for an amazing tech startup that is disrupting the industry.
• 18 days of annual leave.
• 100% remote.
• Work with some of the most amazing people doing awesome things!