Team Lead Developer - Calculations at PaySpace

Job Purpose

As a Team Lead Developer, you are responsible for overseeing and managing a team of Developers in partnership with the Technical Leads to ensure that both you and the team delivers code in alignment with technical standards and Industry best practices.

Additionally, you will drive the maintenance and development of the various backend calculation services pertaining to legislative compliance, payroll, and HR, with a strong focus on performance optimization, throughput, and accuracy.

Duties and Responsibilities

Work ethic

• Lives the company’s values and service standards.
• Adheres to business processes and systems to meet the company’s quality requirements.
• Takes personal accountability for service excellence.
• Understand their role within the organisation from an information security perspective and commit to protecting the organisation’s security information assets.
• Ensures Cost savings and efficiencies in area of accountability.

Self-development

• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Prepare personal development plans in conjunction with Manager and implement in line with business requirements.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities.

People Management

• Ensure that employees prepare personal development plans, review and implement these plans in line with business requirements.
• Implements performance improvement initiatives.
• Drives the performance process on an annual basis.
• Provides direction, coaching and mentorship to employees to improve performance.
• Ensures effective conflict resolution and responds to any complaints and concerns timeously.
• Ensures teamwork to achieve shared goals.

Develop and maintain Calc application

• Analyse and resolve technical and application problems.
• Use Azure DevOps to manage tasks and application code.
• Design extensible, secure, scalable, and maintainable enterprise level applications
• Write well designed, testable, efficient and secure code by using best software development practices
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain calc applications built on Microsoft technologies.
• Contribute to brainstorming sessions with development team to ensure understanding and clarity of requirements based on functional and technical needs.
• Develop, refine, and optimize applications.
• Provide third-level support to business users as and when required.
• Ensures the deployment of application into staging/testing environment and ensures application is packaged and supported for deployment of releases.
• Participate in code reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products to ensure implementation/alignment to best practice.
• Make use of your strong technical understanding of industry standards to contribute to our product.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics

Requirements

Preferred Qualifications (advantage, but not essential):

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 7 + years working experience in C#
• 7 + years working experience in application or web development.
• 5 + years working experience in MS SQL Server (T-SQL, Stored Procedures, Views etc)
• Clean code (SOLID/DRY/YAGNI) principals

Advantages but not essential:

• Previous managerial experience in similar role
• Redis or similar in and out of memory caching
• Azure
• REST API
• RabbitMQ/Azure Message Bus or similar
• Unit Testing (NUnit)
• Tasks and threads
• Dapper or similar ORM technologies

Competencies:

• Good communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Self-motivated with a desire to learn.
• Innovative problem solver
• Must be able to work as part of a team.
• Be able to work independently as well.
• Work in rapid changing, high delivery environment.