Team Lead Developer - Integrations at PaySpace

Job Purpose

Responsible for the management of the development team and ensuring development best practices are implemented. General coding, innovative design and unit testing of the various elements that make up the PaySpace application. Serves as an integral member of a close knit Agile team. Works with the team to understand and resolve software problems and responds to suggestions for software modifications or enhancements.

Duties and Responsibilities

Ensures customer excellence

• Adheres to business processes and systems to meet the company’s quality requirements
• Takes personal accountability for service excellence.
• Adheres to the companies work standards.
• 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.
• Ensures teamwork to achieve shared goals.

Teamwork

Develop and maintain Web application

• Use Azure DevOps to manage tasks and application code
• Review analyse and provide costs for requirements
• Design extensible, secure, scalable, and maintainable enterprise level applications
• Write well designed, testable, efficient and secure code by using best software development practices
• Create and maintain and API framework and API integrations to other 3rd party systems by following the standards in terms of layout and design of the PaySpace application using latest technologies as discussed and agreed upon with architecture team and technical management team.
• Self-manage and lead team on API integration projects with clients, including owning the relationship with the client through the SDLC for the integration project.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain applications built on Microsoft technologies.
• Drive brainstorming sessions with development team to ensure understanding and clarity of requirements based on functional and technical needs
• Ensure the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between 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.

Review application integration frameworks in line with best practice

• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards using real sample data sets before checking in the code
• Participate in code reviews of solution designs and related code.

Ensure development best practice

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
• Analyse and resolve technical and application problems.
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
• Ensure high-quality/ best practice development principles are in place while delivering solutions on-time and on budget.
• Research and evaluate a variety of software products to ensure implementation/alignment to best practice.
• Ensure own work and direct report work items are rolled out on time
• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Requirements

Preferred qualifications (advantage, but not essential):

• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

Experience

• 5 or more years’ experience in a similar management role
• Agile development methodologies including Kanban

Technology

• Solid understanding of:
• ​HTML – Hypertext mark-up language
• CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
• C#
• Microsoft SQL
• LINQ
• EF – Entity Framework
• MVC – Model view controller
• AJAX
• JavaScript
• Azure DevOps or something similar​

5 years or more working experience with:

• GIT
• C#
• Entity Framework
• SQL
• Azure DevOps/TFS/Jira or similar
• Some experience with .NET core

Advantageous but NOT essential

• Redis or similar in and out of memory caching
• Hangfire
• Azure
• NoSQL
• REST API
• Microservices
• VB .Net
• RabbitMQ/Azure Message Bus or similar Service Bus