Software Engineering Team Lead

Summary

Join Ophelos, a leading AI-native collections platform company, as a Lead Software Engineer (Growth). You will lead a small team of four, contributing significantly as an individual contributor to various growth projects crucial for expansion into 17 European markets. The role involves leading product roadmap delivery, designing and implementing software, aligning technical solutions with business goals, managing the team's backlog, mentoring team members, and innovating to improve societal impact. Ophelos offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and a collaborative work environment. The ideal candidate possesses strong backend development experience, proven team management skills, and excellent problem-solving abilities. Experience scaling products across different geographies is a plus.

Requirements

• Experience with Backend language (ideally using a framework)
• Proven experience in managing technical teams and owning the delivery of a squad roadmap
• Strong problem-solving skills to identify and address issues, blockers, and delays, with the ability to effectively communicate these to senior management
• Pragmatic, business driven approach to developing technical solutions
• Appreciation of clean architecture and design patterns and understanding of the benefits of test-driven code

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the product roadmap through organising the set up and orchestration of the squad’s technical roadmap and resourcing
• Design, implement and deliver software such as ingestion pipelines, API and a greenfield internal operations application
• Align technical solutions with business goals that enable us to meet our goals
• Prioritise and organise the team’s backlog; this refers to managing bugs, maintaining features and technical debt
• Mentor other members of the team to ensure technical excellence and continuously raise the bar when it comes to engineering standards
• Innovate by sharing your ideas with the team and build products that make an incredibly impactful difference to society and people’s lives

Preferred Qualifications

Experience scaling a product over different geographies

Benefits

• Private healthcare through Vitality
• ��500 L&D budget
• ��200 Working from home allowance
• Cashback on costs of the dentist, opticians and more
• 25 days holiday
• Flexible Public Holidays (decide when to take time off)
• 20 days Work From Abroad allowance
• Free access to counselling sessions through our EAP
• Flexible Working arrangement - work from home or from the office
• Cycle to work scheme
• Company pension