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Lead, Software Development (Java)

London
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Posted 2 days ago

OverviewFor over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual. We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it’s flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home. To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.

Your roleAs a Lead at Global Relay, you will be overseeing developers in a small, highly focused team employing leading edge technologies to build pioneering products that are used by tens of thousands of users globally to solve real-world business communication and messaging problems. At Global Relay we are continuously pushing the boundaries of application development, and you as the Lead will be in one of the driving seats.

Your responsibilities

Strong Java skills

Lead a team of developers who like to ship product and welcome challenging and complex engineering problems in an Agile environment

Instantiate a culture of knowledge sharing and avoid knowledge hoarding

Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members

Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members

Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes

Work with product managers to ensure the teams are delivering an accurate product build and work with project managers to ensure the schedules and controls for the development teams are met

Work with appropriate stakeholders to ensure production issues are resolved quickly

Own your team''s deliverables and product quality. Ensure we continue to ship scalable, highly-available, and world class products to our customers

Help your team build relationships across functions with QA, Operations, Support and other teams to ensure Global Relay’s continuing success

Be a hands-on development team manager who will spend up to 50% of their time in design reviews, sprint planning and other Agile artefacts. Some active coding is a requirement for this role.

Appreciate and advocate for information security and secure coding practices

Qualifications

An BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent relevant experience

8 years of development experience, shipping enterprise grade software, using multiple frameworks and languages with a particular focus on Java

2+ years of experience as a hands-on development team manager

Demonstrated track record leading geographically dispersed teams

Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it

Strong communication and consensus building skills

Skills in language, framework, and toolset agnostic

Prior exposure to external audits

Experience with full stack SaaS development

Experience with advanced web applications

Experience with API development in service and resource-oriented architectures

Experience with large complex databases and data quality and lifecycle issues

Experience with mobile applications is a plus

What you can expectAt Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.

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