HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT – JOIN NOW! INNOVATIONS TEAM

HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT

What you will do:

  • Work together with the Product Owner to plan and execute projects
  • Ensure that teams have appropriate product and technical specifications, direction, and resources to deliver products effectively
  • Establish realistic estimates for development timelines
  • Ensure that projects remain on target to meet deadlines
  • Work closely with the Product Owner, Sales, and Business Analysts, to understand the system’s functional and non-functional requirements
  • Collaborate with the Product Management to define the Product Vision
  • Evolve the existing software system applications and architecture
  • Coordinate release and sprint planning and conduct scrum meetings
  • Liaising with QA for product releases
  • Help developers resolve both technical problems as well as human resources issues
  • Monitor individual employees’ performance
  • Coach, motivate and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development
  • Hire and retain development team
  • Promote development team image in Estonian IT community

What we expect:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Minimum of 3 years of management and leadership experience in a software development organisation
  • At least 5 years’ experience working through the design, development, release cycle, and delivering software products to market
  • A record of successful delivery of software applications as an individual, team leader and/or development manager
  • Strong understanding of the software development cycle, especially iterative and agile
  • Strong project management skills
  • Experience with managing the development of SaaS and cloud based applications
  • Relevant experience with web services and REST
  • Understanding of relational databases, especially SQL Server
  • Experience with Scrum methodology and Agile practices
  • A team player who enjoys technical challenges within a fast paced environment

What we offer: 

  • A position in a fast-growing international company
  • A fun and challenging job
  • A competitive salary
  • A great team
  • A brand new MacBook
  • Lots of awesome company parties and events

If you truly found this advertisement interesting, please send us your CV to the e-mail jane@psience.ee.  You are welcome to call +372 56 810 300 (Jane Ilm). We treat each We will treat each application with most respect and confidentiality!