Development Team Lead

Company: Claims Solutions
Job type: Full-time

Job Description
As a Team Lead, you will play a vital role in guiding a team of software developers, ensuring the quality of software produced is consistently high. You will work closely with your Engineering Manager along with project, product, and QA teams to refine processes, address challenges, and boost efficiency. Your role includes collaborating with product management and UX teams to share feedback and ensure development aligns with the company's objectives.
Your responsibilities encompass not only the overall performance of your team but also your own individual contributions as a developer and programmer. You will be expected to identify areas for improvement within the team and yourself, setting and achieving realistic goals, and tracking performance through appropriate metrics. Balancing your duties as a manager and an active member of the development team is a key aspect of your role.
In cases of underperformance, your role as a coach becomes crucial. You will provide guidance to enhance both individual and team performance. Tough decisions might be required if performance issues persist, including addressing employment status after thorough documentation and review.
Your role is integral to ensuring that project deadlines are met and the software developed meets high quality standards. The ideal candidate for this position would be someone with substantial experience in software development and the capability to effectively lead and contribute to the team. Strong technical skills should be matched with soft skills such as communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution. Familiarity with agile methodologies, along with the ability to work well under pressure and meet challenging deadlines, is also essential.
Team Leadership and Management: Lead a team of software developers, ensuring high-quality software production and fostering team morale. This includes team building, training, and managing overall team performance.
Performance Management and Improvement: Oversee individual and team performance, identify and address performance gaps, provide coaching to underperforming members, and make informed decisions on employment status based on performance evaluations.
Hands-On Software Development: Actively contribute to coding and development tasks. Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and programming techniques to lead by example and provide technical guidance to the team.
Project and Deadline Management: Accountable for meeting project deadlines and delivering high-quality software products. This involves goal-setting, tracking progress, and ensuring adherence to set objectives and deadlines.
Collaboration and Coordination: Work closely with project, product, QA, and QA UI Automation managers to optimize team processes and get work done. Collaborate with UX and product teams for feedback and direction, and coordinate with other teams and engineering leadership on code changes, architectural decisions, and product releases.
Code Management and Reviews: Manage the code architecture and quality standards for the product(s), including reviewing and approving pull requests, resolving build issues, and being the ultimate decider in code reviews.
Technical Planning and Execution: Handle technical card planning, breakdown, architecture, and estimation. Provide level of effort (LOE) estimates and work with the project manager to determine achievable goals within time frames. Track and advocate for addressing technical debt.
Process Improvement: Work with the project managers, QA leadership, and product management on process enforcement, improvement, and execution. Address technical and process concerns and help remove technical impediments for the team.
Resource and Tool Management: Collaborate with engineering leadership to set up and maintain tools, software, servers, and other resources needed by the team. Manage device inventory and hardware requests.
Documentation and Knowledge Management: Maintain the team’s documentation pages with up-to-date and useful information.
Cross-Team and Departmental Coordination: Coordinate with engineering leadership and other departments to align functionalities and decrease meeting overhead.
Customer and Client Interaction: Effectively interact with customers, clients, and other employees, providing feedback for product enhancements and applying root cause analysis to improve processes.
Continuous Integration and Release Management: Set up and maintain Continuous Integration tools and processes. Manage the building and release of Release Candidates (RCs).
Participation in Agile Processes: Engage in agile ceremonies including planning meetings, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, and other relevant meetings.
Hire Top Performers: Filter and conduct interviews with potential candidates. Ultimately recruit developers who will enhance the team's performance and contribute to its success.

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