Lepide Software - Head of Development (8-10 yrs)

Head of Development.

About Us :

With Offices in Texas, London and New Delhi, Lepide is a global IT security organization, leading the data-centric audit and protection (DCAP) market with the award-winning Lepide Data Security Platform.

Our mission is to change the way most organizations protect their unstructured data.

By putting data at the centre of their IT security strategy, they can ensure they are tackling data security at the source of the problem.

We help organizations by providing enterprise level insight into data and the surrounding systems, whether on-premises or in the cloud.

Statistically :

We have over 1000 customers across 150 countries globally.

We have unprecedented customer support with 99% customer satisfaction.

We are the fastest growing provider of DCAP in the market today.

Main Roles and Responsibilities :

- Work closely with the Chief Product Officer and other product stakeholders to understand the short term / long term roadmap and oversee the day-to-day planning and implementation of each project.

- To put the product's concept into a format that developers can understand, ensuring they fulfil the product stakeholder's requirements.

- Build the right team structure and creating an effective layer of the leads to drive the project deliverables successfully.

- Lead and guide the team in decision making on SDLC, POC, UX/UI, QA practices etc.

- Working alongside the Head of Delivery Operations to ensure the setting goals for each team member to ensure timely project delivery.

- Providing guidance to the team by setting the coding standards and ensuring they adhere to it.

- Ensuring adherence to software development methodologies and best practices.

- Work with the Head of Delivery Operations in Conducting performance evaluations and career development discussions.

- Identifying training and skill development needs for the team.

- Work closely with the Head of Delivery Operations to develop and scale the team quickly within an ambitious growth strategy.

Experience and Skills Required :

- Already grown and headed up a team of 10 or more developers (preferably in a startup).

- Experience in leading coaching and mentoring a team of developers.

- Extremely focused on code quality and code security.

- Worked previously as a developer with a deep understanding of code logic and design.

- An understanding of SaaS and SaaS architecture (Preferable).

- Worked for a security vendor (Preferable).

- Excellent spoken/written English / communication skills.

- Complete accountability for the product UI / Code.

- Experience in building briefs, plans and high-level architecture.

- Process driven / oriented, confidence in making decisions and raising objections.

- Creative Thinking solution oriented.

- Experience of inheriting an already established production team.

- Experience with Scrum and agile methodologies.

- High level understanding of core technologies such as PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JS, JQuery, Bootstrap, Ajax, Restful API (any framework), .Net Core, ASP.net, ADO.net, Dot Net, webAPI, SQL.

- Ability to communicate efficiently with other departments within the business.

- Must be a team player and work well under pressure.