Software Developer Manager

The Role - Software Development Manager

As a Software Development Manager within Profile your primary responsibility is to build and maintain passionate, engaged and effective development teams. You do this through taking a deep interest in the people that report to you by making sure they are happy, motivated and challenged in what they are doing. You devolve decision-making and provide the team with the psychological safety to move fast. You guide them to reach pragmatic technical solutions and keep yourself close to the code without becoming a blocker. You take ownership when things go wrong but celebrate success collectively. In short, you act as a multiplier of your teams effectiveness

specifically, you will:
* Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by finding opportunities for growth, coaching, addressing concerns and if necessary, implementing performance management.
* Grow the capability of Pegasus as a whole by becoming involved in our engineering hiring and being passionate about building high performing and diverse teams.
* Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimize risk within an outcome and help priorities and evolve a workable technical solution ready for delivery.
* Represent Profile within wider technical discussions across different stakeholder groups and be effective in doing so by constantly broadening your understanding of the technology landscape.
* Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes, or work across wider groups in conjunction with programmed management to deliver more significant outcomes. Drive us to constantly improve quality.
* Take ownership of non-functional outcomes within Profile including focus on performance, availability, reliability and security.
* Continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology, processes and practices.
* Participate in the on-call rota to support our systems in production.