DescriptionAbout Signal Ocean:
Signal Ocean is the technology arm of the Signal Group. Our primary product The Signal Ocean Platform helps shipping and commodities professionals navigate their complex decision making. Driven by advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence our technology suite provides tailored exclusive insights that support our clients in achieving performance and efficiency. By securely handling and combining private and public shipping data flows and applying advanced analytics insights are delivered over web and mobile applications as well as through a rich set of APIs and SDKs. Our backend architecture is abstracted to modularly offer deep analytics capabilities that are leveraged in the solutions that we offer or can be directly embedded in our clients system topologies.
About the role:
We are looking for a Software Development Lead to take ownership of one of our product teams within the Signal Ocean SaaS web application. This team focuses on building scalable reusable components and data-driven features enabling users to visualize complex shipping information via charts graphs tables maps and more.
A key upcoming focus is the Next-Gen Vessel List which integrates multiple data sources and connects with our new Supply Trend capabilities.
Technology Stack:
We build cloud solutions using C# .NET Core React Kebernetes Python MongoDB MSSQL Server Snowflake DuckDB Redis Docker Grafana Influx and more. We also offer the opportunity to work on state-of-the-art architectures and technology stacks as well as a global Artificial Intelligence-powered technology product vision. We organize our teams using the concepts of Dual-track Agile (Scrum) methodologies and we would love to onboard people who are going to contribute across product discovery delivery optimization QA DevOps and Continuous Integration.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Management
- Prioritise work for junior engineers and coach senior engineers when needed;
- Support team growth in areas like coding best practices architecture and SDLC;
- Set clear expectations and help create career growth plans;
- Manage performance and provide regular feedback;
- Support onboarding for new team members.
Delivery
- Ensure monitoring and understand logging aspects of team owned features;
- Lead the delivery of roadmap features stepping in to unblock the team when needed;
- Drive feature discovery resulting in the analysis and estimation of the work needed.
- Present multiple solutions with clearly outlined trade-offs.
- Keep stakeholders updated on the progress and status of the teams projects;
- Unblock technical work for engineers through simplification or pair programming;
- Assume responsibility for specific features and deliver implementations for the most complex components.
Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Managers to refine and clarify requirements;
- Collaborate effectively with your cross-functional counterparts
- Recognize and celebrate team members contributions;
- Mediate and resolve conflict in an efficient and constructive way;
- Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement activities.
RequirementsWhat you bring to the team:
- Masters or Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related technical field or exceptional practical experience.
- At least 2 years of People management experience leading a team of 5-10 direct reports
- 5 years hands on experience in full-stack development
- Strong experience in the React ecosystem; knowledge of Typescript is a plus
- Development experience with Microsoft C# / .NET Core; experience with additional programming languages (e.g.: Python) is welcome.
- Knowledge and an active interest in Design Patterns and SOLID architecture principles
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases (design administration tuning) and with ORM frameworks e.g. Entity Framework Dapper etc.
- Experience with testing and mocking frameworks.
- Familiarity with microservices and REST APIs.
- Comfortable working in Agile environments and adapting to changing priorities.
Nice to have:
- Experience with development of multiplatform mobile apps;
- Experience in building managing and developing on cloud infrastructure (we use Azure);
- Experience in DevOps tasks and tools (e.g. Git GitHub Github Actions Azure management console);
- Experience in project management tools (e.g. JIRA ProductBoard Confluence).
Benefits - Generous compensation with additional performance incentives.
- Coverage under the companys collective health insurance plan.
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced people with deep knowledge in software engineering data science & shipping business who are always eager to mentor.
- Signals hybrid remote work policy currently includes 6 working days at premises per month2-4 weeks of onboarding training to prepare you for your new role having the opportunity to meet about 30 trainers while diving deep into our products and/or the shipping world.
- Career growth opportunities and a structured development discussion every 4 months.
- Personal learning budget for training seminars conferences (750 to 2000 EUR annually depending on seniority).
- Regular team bonding events and activities.
Strict adherence to Confidentiality Intellectual Property and Non-Compete provisions is expected.
All applications will be considered under the terms and conditions of confidentiality in accordance with the regulations of personal data protection.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. At Signal we believe that diversity of opinions approaches and viewpoints is key to our innovation and success and we encourage that with our hiring development and rewards practices. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race color sex religion sexual orientation national origin disability genetic information pregnancy or any other protected characteristics by law and take actions to eliminate those from our workplace.