Development Manager


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Red Gate Software Ltd

Listed on

21st February 2017

Location

CB4 0WZ

Salary/Rate

Excellent

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Redgate is looking to recruit a Development Manager to lead multiple teams creating products for Microsoft data professionals.

As a Development Manager, your mission is to create high-performing teams who incrementally deliver great products to our customers. You’ll manage a group of Technical Leads who each lead a development team, supporting them in driving their teams forward to deliver products our customers love. As a line manager, you’ll be responsible for the performance, pastoral care and career development of those you manage.

You’ll be responsible for the delivery of the products that your teams own and the progress they make against their objectives. You’ll work with the Technical Leads to apply lean practices to help prioritise, scope work and incrementally deliver valuable software to our customers. You’ll own broader programs of work, coordinating activities that are dependent on other teams and working together with other areas of our business to help the teams understand how to align with Redgate’s wider goals.

You’ll support teams in adopting the right practices for the job at hand. You’ll have experience of a wide set of tools, from agile/lean techniques through to coding practices such as test-driven development, refactoring or even mob-programming. You’ll recognise the times you need to bring in deep expertise, and you’ll be able to call on support from a team of coaches. You’ll have the underlying aim of growing the experience and confidence of the teams you lead, so they are better prepared next time.

You’ll have held a technical role in recent history and have the battle-scars to prove it. You’re an experienced people manager, perhaps even having managed managers in the past. You’ve got the experience to know what works, what doesn’t, and be able to mentor/coach Technical Leads appropriately. You’ll recognise the warning signs that signal when you should get more involved, and you’ll know when to step back and give the team the freedom to make progress their way.

Development at Redgate

The majority of our code is written in C# using Visual Studio and ReSharper. We use GitHub to version our code and have a strong culture of peer code review. Many teams use NCrunch for automatically running unit tests as they type. We use TeamCity for continuous integration and have an automated LED dashboard to provide visual feedback on any failures. We’re relentlessly trying to get faster feedback loops, and we invest heavily in faster automated tests.

We use opensource heavily and encourage contribution back to the community. We believe in transparency, and we display product information publicly, including build status, test status, performance, sales and customer usage information.

We have a healthy internal culture around learning and development with lightning talks, communities of practice, invited speakers and of course Down Tools Week.

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