Development Manager

Summary

We are looking for a passionate Development Manager that can coach and inspire our great employees in our platform development team. You will be the person to make sure that our team is ready for our mission to build the next-generation customer data platform. We use modern Big Data technologies to build a cutting-edge SaaS solution for businesses.

As a Development Manager you are one of APSIS Leaders and are expected to be a role model for APSIS' value base, represent the company and execute on decisions. You have the long-term responsibility for the well-being and development of the team members

Our new APSIS One platform is built from the ground up using brand new cloud-native technology and methods.

APSIS aims to work at the forefront of technology and development. We follow modern agile practices with cross-functional DevOps teams, where each team assumes complete technical and operational ownership of their applications, including not only implementation but full architectural design and tech selection, QA, continuous delivery, and technical production environment operations.  

At APSIS, we imagine a world where nobody gets a single spam message ever again.

Our vision is to help our customers communicate better with their users by allowing them to use their customer data more effectively. To reduce noise through better and more specific targeting; to add relevance by making each message personally tailored; to send the right message on the right channel at the right time and nothing else, so that we as consumers get a better experience in our inboxes.

Work Description

- Lead a team of developers & technical resources. Coach, mentor and inspire the team in realizing their full potential both as individuals and as a team.
- Run day to day development process, resource planning and leading any meetings and rituals called for based on team needs and role; work continuously to optimize this process to continuously improve efficiency and alignment with business goals.
- Manage all impediments and challenges for the team and work continuously to enhance team efficiency and developer quality of life.
- People management & administration for assigned resources: success reviews, salary reviews, recruitment, employee administration (vacation schedules etc.)
- Own and develop team- and system-level KPIs and metrics and drive operational excellence for assigned team. Manage team-internal continuous improvement process.


- Collaborate closely with Product Management and other stakeholders to align team’s goals to overall strategy & tactics.
- Embrace “servant leadership” paradigm, work proactively to support the dev team in all matters needed.


Requirements

- BA/BS in a technical education program or equivalent
- Experience managing development teams or equivalent informal leadership experience. Proven ability to lead and inspire teams of senior developers.


- Ability to understand developer work, ability to understand at conceptual level distributed systems architectures. The role does not require hands-on development, but candidates are expected to have hands-on development experience from similar systems / fields previously in their career.
- Strong sense of responsibility and inclination for taking ownership and proactively working to solve any challenges as they arise.
- Cross-discipline skill set encompassing both technical and leadership competence, and predisposition to embracing both strategic and operational responsibilities
- Demonstrated ability to speak, read and write English at professional level
- Able to participate in the teams rotating on-call schedule (according to the devOps principles)


Bonus points for

- Experience from working as a developer or other technical IT role at more senior level
- Startup experience


- Experience from distributed systems & big data processing
- Experience with AWS (or other public cloud vendor) and “microservice” systems


Position type

Full time

How to apply
Please apply by providing your CV and a personal letter as soon as possible. We will hire as soon as we find the right person.

Do you have questions about this position? Please contact hr@apsis.com

About us
At APSIS, we believe in enabling great marketing for our customers. As the leading provider of marketing solutions in the Nordics, our goal is to enable and simplify the workloads of our many global clients every day. We do this by creating simple yet scalable tools within digital marketing, including data management, targeted emails, lead management and e-commerce recovery. At the end of the day, it all comes down to one thing: our clients’ marketing success is our success. And we’re proud to be there for them, every step of the way. ...Intrigued? Find out more at apsis.com!