Head of Software Development (f/m/d)

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Lead and empower the team leads of our development teams, promote agile ways of working, optimize processes and actively contribute to continuous improvement to drive our team and product development forward!

Your future Role

• In this position, you are the interface between CTO/CPO (Chief Technology Officer/Chief Product Officer) and the team leads of our development teams.
• Lead the team leads of our development teams (frontend, backend, apps, integrations), among other things through regular one-on-one meetings and feedback discussions. You will bring in-depth technical knowledge that will enable you to support the teams both professionally and personally.
• As the central point of contact for the team leads, you help to overcome challenges and conflicts and thus contribute to a productive and motivated working environment.
• Support the teams in the further development of agile tools and methods by initiating and actively promoting ideas to increase the efficiency and quality of software development. You will contribute your knowledge of agile methods such as Scrum, Kanban and other scalable frameworks to further establish agile working.
• Maintain an overview of your teams\‘ OKRs and always keep an eye on the product and company strategy.
• In regular exchange with the team leads, you identify bottlenecks in the achievement of goals, take care of process improvements and thus advance the development teams.
• Promote collaboration between the dev teams and ensure that technical synergies are used to achieve optimal results.
• In this role, you will also report laterally to our Head of HR to actively drive the personnel development of your teams.

Your Skills

• You have at least 5 years of experience in leading technical (IT, software development or similar) teams and have in-depth knowledge of agile methods.
• You have experience in software development, ideally in the areas of backend and frontend development and software architecture, in order to understand the technical requirements of the teams and be able to provide targeted support.
• Knowledge of our dev stack, especially PHP, MySQL and React, is an advantage.
• You have extensive experience and a keen interest in agile methods (such as Kanban, Scrum, lean management, change management, agile scaling methods, etc.). – It is not expected that you have in-depth knowledge of all methods, but at least some experience with one or two of them).
• Open and clear communication is one of your strengths and you have the ability to build a sustainable, trusting working relationship.
• High quality standards are a matter of course for you. You are passionate about consistently improving processes to make them more effective and efficient.
• You have a solution-oriented way of thinking and are able to keep a clear head even in stressful situations.
• Experience in personnel development, systemic coaching or agile coaching would be a “nice to have”.
• Very good written and spoken German and English skills are required.

Our Stack

• PHP (Symfony), MySQL, Redis – backend REST API development
• Swift, Objective-C and Java – native iOS and Android development
• Codeception, Jest, Selenium – automated testing
• Debian – deployed operating system
• Ansible – software provisioning and configuration management
• Gitlab, Docker – Continuous Integration and Deployment
• PHP, Python, Bash, Go – scripting and automation
• Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK stack), Prometheus – Monitoring

We use git, JIRA, Slack and Google Workspace.

• Fully support the relocation process & work permit.
• Modern office in the city center of Graz, incl. rooftop terrace with a view of the Schlossberg, climbing wall, table tennis, darts, putting green, etc.
• Flexible working time models (e.g. 4-day week).
• Remote working possibility (2 days a week).
• € 4.– food vouchers for each day in the office.
• Daily fresh organic fruit, coffee & tea.
• 2 x per month free business brunch in the office with free finger food and organic juices.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• Multicultural team with a great team spirit.
• Latest hardware is selectable between PC and Mac.
• € 300.– health budget per person and year for your physical fitness, e.g., Chair Shiatsu, fitness courses in the office, special equipment to promote employee health.
• Initiatives for mental health (online and F2F counseling).
• Changing rooms and shower facilities for those who would like to spend their break doing some sports, e.g. go for a run at the \“Murradweg\“.
• Team events and celebrations of achieved milestones.
• Full support when starting your new position with an individual onboarding plan, incl. a personal buddy.

We welcome applicants of any gender and origin to become part of the success story of our highly motivated team.

For this role, we provide a minimum gross annual salary of € 62.790,- (ST2 Regelstufe) in accordance with our IT collective agreement. This applies to a full-time position of 38.5 hours per week and requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience as a Head of Software Development.

Considerable over-payment is possible for ideal candidates with relevant experience and qualifications.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology, Management, and Engineering
• Industries: Software Development

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