Development Manager for our agile development teams

Are you up for joining a dynamic company and becoming part of the senior leadership team in the Product Division of Visma e-conomic?

We are looking for an experienced agile development manager to lead and take charge of our development teams. You’ll be leading five teams in our Product unit based in Copenhagen and Timisoara.  

You are passionate about developing software and succeeding as one team. You do this by means of leadership, competency development and talent management/recruiting. You will also be responsible for creating the right environment for team collaboration with self-organizing and self-managing teams.

You know how to build an innovative and agile culture and we imagine that you have thrived and succeeded in delivering high-quality software and services in a hyper-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a group of team leads and developers through supporting, coaching, mentoring and hands-on career development 

• Build high-performing teams by recruiting and developing employees to work optimally together and collaborate across teams

• Engage in the strategy process and implementation hereof

• Serve as an agile coach and advisor to agile teams

• Help to remove impediments identified by your teams

• You’ll participate in our developer guilds and collaborate with our tech leads to improve and evolve our software, as well as influence our deployment pipeline and processes

   

The ideal candidate

• A degree in IT or Computer Science

• Minimum of 5 years experience within software development as a team leader or line manager

• Strong leadership skills, as a coach and motivator

• Experience working with agile methods

• Empathic and thrive by working with people

• A clear sense of priority and a good track record of executing plans

• Great English communication skills, written as well as spoken

How we work

• Small iterations with multiple deployments on a daily basis

• Collaboration through pair programming and knowledge sharing-based reviews

• Test - the full testing pyramid, from unit tests to automated user interface testing

• Scrum and Kanban processes where we find them appropriate - but people over processes.

• Regular retrospectives to ensure both personal and team growth

• An open, honest and fun team atmosphere where we do our best to enjoy each day

• Every other Friday is dedicated to developer growth and innovation with hack days where you choose what to do

   

The technology

• C# 7.0, MS SQL

• REST through .NET Web API

• React 16+, ES6+, Typescript, Prettier, Webpack, Rollup and more

• Variety of microservices written in Node.js, Golang and C#

• We use AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform where we deploy hundredths of VM, several Kubernetes clusters and consume dozens of managed cloud services. 

• Kubernetes and Docker on our platform, and Teamcity, Appveyor and Travis for CI/CD

About us

Visma e-conomic resides on Christianshavn in central Copenhagen and is part of Visma, the largest SaaS company in Europe. You will get to work in an independent company with a really awesome vibe. We build and design a cloud-based accounting product that helps more than 135.000 happy companies run their businesses on a regular basis. We are 240 employees from +25 nationalities and a floor full of awesome developers from different cultures. 

The development department consists of 70+ people, including Product Owners, Test Automation Engineers and UX designers, working with technologies like C#, Node.js, React, MS-SQL, Swift, Kotlin, Kubernetes and Docker.

We serve more than 50 million server requests a day, push to production multiple times daily, love to talk about (and write) code, believe strongly in automation, and are driven by a desire to measure and monitor in order to constantly improve our product.

At Visma e-conomic you can get as many challenges as you want. We have tons of social activities and you get an opportunity to make a difference!

Please apply with CV and motivational letter through this page.

If you have any further questions regarding the vacancy, please feel free to contact hiring manager Lars Engbork, Development Director, at lars.engbork@visma.com