• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing software engineering team. You are dedicated to team success and sustainable delivery, technical quality, and the overall health and psychological safety of your team.
• Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute to technical design and implementation (~40% hands-on) to support your engineers in applying sound practices and to keep delivery speeds high.
• Product Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate customer needs and strategic objectives into clear, actionable delivery plans that maximise business impact.
• Execution & Support: Collaborate to resolve technical and interpersonal challenges early. Break down complex problems into logical steps, enabling inclusive, pragmatic decisions within the team to maintain progress.
• Community & Culture: Contribute to the wider Tradebyte engineering culture by actively participating in Communities of Practice, sharing post-mortem findings, and fostering knowledge exchange across teams.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• Experienced Leader & Engineer: Proven track record of leading and coaching high-performing software engineering teams, coupled with strong technical expertise in developing enterprise web applications (Java, Kotlin or Python).
• Hands-on Leader Mentality: You are comfortable and willing to stay technically involved (~40% of your time) in design, architecture, or implementation to retain context and support team progress.
• Cloud & Architecture: Solid experience working with AWS or other cloud platforms, with a track record of building and operating resilient, reliable services.
• Pragmatic Decision Maker: Ability to make informed trade-offs balancing business value, effort, and technical debt, while relying on evidence and data rather than assumptions.
• Clear Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. You can translate complex technical topics into simple terms for stakeholders and articulate delivery risks effectively.

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing software engineering team. You are dedicated to team success and sustainable delivery, technical quality, and the overall health and psychological safety of your team.
• Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute to technical design and implementation (~40% hands-on) to support your engineers in applying sound practices and to keep delivery speeds high.
• Product Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate customer needs and strategic objectives into clear, actionable delivery plans that maximise business impact.
• Execution & Support: Collaborate to resolve technical and interpersonal challenges early. Break down complex problems into logical steps, enabling inclusive, pragmatic decisions within the team to maintain progress.
• Community & Culture: Contribute to the wider Tradebyte engineering culture by actively participating in Communities of Practice, sharing post-mortem findings, and fostering knowledge exchange across teams.

WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF

• Experienced Leader & Engineer: Proven track record of leading and coaching high-performing software engineering teams, coupled with strong technical expertise in developing enterprise web applications (Java, Kotlin or Python).
• Hands-on Leader Mentality: You are comfortable and willing to stay technically involved (~40% of your time) in design, architecture, or implementation to retain context and support team progress.
• Cloud & Architecture: Solid experience working with AWS or other cloud platforms, with a track record of building and operating resilient, reliable services.
• Pragmatic Decision Maker: Ability to make informed trade-offs balancing business value, effort, and technical debt, while relying on evidence and data rather than assumptions.
• Clear Communicator: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. You can translate complex technical topics into simple terms for stakeholders and articulate delivery risks effectively.