Lead developer

at  Robeco

Department

Team

• Observe and coach individual team members
• Is the member still happy?
• Does the member need technical or non-technical assistance?
• Identify skill set (together with manager and architect). Does it still match with the required skills to develop our applications?
• Steer the team in the right direction to ensure project goals are met
• Liaise between members when there is a technical conflict
• Final verdict in technical decisions
• Propagate technical policies to the team, e.g. DevSecOps practices, system maintenance (Man of the Day)
• Observe sentiment about technical decisions

Position & Requirements

Product

• Safeguard quality of the product
• Coordinate technical impediments, organize escalations if needed
• Observe and act on technical debt
• Identify risks
• Monitor and fine-tune costs (Azure resources, network traffic, storage etc.)

Product Owner support

• Keep PO pro-active informed regarding the status of impediments, incidents or user stories with high importance
• Assist PO in stakeholder meetings and requirement engineering
• Validate if a proposed requirement is technically possible
• Rough estimate of required effort
• Assist PO in translating business requirements to user stories

Communication with other leads and architect

• Share knowledge
• Discuss improvements in our way-of-work
• Discuss improvements/adjustments in our current tech stack
• Discuss how to adopt technical or operational changes within Robeco (e.g. security or compliance adjustments)
• Take an active role in equally dividing cross-team development tasks

All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. An assessment and integrity test may be used in the selection procedure.
Robeco Recruiting Team
About Us
As a Dutch asset manager operating globally, Robeco has always combined the best of both worlds. We have global reach and ambitions, while retaining our head office in our hometown of Rotterdam. Employees at Robeco share that combination: we hire and nurture people who can think internationally and put the client first, while keeping their feet firmly on the ground. We have strong links with academia, which underpin the research in our robust quantitative and sustainability investing strategies. Our people have backgrounds in finance but also in economics and geography. Likewise, as pioneers in emerging markets investing, our diverse backgrounds also add local knowledge. We offer an informal and flexible office atmosphere that gives people the room to be themselves, to grow and to perform to the best of their ability.

Please refer the Job description for details