People Leader - Software Development

at  Gallagher Group

ABOUT GALLAGHER

Gallagher is a rapidly growing technology company and global market leader, focused on protecting what matters most to customers around the world. Our technology protects some of the world’s highest security environments and agriculture businesses in 160 countries, which makes us New Zealand’s leading privately owned global tech exporter.
Every day we push the boundaries of what’s possible in prisons and palaces, universities, technology parks, government buildings and global businesses who are themselves developing leading products that are changing the world.

THE FIT

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about knowledge-sharing and is keen to mentor a great team. You’ll have at least three years’ experience in commercial development and be comfortable working with multiple programming languages and platforms. To succeed in this role you’ll also have:

• A relevant tertiary qualification.
• Experience leading or mentoring a team of developers.
• Experience with either Cloud apps and Microservice development (C#, .Net, and Entity Framework) or Native Mobile Development (Swift, Java, Kotlin)
• Experience in SQL Server development.
• Experience with developing and supporting REST APIs.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions
• Ability to rapidly context switch between different languages and platforms
• Proficient in use of common development environments/IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio, XCode).
• Proficient in use of version control tools and process.
• Proficient in use of debugging tools relevant to the product. The experience and ability to track down problems in products using these tools.
• Proficient at designing and documenting features or modules that are a part of a product or project.
• Has been an active contributor to a successful project in a collaborative team environment.

It’s not a dealbreaker, but ideally you’ll also have:

• Experience with C++.
• Familiar with AWS and Docker
• Familiar with asynchronous and multi-threaded applications.
• Demonstrated experience with unit test frameworks and usage of unit tests to improve the quality of software.
• Experience writing automated tests for Mobile or Cloud apps.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced People Lead to inspire and motivate a team of developers to consistently produce exceptional work on our award-winning security products and features. Your mission as a People Lead is to make sure your team grow in their responsibilities, capabilities, and contribution to their value stream and in the wider organisation. Your team is responsible for:

• Developing dual native mobile applications using Java, Kotlin, and Swift.
• Creating and managing .NET cloud applications and microservices using C#.
• Implementing automated testing using Ruby.
• Collaborating on the maintenance of and improvements of a legacy monolithic server project utilizing C# and C++.
• Managing and maintaining ownership of mobile applications and SDK

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about knowledge-sharing and is keen to mentor a great team. You’ll have at least three years’ experience in commercial development and be comfortable working with multiple programming languages and platforms. To succeed in this role you’ll also have:

• A relevant tertiary qualification.
• Experience leading or mentoring a team of developers.
• Experience with either Cloud apps and Microservice development (C#, .Net, and Entity Framework) or Native Mobile Development (Swift, Java, Kotlin)
• Experience in SQL Server development.
• Experience with developing and supporting REST APIs.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solutions
• Ability to rapidly context switch between different languages and platforms
• Proficient in use of common development environments/IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio, XCode).
• Proficient in use of version control tools and process.
• Proficient in use of debugging tools relevant to the product. The experience and ability to track down problems in products using these tools.
• Proficient at designing and documenting features or modules that are a part of a product or project.
• Has been an active contributor to a successful project in a collaborative team environment