Engineering Team Lead

Tribal’s vision is to empower the world of education, and we make it our mission to provide the software and services which underpin student success.

Tribal’s engineering team supports this mission through the design, development and deployment of reliable, functionally rich and market leading software. The purpose of the Development Team Lead role is to ensure the successful delivery of the Semestry product/solution to clients through the management of your team and monitoring the development workload, additionally you will use your development expertise to ensure quality, timeliness, fitness for purpose and manage risk of the products produced.

Your Key Responsibilities are to:

• Providing guidance and support to other members in the development team
• Managing development schedules and work output
• Meeting and managing development pipelines
• Produce reports to management team including risk logs, deadlines, software quality issues and resource availability.
• Drive quality by ensuring that latest best practice is adopted by the team in areas such as unit testing/code review and impact analysis.

What must you bring to the role?

You will be an experienced Senior Developer looking to take your next step up, or an experienced Development Team Lead looking for a new and exciting challenge. Key areas of expertise include:

• Strong demonstrable experience in back-end technologies such as Java, PHP, Python or similar and frameworks such as Java Spring Boot, Laravel, Django or similar.
• Experience in front-end technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript, especially with frameworks and libraries such as Angular or React/Next.
• Strong people management and decision-making skills
• Ability to track and escalate risks
• Broad experience and knowledge of testing/QA processes
• Ability to analyse requirements and translate those into product specifications and test
• Some experience running a Scrum process would be advantageous

What can Tribal offer me?

This is an unrivalled opportunity to join a team of driven, meticulous, and passionate professionals, who are challenging the status quo of products that are provided globally to institutions that specialize in education, training, and learning. Our software is world class, and we believe we give our teams the tools, environment, and training to be world class too.

Not only will have full access to learning resources to continue to up-skill whilst part of our team, but we offer competitive salaries, a flexible working environment, and a generous range of benefits.

Please apply by completing our short application form and attaching your most up-to-date CV.

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector. To safeguard this we are signatories to Tech Talent Charter to better enable us to be a responsible business.

Note to all applicants -Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early._