The Company

We are Malta’s largest independent financial services firm, boasting a rich heritage dating back to 1971 delivering a comprehensive financial ecosystem connecting capital raising, wealth management, online trading and payments which provides an ISO-certified customer service. Our success has garnered many prestigious accolades in Malta and gained international recognition, featuring prominently on Bloomberg TV and in Microsoft’s Customer Stories.

We provide a premier digital payments and investment platform seamlessly integrating payment and investment services, providing both Indivduals and businesses with highly competitive exchange rates, global payment capabilities, multi-currency card management, and access to over 20,000 investment opportunities across a wide range of asset classes via both mobile and desktop platforms. For businesses, we offer swift on-boarding within 48 hours and an extensive suite of liquidity management tools designed to optimise interest income.

Summary of Position

The Software Development Team Lead forms part of an agile development team, building and working on enterprise grade software systems on top of the Microsoft .NET development stack. The Team Lead will provide technical and team leadership through coaching and mentorship.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Define user stories, tasks, and timelines that need to be carried out in line with assigned projects. Guide team development efforts towards successful and timely project delivery in line with the team sprint goal.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Through daily standups ensure that all team members are aware on the different areas team members are working upon.
• Ensure knowledge of solutions under the responsibility of the team is extended across team members.
• Escalate with HR and Head of Software when team members are not performing to agreed standards and levels.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits. Ensure to set clear benchmarks through software being used to oversee quality including Sonar Cloud quality gates and code reviews.
• Fully own, together with the team, the solutions under responsibility including daily monitoring, creation and maintaining of dashboards, create KPIs and alert thresholds to be proactive towards production issues.
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team and fostering an environment for collaboration and good team spirit.
• Foster an environment for collaboration and good team spirit.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications. Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements together with Business Analyst
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems. Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
• Be involved in recruitment of new team members through interviews and assessments
• Keep up to date with latest trends within software development

Experience & Education

• Educated to degree level in software development
• Experience in a banking/financial services company is a must ideally with experience in investments
• At least 5 years’ experience in software development using C#, .NET and SQL Server technologies
• Experience in a variety of software development approaches and methodologies
• Experience in requirements capture, analysis techniques and process improvement approaches

Skills Requirements

• Experience of people management and the ability to lead and influence others
• Experience in formal personal development planning and individual, team and process performance management
• Proven experience in leading and managing the delivery of system/software development projects in a structured environment
• Excellent personal organisation and ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks
• Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges

Benefits

• Great Remuneration (Paid in EUR) 💰
• Remote Work / Work From Home 🏦
• Accelerated Career Growth 📚
• Latest Tech Exposure💻
• International Exposure 🚀