Director, Software Engineering (PHP / CMS) / 60% remote

Company Description

About us 

Jellyfish is your digital partner. We support and drive digital transformation by providing the right technology, strategy and training.

We are one of the world’s fastest-growing number of talented people across our expanding global network. We are Google’s leading global partner. And our close relationship is growing where we are, what we do and how we deliver it. And to do this, we want to grow our skillset. We’d like you to join our journey as ONE Jellyfish.

Job Description

About the Role 

Jellyfish is looking for an Engineering Director (Hybrid Working - 60% remote) to join our global engineering team. If you enjoy coding, sharing ideas and love being part of a collaborative team within a growing international agency, then this is the role for you.

The role is a combination of technical support for new business development, leadership of the Engineering department, coaching of more junior developers and hand-on engineering as needed.

This role will be the most senior engineering resource in our Americas region, providing an amazing growth opportunity for the right candidate.

Responsibilities 

• You will be working as part of a customer-centric product development team, responsible for designing, building and maintaining both new and existing products and services.
• You will be contributing towards client & internal projects, and ensuring the work Jellyfish delivers is of high quality.
• You will contribute to new business opportunities and the scoping of features for new and existing clients, providing accurate estimations for work.
• You will contribute to the design, implementation, continuous improvement and governance of Jellyfish Engineering Standards & Practices.
• You will take ownership of the quality, consistency and efficiency of Jellyfish solutions and teams for client & internal work.
• You will provide expert-level architectural solutions that factor in the timeline, budget, scope, maintainability, reusability and Site Reliability Engineering principles.
• You will act as a technical coach and mentor to existing team members, ensuring efficiency on projects and supporting their personal development.
• You will work with our Engineering Resource Manager to effectively delegate assignments across multiple concurrent projects.
• You will be part of the Jellyfish Engineering Steering Group, provide leadership for colleagues and the department and drive business performance, client success and quality outputs.
• You will investigate and pitch new work, create roadmaps, investigate and articulate the right technical approach (and why), to support the Jellyfish Sales & Partnership Capability and be client-facing.

Qualifications

What you’ll need

• Leadership experience working in a software engineer role (PHP or similar).
• Experience architecting and delivering large-scale solutions with a distributed architecture.
• Experience designing and delivering Content Management Systems (WordPress, Drupal, Strapi or other headless solutions), Frameworks (Laravel), and an understanding of Relational Database Schemas (e.g. MySQL), APIs (e.g. REST).
• Experience delivering solutions using industry standards (e.g. PHP PSR-4/PSR-12).
• Experience architecting & delivering solutions that utilise package managers (e.g. Composer, NPM) and web services (JSON/XML APIs).
• Experience with applying and enforcing Agile/Lean (iterative) development practices.
• 5years of professional experience.
• Fluent English speaking or proficient written and spoken English - C1 or C2 Common Eurpoean Frame of Reference (CEFR).

Advantageous:

• Strong verbal and communication skills (both technical and non-technical).
• Open, honest and direct, comfortable in giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Self-motivated with a sense of ownership.
• Experience working as a Scrum Master or in Agile teams.
• Experience working with a Continuous Integration/Delivery process.
• Experience with applying TDD/BDD development techniques.
• Experience with Node, NPM, AngularJS, VueJS, ReactJS.
• Experience developing solutions with Headless CMS tools.

Additional Information

If you’re someone who can bring experience, ideas and a hands-on can-do attitude then we’d like to hear from you. Before we do, take a look at the key skills we’re looking for. If it still sounds like the role is made for you, then get in touch today.

Salary: Competitive salary. 
 
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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