Team leader Application Development

Algemene omschrijving

Are you ready to join a disruptive company and lead an app development team and have been a software developer for 2-4 years?

In a nutshell:
You will coordinate day-to-day the projects and support of the app development team with their questions, proposals and their personal development. Further on you are the lead in connection TV-Operators and content suppliers to create and deliver a ready-to-go app for their TV-Appstore in a client-focused and efficient way of working.

What will you do?
• Coordinate a team of about 13 application developers, designers, testers and SDK support staff and a natural drive to always keep improving on team development, performance, collaboration and efficiency;
• Coordinate the development and ensure requirements as API-specification and design is available from the content partner to start a smooth app development trajectory;
• Make sure team members are ready to go and ensure a flawless creation, validation and release of apps. The application deployment towards TV customer app store will be successfully delivered to the customer project teams. Therefore, a close collaboration with your team, our customer project teams, and content parties is key;
• Maintain and manage the application development planning and track it on a weekly basis and always look for the best way of working;
• Align with our TV operator customers to ensure that the right hardware (customer SetTop Box) is in place to rightfully validate and QA existing and new applications and strive towards a quick acceptation of Apps at the customer side to get them live on respective platforms;
• Ensure the appropriate processes/infrastructure and procedures are developed and applied in the application development/QA and SDK support team;
• Ensure that the SDK support services that we provide to external application developers, using the Metrological SDK, is at a high standard.
• When there are issues with any app which is live at TV operators you will ensure the team investigates and resolves the issues with urgency.

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What are we looking for?
• You thrive in being involved in handling many parallel trajectories and juggle many balls. You like those dynamics;
• You do not have a 9-to-5 mentality and can deal with stressful situations and changing priorities;
• You gain easily trust as a leader/coordinator and are eager to develop your team to maximize the potential;
• Ability to influence the internal organization to change way-of-working/processes to improve efficiency and thrive for customer satisfaction
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate project activities and work and communicate effectively on a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate with external customers & suppliers

Required experience and technical knowledge
• 2-4 years of hands on software development experience. Strong preference for development experience in javascript language.
• 5+ years’ experience as a team leader of a software development team or project manager ready to lead a team of software development projects
• Bachelor or master level degree in computer sciences or related technical area,
• Fluent spoken and written English, understanding of the Dutch language is desired but not required;
• You do not have a 9-to-5 mentality and can deal with stressful situations and changing priorities;
• You have experience with working with Jira.

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Meer informatie

Why are we the best company to currently work?
Metrological is a hidden gem. As an App store platform, we make it possible to watch your favourite Apps like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon on the world's leading cable operators like Comcast, KPN, UPC and Ooredoo. This (inter)national company has presence in over 30 countries and with more than 300 apps on your set-top boxes and we are fast growing. We have offices in Rotterdam, Poland, USA and India. We are proud of our -around- 60 employees who love to be involved in tech, innovation and disrupting. And beyond that we are:

• Situated with our headquarters in the heart of Rotterdam and can best be described as a modern with an informal and professional atmosphere;
• Embracing the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in the company that is keeping us busy and growing:
• Offering (growth) possibilities that are virtually unlimited. You will be challenged in a position in which you can relinquish your creativity and work on the product of the future. You work in an inspiring environment with the latest equipment, so you can get the best out of yourself;

Apply?
Do you want to contribute to the success of Metrological? Send your resume to Marlous de Leeuw: recruitment@metrological.com and we get in touch with you within 2 working days.

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