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Work with us - Development Team Leader

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Mogees Ltd is a start-up based in East London.  Our product, Mogees, is a device that turns everyday objects into unique music instruments - breaking the boundaries between the digital and the physical world. It consists of a vibration sensor and a mobile app that transform the vibrations that we make when we touch a physical object into music on the fly. It is used by the founder of the company, Bruno Zamborlin, with the electronic music duo Plaid (Warp records) as well as by Mexican guitarists duo Rodrigo y Gabriela and British musician Imogen Heap. The company is populated with young, highly motivated individuals that will form the core of a extraordinary team. We work hard but enjoy our work and find time to make it fun. Find out more about us via our website www.mogees.co.uk
Your job:
We’re looking for a team lead with significant experience of developing and managing a small team of researchers and developers targeting Android / iOS platforms. You will need to be both technically accomplished and demonstrate excellent leadership skills. You will be responsible for guiding and growing a team of at least 6 developers and be the interface to the pure researchers. You will be responsible for the creation of the development environment and you will implement the processes and structures to enable efficient cross platform development. You will have responsibility for the software component of our products and the stability, deployability and upgradeability of our products across a global consumer market. As the lead software engineer you will play a key role in the recruitment of your team. Enlarging it from 1 to 6.
As part of this role, you will be required to:
Ensure that you and your team are able to turn the brief into working, commercial-quality applications within the time and budget constraints agreed upon.

Establish standards for the delivery of work using Agile / Scrum / Kanban methodologies as you see fit, producing weekly management reports for management.

Facilitate peer coding reviews, and ensure that the use of collaborative techniques and environments results in a library of re-usable methods to be added to our existing core C++ library of Mogees audio calls.

Establish a robust framework for testing and determine and introduce testing tools where necessary.

Establish source control procedures.

Contribute to the personal development of each member of your team and ensure that the team has the skills required to deliver the desired outputs, and deliver continuous improvement of the team considering modern practices such as test driven development, continuous integration and other practices that may be relevant to a small development team.

Manage the entire life-cycle, from the creation of the brief with the senior management of the company, to the planning / milestones / production of work packages / testing and deployment stage, overseeing QA and internal / external UAT.

Manage the growth and development of the members of your team to ensure they remain at the peak of their ability.

Your skills:
At least 3 years overall programming experience, with at least 1 of these in iOS / Android development.
Excellent knowledge of C++ and of developing either (but preferably both) iOS and Android commercial mobile applications.
Demonstrable experience of having managed a small (3-10) team of developers.
The ability to work to deadlines, be self-starting and only needing light-touch management, whilst possessing excellent leadership and communication skills.
Complete Software Lifecycle experience from planning to deployment – not forgetting documentation and maintenance / support.
Good knowledge of Objective C, Xcode, and iOS development is a plus, as is some experience in audio DSP.
Experience of cross-platform mobile app development tools and submission of apps to Google Play / iTunes.
Based in East London, this is a full-time role with the salary circa at £55,000. Over the next couple of years benefits and bonuses will be added to the package.
To apply for this role, please send a CV, presentation letter and if possible links that will support your application to bruno@mogees.co.uk.
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