Skills:

Software Architecture, Product Owner, Architecture, Automation, English

Job type:

Full-time

• Gather needs from management and users, prioritise them, and build/maintain the product roadmap.
• Write and arbitrate the backlog; facilitate scoping and refinement rituals.
• Engineering & Architecture.
• Design and evolve the software architecture with security, performance, and scalability by design.
• Establish and uphold DevOps practices: CI/CD, automation, observability.
• Drive cloud hosting choices, prioritising a PaaS model.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, AI code assistants) to boost the team's productivity and code quality, while keeping the team in control of design and review.
• Set and enforce development standards; mentor the junior developer (code reviews, pairing).
• Testing & Quality - core responsibility.
• Define and own the test strategy across the stack: unit, integration, end-to-end, and non-regression tests.
• Embed automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline as a quality gate - no release without green tests.
• Champion test-driven habits and meaningful coverage (focus on critical paths and business logic, not vanity metrics).
• Introduce performance, load, and security testing where the application's risk profile requires it.
• Make testing a shared team discipline: coach the senior and junior developers on writing maintainable, valuable tests.
• Delivery & Organisation.
• Plan, track progress, and honour commitments (deadlines, quality).
• Ensure smooth, constructive communication with the infrastructure teams.
• Run & Production.
• Drive operational maintenance and production incident management.
• Set up service-quality monitoring (availability, performance) and feed lessons learned back into the test suite.
• Required Profile.
• Proven experience in business-application development (5+ years) with genuine technical seniority.
• Strong command of software architecture, application security, and performance/scalability concerns.
• Demonstrated testing culture: comfortable designing test strategies and automating them in CI/CD.
• Solid DevOps (CI/CD) and cloud PaaS foundations.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development without compromising quality.
• Proven ability to engage with users and management (Product Owner posture).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, especially in a dev/infrastructure collaboration context.
• Strong sense of organisation, follow-through, and commitment-keeping.
• Good level of English.