Software Development Team Leader

ParentPay Group is Europe's leading software product company and the UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.

ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.

Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

• Manage a Scrum team developing our Payments software products using agile methodologies.
• Growing the team skills and capabilities.
• Ensure high quality output from the developers and QA's.
• Help team achieve their delivery commitments by being hands-on when needed.
• Ensure the team follow the Software Development process and work with the Software Development Manager to refine and improve it.
• Run the Agile/Scrum process for the team.
• Stakeholder and progress reporting.
• Identify and mitigate risks within the area of responsibility. Escalating risks, issues, and challenges when appropriate.
• Acquire a comprehensive domain knowledge of our products and business

• Communication - Effective communicator at all levels from team members to stakeholders and senior management. Able to give clear and concise instruction and ensure everyone is kept well-informed.
• Motivation and Morale - Create high performance teams with high-morale through inspiration and motivation to keep them engaged and productive.
• Conflict Resolution - Maintain harmony by resolving conflict within the team or with other stakeholders.
• Focus and Agility - Keeping a cool head when under pressure to deliver against an ever-changing agile landscape.
• Coaching - Able to understand and leverage your teams strengths and weaknesses to help them overcome any business challenges they are faced with, by ensuring the team has a diversified set of skills and capabilities.
• Commitment to Quality - Continuously look at process improvement to maintain high standards of output from the team.
• Continuous Development - Be the driver behind the continuous development of team skills to help them to realise their full potential and future growth.

• Minimum 2 years experience managing a team in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• People Management, delegation, 121's, goal setting
• Scrum Master experience preferred
• SDLC - Requirements Gathering, Software Design, Development and QA Testing, CI/CD pipelines
• Stakeholder Reporting
• Risk Management
• Strong background in software development as either an Engineer or QA at a senior level
• A background in building web applications and services using the Microsoft .Net platform
• Knowledge of DevOps – continuous integration, deployment, DORA metrics
• Ideally
• Experience working in a Product-led development environment.
• Experience of product discovery methods.
• Experience in the EdTech industry.

ParentPay Group brings together eleven brands that drive development in EdTech. As Europe's largest EdTech provider, we help primary and secondary schools streamline their cashless payments, improve their parent engagement, safely manage meals and securely store their data. Fundamentally, we create time for learning.