Head of Development

Våra 2 800 medarbetare stöttar och förenklar verksamheten för våra 22 000 kunder. Vi är specialister på att lösa våra kunders verksamhetskritiska uppgifter, som ekonomi, lön och HR, så kunderna kan koncentrera sig på sina kärnverksamheter.

Tidigare hette vi Visma Services, men sedan vi separerade från Visma i december 2016 heter vi Azets Insight. Vi är dock fortfarande den ledande leverantören av ekonomi- och lönetjänster i Norden.

På Azets kombinerar vi erfarenhet och expertis med moderna digitala lösningar. Med modern teknologi och expertrådgivning hjälper vi våra kunder att omvandla data till värdefulla insikter, arbeta smartare och fatta mer lönsamma beslut.

About the role

We are looking for a Head of Development for CoSoft, an independent software development organisation within Azets developing software for CogitalGroup.

The group is currently serving clients mainly from the Nordics and UK. You will be part of the management team based in Stockholm, where the Head of Product is responsible for the “what” and you will lead the development team on the “how”. Making sure that our software development has good best practices and that the technical platform is up to par both today and tomorrow. As the business side has recently expanded rapidly there is a high demand for suitable technical solutions; opening up new exciting opportunities. You will lead the development teams (20+ developers located in Vilnius) from Stockholm and from time to time be on-site to enable the best possible collaboration.

You will make sure that you have the right competencies and at times drive recruitment together with the local team in both Sweden, Lithuania, and Romania. The team is using a modern tech stack and makes 2-3 daily releases across the SaaS product portfolio using agile principles and continuous deployment. 

About you

To succeed in this role, you have an agile mindset, you need to be a proactive leader and take responsibility for the whole delivery. You like to coach and support your team members while you are not afraid of taking tough decisions. 

As you will lead a distributed team of developers you need to have the ability to both communicate clear directions as well as create trust and freedom so the team builds up autonomy and own thinking. You are used to setting your own agenda and together with the dev team drive necessary improvements.

We think you have experience from:

Working with distributed teams
SaaS single page application development
Architecture, architectural patterns / evaluating trade-offs
Managing multiple software development teams
Modern programming practices (eg. C#, PHP, Java, Python, etc.)
CI/CD
Integrations (REST, Messaging Queues, SSO)
Linux
Relationship databases
It´s a plus if you have experience with:

Design patterns
Javascript (Angular, React, Vue.js)
Docker, Kubernetes
Nginx
AWS
What can this role offer

You will get a lot of freedom to drive a dev team in a smaller environment but within a larger setup.  
You will be part of the team creating new features that will reach a large customer base.
Modern SaaS company with high potential and a well-established client base. 
Continuous development environment (2-3 releases per day)