About the role
Experience bar:
• Min. 8 years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role
• Proven delivery track record; experience managing and mentoring engineering teams
Technical areas to assess:
• .NET / C# proficiency
• FDD and Kanban methodology depth
• Serverless AWS cloud platforms
• SDLC tooling — Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence
• DORA / SPACE metrics — experience using these to drive team productivity
• CI/CD pipeline ownership and implementation
Leadership areas to assess:
• People management — 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching
• Translating business strategy into engineering priorities
• Stakeholder communication, including to non-technical audiences
• Data-driven decision-making on delivery metrics
• Quality assurance culture — coding standards, testing protocols, continuous improvement
• Change management — introducing new tools, processes, or methodologies to a team
Key behaviors to probe:
• How do they handle underperformance while maintaining team morale?
• How do they balance technical debt against feature delivery under pressure?
• How do they keep engineers engaged and growing in a legacy environment?
• Can they drive innovation within constrained or complex systems?