Position: Head of Development
Company: ZONE3000 (Namecheap, Inc)
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Required skills**

— T-Shaped specialist, that has competence in backend, frontend, and infrastructure development
— Ready to work with a variety of different technologies, such as .NET, JavaScript, PHP, Python
— Experience in documenting software and with software requirements management
— Knowledge of architectural, design, and infrastructure patterns
— Extensive knowledge and production experience with different DBs
— Be an expert in next development areas: CI / CD, automated testing, development tools
— Understanding agile and SCRUM framework in particular
— Be proactive and have a strong position regarding reaching required software quality
— Competent use of English (reading, writing, and speaking)
— Extensive experience working as Technical Lead and collaboration with multiple teams of developers and stakeholders

**As a plus**

— Experience with building applications on top of one of the cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure or similar
— Experience in microservices architecture adoption
— Experience in software security evaluation
— Knowledge of system quality attributes

**We offer**

— High & competitive salary
— Challenging work in an international professional environment
— Opportunity to influence software development process, to be the owner of the product in your field of expertise
— Opportunity to apply SAFe methodology
— Flexible management
— Relocation Bonus when moving from a different city / country
— Full benefits package: paid vacation and sick leave
— Continuous professional development (free internal and external professional trainings)
— Free English classes in the company office
— Free use of the services provided by Namecheap (for non-commercial purposes)
— Quarterly teambuilding activities and company corporate events
— Coffee, tea, fruits

**Responsibilities**

— Oversee and improve development processes in a number of teams
— Ensure that industry best standards of platform stability and reliability are followed
— Define and enforce technical excellence within Engineering teams
— Actively participate in discussions of architectural solutions and details of technical implementation
— Ensure that solutions approved with the Architects team are properly implemented within Engineering
— Evaluate the quality of the software and development processes of its delivery
— Support of architectural consistency and self-consistent technical decisions of development teams
— Communicate the Technology strategy to the Engineering teams
— Represent the Engineering teams and communicate technical challenges and opportunities to the stakeholders
— Evaluate the technical competence of the teams
— Provide support and share knowledge with Development Leads
— Manage a team of developers working on tools for internal needs
— Build trusted environment with Engineering Team members and other stakeholders
— Act as most Senior technical expert, provide inputs to Developers and QA Engineers

**Project description**

Namecheap is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and technology company founded in 2000. It is one of the fastest-growing American companies according to the 2018 Inc. 5000. With over 13 million domains under management, Namecheap is the second-largest domain registrar in the world.

The Engineering department in Namecheap has about 20 self-organized teams working on high-quality products that would enhance user experience and ensure the stable performance of business solutions.

The role of Head of Development is about overseeing and improvement of development processes in Engineering, ensuring following Architecture team recommendations, identifying and resolving technical issues. Together with the Engineering Leadership team, you will be in charge of the timely and smooth delivery of business and internal initiatives.