Backend Team Leader

Job Title
Backend Team Leader

Job Description

Backend Team Leader

As the leader of the development team within the VUE backend group, you will engage in approximately 50% hands-on tasks while overseeing the group's key workflow domain responsibilities within the Vue product. You will manage the team's deliverables, encompassing development, verification, training, and support service personnel during customer escalations. In this role, you will act as an enabler, fostering the adoption, success, and continual enhancement of agile and software development practices. Additionally, you will serve as a crucial liaison with other functions and organizations outside of R&D, driving business results through effective collaboration.

Your role:

You will lead a team of seven developers and verification engineers
You will focus on complex development and maintenance activities in the Hospital Radiology and Enterprise domains
You will ensure the delivery of software modules and components with high quality
You will support the service department in addressing product-related customer escalations
You will promote personal and team development in software coding, testing, and automation
You will manage the team's daily activities and ensure timely and quality deliverables.
You will adhere to software development professionalism standards, including processes, methodologies, quality, design, coding, and testing
You will carry out complex development and prototyping tasks
You will foster domain knowledge, system thinking, and customer understanding within the team
You will promote an environment of trust and openness and leverage external capabilities locally and globally
A career at Philips comes with all sorts of wonderful benefits. Be sure to speak to your recruiter about benefits in your region.

You're the right fit if:

You hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science / software
You hold 7+ years of experience as a SW engineer
You hold 2+ years of experience in a formal leadership role, leading a team of engineers
You have experience in leading Agile Development teams (desirable)
You have proven software engineering skills using C++, .Net, C# and SQL
Knowledge of Python and Perl scripting languages will be considered an advantage
You have proven skills in software architecture
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with fluency in English
Experience with the medical device industry or other regulated industry will be considered an advantage.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office role.

*This role is not open to relocation.

About Philips

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