A little bit about us

We are an ambitious company founded in 1996 and listed on the London Stock Exchange (CNIC), which is growing quickly through acquisition. We live and breathe our values and are committed to the growth of our business that we achieve through the growth and development of our people. We are successful because we recognise that our people are at the core of everything we do. Our mission is to enable the global economy to achieve its online aspirations.

What we do

As the developer and operator of software platforms, we provide web presence services to customers in over 180 countries. We are a leading provider of tools required to create websites, use email, and secure business online. Headquartered in London, the Group generates revenue and income from the worldwide sale of internet domain names and hosting on an annual subscription basis. CentralNic is also currently expanding its monetisation offering to acquire traffic and optimise online marketing activities. To learn more about the company, please go to our website www.centralnic.com.

The Role

As our Senior Manager, Web Development at CentralNic, you will ensure that all our websites across the group are state of the art and fulfill all requirements from our Marketing teams and present us in a professional way. You will ensure that we consolidate our different approaches for hosting and maintaining our websites by picking the right framework and CMS for this purpose. In order to do so, you will also work closely with other software and system engineer leads.

You will manage teams that work mostly remotely and are spread over multiple countries. Whilst teams are working in an agile way as Scrum teams you always have to stay on top of things and keep track of things.

You will take ownership of the roadmaps, timeframes, and tasks in cooperation with the Product Manager. The successful applicant will be expected to lead by example with a roll-up your sleeves, a hands-on attitude.

This role will ideally be based in Germany, France or the UK, however we are working remotely at the moment but will be taking a hybrid approach post-pandemic.

Key outcomes of the role will include: 

• Accountable for all aspects of the development of our websites and other online tools

• Translate business requirements into online experience, working closely with marketing and content creators to ensure accurate and successful production releases

• Comprehensive understanding of all the requisite underlying systems and connections that support the functioning of all sites, including connections to product database and internal API's

• Cooperate to connect web site/CMS software development with expert backend team

• Oversee and manage the Web Development Team (Squad) that is in charge of developing our existing and new web sites

• Managing the team to ensure that group engineering standards and best practices are followed

• Ensure that we use modern engineering standards and tools as well as set up plans in order to constantly reduce our technical debt. Be open-minded and always up for the modernization of our systems. Especially cloud-based approach will be become more and more important and have to be considered where applicable

• Ensuring that we have the right talent and skills within the engineering team in order to fulfill our mission. Identify gaps and define plans if the team is behind expectations

• Provide support to the Product Teams and other development teams
  
  
• Define KPI’s and ensure that we have the right metrics in place in order to check against expectations

About you 

• Demonstrates and take actions to continuously develop and grow

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry and technology developments

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with professionals at all  levels

• Good analytical skills and great attention to detail

• Problem solver, resilient

• Ability to thrive in an environment of pressing deadlines and constantly changing conditions, working on multiple assignments

• Good communication and social skills in both verbal and written and empathy to communicate complex issue
  
  
• Ability and willingness to coach and develop a team
  
  Experience and skills that will help you succeed 

• Strong experience as a Web Developer in either Wordpress or Kirby

• Some experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, e.g., Angular or React.Js

• Experience integrating with REST APIs

• Experience with HTML / CSS / TypeScript and common deployment mechanisms and tools (GitHub/GitLab/SVN, etc)

• Strong understanding of latest best practices for site performance and optimization

• High level of comfort building responsive websites and applications

• Strong grasp of design principles and visual layout

• Strong technical background on how to set up and build modern cloud-based (AWS) applications

• Experience in defining and measuring OKR’s
  
  
• Previous experience of leading a team
  
  What’s in it for you?

There are many reasons to come on board our team of talented professionals, but here are just a few…

We are collaborative, fair, consciously inclusive, and flexible

We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference

We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity

We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward

We offer a range of benefits (including your choice of tech) and a competitive package 

We offer a great work environment in an internationally successful enterprise in the online services industry

The Process

Our process will consist of an initial phone screen conversation over video via Google Meet with a member of our People team to make sure your expectations of the role are aligned with the business needs. There will then be the first round which will be a competency-based interview with the Hiring Manager and a member of the team.

We aim to keep you informed throughout the process so we will be communicative and transparent throughout (which also happens to be one of our company values)! ☺

Location

The role will ideally be based at one of our offices in Germany, France or the UK. We embrace flexible working and are happy to discuss suitable arrangements that will work for everyone.

If you need assistance completing an application for a position with us, please reach out to our Recruiting Team at talent@centralnic.com