Development Manager

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Job Summary:

We are seeking a hands-on Software Development Manager to lead a small, dynamic team of developers and testers delivering high-quality software for our mission-critical, cloud-based Agiblocks commodity trading and risk management product.

In this role you’ll own the full lifecycle of a highly flexible and modern solution deployed in international ag- and soft-commodity trading companies where operations cannot fail. Customers rely on this system to manage trades, risks, logistics, billing, financial integrations and compliance. Your work and leadership must result in bullet-proof, high-availability software that seamlessly integrates with other systems including market data and ERP connections. If you have the technical vision and execution chops to build for high performance, maximum up-time/availability, and operational resiliency under support-intensive conditions, this is the opportunity for you.

At Agiboo we are making lives easier for our customers. Our flagship product, Agiblocks CTRM, is the first Commodity Trade and Risk Management software solution that really simplifies the daily practices of commodity trade professionals. Designed by traders, Agiblocks enables its users to focus on the essence of their trading.

We are a truly diverse and multicultural organisation – with colleagues and customers based across the globe from Europe to Singapore to Brazil and more. Our employees are experts in their field, passionate about what they do and always looking for new and better ways to solve our industry's problems.

Part of Cultura Technologies and Constellation Software Inc, we have an entrepreneurial spirit with the personal feel of a smaller company, backed by the strength of a larger, global parent company. Day to day you will be the expert in your field, owning and driving the sales strategy and closing deal. As a small business, life at Agiboo is dynamic, fast-paced and exciting. You will utilise your network, build on existing relationships and attend conferences to build up your sales pipeline. Supporting you will be expertise, knowledge and resources from Cultura and CSI, that can help you be the best that you can be. We are passionate about developing our people, and there are plenty of opportunities to develop your skills, build your knowledge and further your career whether within Agiboo or elsewhere within the Group.

Agiboo is a team bursting with talent, helping make our customers lives easier, it’s a big challenge, are you up for it?

Job Description:

About the role

Agiblocks is the cloud-based CTRM platform that international agricultural and soft-commodity traders use to run trades, risk, logistics, billing, financial integrations and compliance. Our customers’ operations cannot fail, so high availability, performance and resilience are not features, they are the baseline.

We are looking for a hands-on Software Development Team Lead to run the day-to-day R&D process, provide technical leadership and coordinate the DevOps effort. Working closely with the Product Owner and Business Unit Leader, you will keep the team’s development rhythm effective, participate in technical discussions and help the team make pragmatic delivery and design decisions.

A defining part of this role is changing how we build and test. We are moving to AI-supported, largely automated testing and adopting AI-assisted software development across the team, and we want a leader who will drive that change rather than wait for it.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will remain close enough to the code to review work, troubleshoot issues and contribute directly when this helps the team, while spending most of your time coordinating delivery, facilitating technical decisions and improving how the team works.

What you will own

Modernising how we build and test, a priority for this role

Lead the transition towards substantially more automated testing: expand automated coverage, reduce manual regression effort and use AI-assisted test generation and maintenance where it adds value, so releases can be validated faster and more consistently.

Introduce AI-assisted software development across the team - coding assistants, AI-supported code review, documentation and legacy migration and make it a standing working practice rather than a pilot.

Set the guardrails that keep AI-generated code safe in a mission-critical product: human accountability for every merge, security review, licence and IP hygiene and no erosion of readability or maintainability.

Define and report the measures that prove it is working, delivery cycle time, escaped defects, automated coverage and regression run time.

Team leadership

Lead, mentor and motivate the team across development, QA and DevOps, onshore and offshore.

Drive recruiting, onboarding and performance feedback.

Grow engineers technically through code review, pair programming and design discussion.

Build a collaborative, accountable, results-driven team culture.

Delivery and process

Work with the Product Owner to clarify requirements, estimate work and plan sprints.

Run the team’s day-to-day R&D process: facilitate daily stand-ups, prepare and lead twice-weekly user-story grooming sessions and run biweekly sprint closing and planning meetings.

Coordinate development and DevOps contributions to customer-funded, consulting and implementation projects and report progress against their milestones.

Track and report sprint outcomes and delivery metrics.

Coordinate the software release process and provide cost estimates, or facilitate reliable team estimates, for new work, customer requests and quotations.

Technical ownership

Stay hands-on: write code, review pull requests and debug production issues.

Lead and moderate technical discussions, help the team evaluate options and make or approve day-to-day technical decisions within the agreed product and architecture direction.

Coordinate the DevOps effort for Agiboo-built and deployed applications, align priorities with the DevOps engineers and ensure that hosting, deployment and release needs are addressed. The role sets day-to-day direction and facilitates decisions but is not expected to administer the platform independently.

Troubleshoot product and infrastructure issues and enforce secure, sound engineering practice.

Evaluate and lead modernisation of tools, platforms and integrations (market data, ERP and financial systems).

What you bring — essential

Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or a comparable technical discipline.

5+ years in professional software development, with solid experience building and maintaining commercial web-based business software.

Experience as a technical lead, senior developer with team coordination responsibilities, or development manager. This may be a first formal people-leadership role for a candidate who has already led technical discussions and delivery activities.

Strong working knowledge of web-based C# and .NET, including traditional .NET and modern .NET; SQL Server and Entity Framework; containerized software hosting and SaaS delivery; and integration with external systems.

A modern UI framework in production: React, Blazor or ASP.NET MVC.

Microsoft Azure and microservices architecture, with enough working knowledge of containerised, cloud-based deployment (Kubernetes) to direct and challenge a DevOps team.

Layered / 3-tier application design, with clean separation of business logic from UI.

Relational and document databases: MS SQL / Azure SQL and MongoDB.

Hands-on Agile/Scrum, CI/CD and test automation practice, with automated tests integrated into the pipeline.

Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development in a working team - coding assistants, AI-supported review or AI-generated tests with a clear view of where it helps and where it does not.

What you bring — preferred

Optimizing cloud applications for high thro