Propellerhead

Product Manager

• As a Product Owner at Propellerhead, your primary purpose will be to ensure clarity on the next most valuable thing to deliver.
• This is a client-facing role, important to maintaining long-term relationships with our customers through continuous high-value delivery.
• As such, you will work closely with internal and client stakeholders to ensure both functional and commercial objectives are met.
• Build and groom the product backlog, ensuring it contains appropriate items, prioritised effectively, and that items at the top are ready for delivery.
• Clearly communicate product backlog items to the product delivery team to build a shared understanding of the problems and solutions.
• Ensure delivery teams work solely on funded backlog items, constraining product delivery as necessary.
• Work with stakeholders to create and prioritise valuable product deliverables with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Manage scope to deliver maximum value, while ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Evaluate whether a product deliverable achieved the desired outcome, making necessary adjustments based on feedback and results.
• Keep product delivery teams informed of upcoming work and broadly communicate relevant context and problems faced to build a shared understanding of the product direction.

Product Owner

Full-stack Engineer

• Active participation in all aspects of software solution design, including code structure, deployment architecture, DevOps, automated testing and integration of third party systems in line with our technical strategies.
• Collaborating with client stakeholders and with fellow Propellerhead Developers, Analysts, and Solution Architects, to create a shared understanding of the solution design and roadmap delivery in line with agreed budgets.
• Constructing software at every layer of the stack, from user interfaces, back end services, data repositories, interoperability, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, automated testing and system monitoring.
• Providing second-line support of the systems you build and actively seeking ways to keep your software secure, performant and reliable.
• Passing on your learning of new technologies or techniques to the broader organisation as part of our knowledge sharing programme.
• As a core team member you will be responsible for directing the development approach and reviewing components delivered by implementation partners to ensure quality measures such as security, reliability, maintainability, performance and functional fit for purpose.
• Actively moving forward the evolution of our code base from C# to Rust.

Senior Software Developer

Solutions Engineer

• Work closely alongside our Product Owners to plan ahead on a portfolio of product roadmaps.
• Lead and guide the design of complex systems.
• Shape technical direction while staying close to the code.
• Set standards for programming, and produce software solutions in an agile, lean, and evolutionary manner.
• Responsible for the internal adoption of our technical strategy and contribute to strategy formulation.
• Champion the technical strategy of Propellerhead as a key business differentiator.
• Ensure quality measures such as speed-to-value, security, reliability, maintainability, performance and functional fit for purpose are met.

Solutions Architect – Tech Lead

• Developing, reviewing and communicating solution architecture in collaboration with the Development teams.
• Championing the technical strategy of Propellerhead as our key business differentiator, and aligning design and implementation of the solutions in your portfolio in line with that technical vision.
• Setting, maintaining and communicating practices, standards and expectations covering all aspects of software delivery.
• Developing strategies to ensure quality measures such as speed-to-value, security, reliability, maintainability, performance and functional fit for purpose.
• Specifically, you will be a principal contributor to the evolution of our code base from C# to Rust and the ecosystem of tools, practices and services that implies.

Solutions Architect, Tech Lead

Solutions Architect / Tech Lead

Analyst

• Identifying risks and defining mitigations, including test cases, in collaboration with Software Engineers
• Refining backlog items with clear acceptance criteria, working alongside Software Engineers
• Confirming deliverables are release-ready with input from Software Engineers
• Performing Quality Assurance by designing tests to ensure solutions are fit for purpose before delivery and in-production tests to monitor application behaviour
• Supporting the shift toward automated testing by specifying automation requirements for Software Engineers to reduce reliance on manual tests
• Demonstrating working software to clients regularly and collaborating with Software Engineers and Product Owners to integrate feedback
• Collaborating with clients’ testing teams to make UAT as effective as possible
• Monitoring production issues and leading testing improvements to prevent recurrence
• Documenting and communicating the risk profile of the applications in your team’s portfolio

Senior Software Analyst

• Active participation in all aspects of software solution design, including code structure, deployment architecture, DevOps, automated testing and integration of third party systems in line with technical strategies.
• Collaborating with client stakeholders and internal Developers, Analysts, and Solution Architects to create shared understanding of solution design and roadmap delivery aligned with budgets.
• Constructing software at every layer of the stack: user interfaces, back end services, data repositories, interoperability, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, automated testing and system monitoring.
• Providing second-line support of the systems you build and actively seeking ways to keep software secure, performant and reliable.
• Passing on learning of new technologies or techniques to the broader organisation via knowledge sharing programme.
• Directing the development approach and reviewing components delivered by implementation partners to ensure security, reliability, maintainability, performance and functional fit.
• Actively moving the evolution of the code base from C# to Rust.
• Work within a culture that prioritises technical excellence, curiosity, forward-thinking design, trust, continuous learning, and meaningful impact.

• Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to plan product roadmaps and deliver resilient software systems.
• Lead and guide the design of complex, multi-tier and distributed systems and ensure early delivery and continuous improvement.
• Set standards, practices and expectations for software delivery across programming, quality, security, reliability, maintainability and performance.
• Champion and drive internal adoption of Propellerhead's technical strategy and contribute actively to strategy formulation.
• Stay hands-on: prototype new ideas, remain close to code, and support evolution of codebase from C# to Rust.
• Participate in designing cloud-based solutions (Azure/AWS), building CI/CD pipelines and instrumenting systems for operations.
• Work with streaming/messaging platforms (e.g., Kafka, NATS) as required and integrate existing services with custom development.
• Communicate architecture and technical decisions effectively to internal and customer stakeholders.