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Vesta Software Group

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201 - 500 employees

🏗️ Construction

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Construction • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Vesta Software Group is a global organization specializing in the acquisition and long-term growth of vertical market software companies. Unlike traditional acquirers, Vesta operates on a buy-and-hold strategy, maintaining the independence of the companies they acquire and investing in their sustainable growth. Vesta prides itself on never selling a business, instead prioritizing the autonomy of its acquired companies and leveraging a network of resources to accelerate growth. With more than 30 acquisitions and a presence in over 9 countries, Vesta supports its portfolio companies with best practices and capital while fostering a productive and positive workplace culture, demonstrated by its Great Place To Work® certification.

📋 Description

• Lead on team practices, notably implementing lean/kanban across all teams, and help migrate those teams not currently in lean/kanban mode • Work with technical team leads on language, database and tooling decisions • Manage the day to day: 1:1s, blockers and delivery rhythm • Ensure all team leads are delivering against learning objectives, and run Show and Tells • Monitor delivery velocity across all squads and report to the CTO • Build and maintain automated test coverage, and set QA standards across the team • Provide SDET-level input into test architecture and automation frameworks • Own code review culture: standards, consistency and feedback quality • Work in tandem with the CTO to identify, pilot and roll out AI developer tooling across the team

🎯 Requirements

• SDET background or equivalent, having built automated testing frameworks, not just overseen them • Hands-on QA automation experience: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress or comparable tooling • Engineering management experience, having managed engineers, run 1:1s and been accountable for team delivery • AI adoption experience: has introduced AI developer tooling (Claude, Codex or equivalent frontier model) in a team context, not just personal use • Experience in fintech, payments, SaaS or a similarly regulated, delivery-focused environment • Familiarity with some of the languages and databases in use at JFT (C#.NET, VB.NET, Vue.js, MongoDB, Node.js, PHP/Laravel, Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL), with the willingness and ability to ramp quickly on the rest • Comfortable reporting directly to a CTO and delivering against the engineering vision with limited management overhead

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus a day for your birthday or significant celebration • Private Health Insurance • Life Assurance at 4x base salary • Enhanced company pension contribution • Personal Travel Insurance • Access to Benefiz benefits platform and a range of opt-in benefits • Electric/Hybrid Vehicle scheme and Cycle to Work scheme • 10-day rolling sick plan including extended illness pay • EAP and Mental Health First Aider support