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About the Role:

We're looking for a highly technical Software Development Manager who can drive technical projects and provide leadership for a group of engineers in an innovative and fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of the projects.

 

Responsibilities:

• Drive innovation and manage technical projects.

• Integrates functional strategies and develops specific objectives for function

• Operates at both a tactical and a strategic level. Regularly interacts with senior management on matters concerning several functional areas, divisions, and/or customers.

• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members

• Assign areas of ownership, ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources

• Maintain high morale and motivate engineers to go above and beyond

• Daily management of objectives, priorities, trade-offs, risk, and performance management of all reporting staff.

• Participate in architecture discussions and planning with Product Management and Engineering.

• Develops departmental budget, expense, and staffing planning.

• Communicate status, risks, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross-functional teams and high-level management.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role.

• Min 12-15 years software development experience with a distinguished track record on technically demanding projects

• Min 3-5 years relevant experience managing large, fast-paced, and dynamic engineering teams.

• Experience in managing complex projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies

• Strong technical skills in Object-Oriented Programming and server-side development. Expertise in Java is preferred.

• Establish credibility with smart engineers quickly.

• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, impeccable organizational and time management skills

• Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications, and can prioritize on the fly.

• Experience in short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and have worked on a product that was actually released for public consumption

Desired Skills:

• Experience in building API’s and data integration platforms.

• Experience in building software based on messaging/eventing flows.

• Experience in agile development methodologies such as scrum.

• Prior development or management experience with cloud computing platforms.

• Bachelor's Degree required, Master’s preferred. CS or EE preferred.

Benefits & Perks
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