Manager - Software Engineering

Role & responsibilities

• Manage and recruit to one or more cross functional Agile Teams, including Front-end and Back-end Developers to deliver valuable functionality to our clients. 
• Define and drive an overall unifying vision for the team and its projects, processes, workflows, and related areas, with a solid understanding of company objectives, through motivation, consensus building and leading change. 
• Work with peers and leadership to implement and drive adaptations across teams and strategic organizational processes, workflows, and related areas.
• Leverage your technical and domain expertise to partner with Product representatives, stakeholders and your team in defining project deliverables, presenting innovative solutions and, ultimately, to successfully plan, manage and drive the timely delivery of corporate initiatives.
• Review and understand core strengths and weaknesses across team members, and proactively engage, mentor, and define goals in order to capitalize upon strengths or mitigate gaps.   
• Effectively plan, communicate and conduct presentations (project milestones, risk mitigation, road maps, resource needs, technical information, etc.) for senior management, executives and stakeholders, while conveying and driving actionable items to your team.
• Work closely, partner, and collaborate with our principal architect to provide exceptional solutions that adhere to, or create, standards across teams.
• Manage resources for your team.
• Effectively communicate and resolve personnel issues on your team, while maintaining positive relationships, leveraging the various strengths of personalities involved, and general creative problem solving.
• Contribute to design reviews, code reviews and hands-on work in your respective domain.
• Manage day to day administrative tasks such as time off requests, sick days, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or related field
• Overall 10+ years of experience in software development of large-scale web applications.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a technical leadership role building exceptional products & managing high-performance teams.
• Experience with a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and good understanding of cloud-native services. 
• Experience with C# using .NET framework/.NET Core 
• Experience in delivering one or more core platform services, such as API gateway, identity management, authentication, messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ), workflow orchestration, job scheduling and search. 
• Exceptional communication and people skills, with a passion for product excellence, talent development and mentoring.
• Knowledge of full SDLC processes and best practices, Technical Design, Database paradigms, performance monitoring and instrumentation 
• Strong experience in Agile methodology, processes, and best practices.
• Solid understanding of modern SaaS web-based application key concepts and features.
• Understanding of QA standards and best practices, TDD concepts.
• Able to conceptualize overall components of technological stacks and pipelines, and convey such information to both technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Keeps abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and relevant areas of interest and applies such knowledge as appropriate.