Manager, Software Engineering

Role Description

Responsible for delivery of a specific product with ability to lead a small software engineering team and provide hands-on guidance in coding, architecture, and system design.

• Lead technical discussions, facilitate code reviews, and drive innovation.
• Actively involved and hands-on with writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with coding standards.
• Guide and review team code to ensure clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Regularly evaluate team performance, technical capabilities, provide colleague feedback, and escalate to leadership as needed.
• Implement design changes to improve quality, performance, cost reduction, and standardization through analysis of designs and problem-solving techniques.
• Define architecture of software solution.
• Respond to direct or indirect customer inquiries regarding function and design, and attend customer meetings.
• Oversee day-to-day operations and lead a team of colleagues.
• Plan, delegate and direct the team’s day-to-day work to achieve operational targets or objectives with contribution to the immediate results for the team or department.
• Communicate policies, practices and procedures within immediate area of responsibility to stakeholders within the team.
• Identify and lead team-level quality and process improvement initiatives.
• Provide input on staffing decisions for the team.
• Implement policy and procedure changes determined by leadership.
• Lead Scrum meetings.
• Implement quality frameworks, lead end of sprint and end of project retrospective meetings and provide follow-up updates to leadership.
• May conduct interviews for job candidates. No formal hire/fire authority.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of software development experience.
• At least 10 years of experience in:
  • Development in C#.Net (Net Framework and .NET Core)
  • SQL Server or other relational database systems
  • Source Code Management
• At least 5 years of experience in:
  • Cloud Computing services including AWS or Azure
  • MVC design pattern
  • Automated Unit Testing
  • Automated deployment tools including Jenkins
• At least 2 years of experience in direct supervision of Software Developers or Engineers.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, Scrum, and design documentation tools including Confluence, UML, and Swagger.
• Experience with testing frameworks including MSTest and NUnit.
• Experience with JavaScript, REST APIs, OpenAPI, and CI/CD tools.
• Experience conducting formal performance reviews through Workday or similar platforms.
• Experience correcting server resources and making application changes through techniques including caching, algorithm optimizations, and database optimizations.
• Experience utilizing Agile tools including Jira, and collaboration tools like Teams or Slack.
• Experience with project management tools including MS Project, Trello or Wrike.
• Experience with pair-programming.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English.

Requirements

• Position is 100% remote.
• Up to 10% of domestic travel may be required.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons.
• Compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.