Manager, Software Engineering

As Manager of Software Engineering, you will be part of a team building the best omni-channel platform for selling connected devices and services. You will be responsible for managing a team of software developers and automation test engineers and guiding them through each stage of the software development process leveraging Agile/Scrum. You will also be responsible for developing and enforcing our coding and testing standards and best practices, reviewing code, and training developers to deliver code with a high emphasis on code quality and performance.

WHAT YOU WILL BE LIVING AND BREATHING EACH DAY:

• Participates in design and development planning meetings to help determine the best software solution that meets business requirements
• Partners with entire scrum team to come up with software design and release schedule leveraging agile software development practices
• Partners with other teams such as product management, dev ops, business services, and third party partners to drive company initiative
• Uses technical knowledge of advanced development concepts, practices and procedures to help deliver software solutions at web scale
• Partners with technical leads in leading design reviews with the architecture steering committee
• Manages risk to release timelines by closely collaborating with the scrum team and product owner to get past blocking issues
• Helps analyze and resolve any code performance or scalability issues as reported by the performance engineering team
• Drives the adoption of best-in-class open-source libraries and tools to help deliver enterprise-scale implementations
• Helps ensure that engineering quality goals (test coverage and automation) are met or exceeded by their scrum teams as part of the definition of done.
• Identifies and develops skills in new technologies necessary for the growth and success of the software development team
• Partner with Consensus and Target Talent Acquisition to recruit, interview, select and hire team members
• Mentor, grow and develop the careers of all direct reports
• Provide coaching, training, and opportunities for growth to improve skills
• Ensure team members have the skills and resources to get things done
• Set clear, meaningful, challenging, and attainable goals and expectations that are aligned with company
• Empower employees to make decisions and to take responsibility for their jobs and goals
• Identify the potential in staff and take opportunities to apply and develop that potential
• Lead by example, set standards for professional behavior, stay abreast of new technologies and news
• Foster a positive work environment where staff feels appreciated and is motivated to do their best
• Helps resolve complex or sensitive disagreements and conflicts
• Partners with HR to clearly understand all applicable company policies, laws, rules, and regulations

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:

• Build customer-facing, database-driven applications in a SaaS environment
• Manage a team of software developers
• Experience with multiple languages. We use : Java, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML 5
• Experience with modern architectural building blocks: Unix/Linux, Databases (relational and document), and Web Services (REST or SOAP)
• Experience delivering software using an Agile methodology (eg Scrum)
• Experienced in web/ecommerce architectures, technologies, object oriented principles and design
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Technical Skills: MS Office, JIRA, Gradle, IntellaJ IDEA, Jenkins, GIT, Find Bugs, Fortify, Spring Plugins
• Bachelor's Degree or equivilent experience