Software Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team to develop quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street
• Responsible for ensuring a team’s success, growth, and output
• Providing training, guidance, and mentorship to individuals on the team
• Participating in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
• Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies
• Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity
• Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce
• Leads team with occasional guidance and training from division lead.
• Sets clear expectations for direct reports and meets weekly with direct reports one-on-one.
• Develops plans for team members’ growth into a long-term role, but still requires some assistance from division lead.
• Proactively fosters a respectful workplace culture within the team
• Ensures team processes are followed and effective, including processes to ensure quality code deploys
• Is a role model for good coding practices
• Can function effectively as a L2 SDE
• Sets high expectations for team, effectively communicates those expectations, and follows up on them
• Effectively shares positive/negative feedback in a way that encourages ownership and action
• Identifies tasks, actions, and responsibilities for immediate direct reports to help them grow in capability
• Accountable to others and expects accountability from others.
• Drives large projects to ship
• Seen as technical leader across large domain
• Coordinates with others to deliver products that require multiple components

Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to provide constructive feedback to team members
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
• Ability to resolve conflict within and across teams and drive consensus to achieve common goals
• Ability to provide technical feedback and guidance on architecture, code review, and best practices
• 7+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of experience leading a development team.
• Demonstrated knowledge of computer science fundamentals - Object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Fluent in Java or similar object-oriented language
• Experience in implementing and consuming large-scale web services
• Strong problem-solving skills

Desired Experience and Skills

• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Ability to contribute to software design documentation, presentation, sequence diagrams
• Ability to present complex technical designs in a concise manner.
• Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building highly scalable distributed software systems
• Professional experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experience taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch