Software Development Manager

About the Role

Shipcom Wireless is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the Product Development team. You will coach and lead a team of Software Development Engineers to build highly scalable, multi-tenant services for the next generation of the Catamaran platform.

Responsibilities

• Being a player-coach who can engage and lead colleagues by setting examples, and giving guidance for new strategies of “out-of-the-box” thinking
• Dive deep into the details on business, operations and engineering
• Be a technical, detail-oriented leader who can build and grow an engineering organization
• Excel at hiring and developing strong software development engineers
• Deliver the most customer-centric experience
• Be able to look at problems in new ways, inventing simple solutions to complex problems
• Build and champion a psychologically safe culture as well as structure and develop diverse organizations
• Present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Take great care of the development needs, of your best-in-class team and cultivate an environment of belonging so high performing individuals can form outstanding teams that deliver results for our customers
• Discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience working directly within engineering teams
• 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• 3+ years of experience architecting and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• 3+ years of experience designing and developing solutions in distributed systems environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline. Master’s degree preferred
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with building web and mobile solutions
• Hands-on expertise with building and operating back-end services
• Experience partnering with product OR program management teams
• Exceptional customer relationship skills, written and verbal communication skills
• Being passionate about what you do and a get-things-done attitude to make your product and team successful