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Software Development Manager

Stream Companies · West Chester, PA · 1 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time

About The Role

Stream Companies seeks a proactive, hands-on Software Development Manager to lead their industry-leading marketing technology (MarTech) SaaS platform. This role focuses on empowering automotive retailers and car dealerships to better engage, convert, and serve modern car shoppers.

What You'll Do

  • People Management & Team Execution: Manage and mentor engineers, conduct regular 1-on-1s, and foster a collaborative team culture focused on delivering value to automotive dealers.

  • Player-Coach Technical Build: Actively participate in the build. You aren't just managing—you are in the code, shipping features, building POCs, and helping the team solve complex MarTech and web-scale engineering challenges.

  • Data & AI Implementation: Execute the expansion of generative AI features and our data ecosystem under direction from leadership. Help build out platform capabilities that enhance dealership-to-buyer interactions.

  • Disciplined Agile Delivery: Drive operational excellence across both build teams. Keep teams focused and accountable to strict 2-week sprint cycles, remove daily blockers, size work accurately, and ensure high-quality, continuous delivery.

  • VP & Cross-Functional Alignment: Work closely with the VP, taking direct strategic direction to execute roadmap priorities and ensure tight frontend-to-backend integration with UX/UI design.

Qualifications

  • Technical Stack & Ecosystem: Strong, practical experience building and maintaining web applications within our specific tech stack (PHP, Laravel, Vue.js 3.0, AWS, Snowflake).

  • Core Application Stack: PHP, Laravel, and Vue.js 3.0.

  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (emphasis on serverless architecture and Lambdas).

  • Data & AI Ecosystem: Claude/Anthropic, Snowflake.

  • Engineering & People Leadership: 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a hands-on people management role overseeing software developers, ideally within a B2B SaaS or MarTech environment.

  • Automotive Retail / MarTech Familiarity (Plus): Prior experience building software for automotive dealerships, retail technology, or customer-facing marketing platforms is a strong plus.

  • Player-Coach Capability: Demonstrated experience balancing direct management responsibilities with writing code, conducting technical reviews, and actively building features.

  • Practical Snowflake & AI Exposure (Plus): Hands-on experience working with Snowflake beyond basic warehousing, including exposure to building data pipelines and integrating AI/LLM components (e.g., RAG, vector embeddings).

  • Agile Sprint Management: Proven ability to lead development teams through disciplined 2-week agile sprints, keeping velocity predictable and removing blockers.

  • Collaborative Communicator: Ability to take direct guidance from executive leadership, translate product requirements into clear developer tasks, and collaborate across functional teams.

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