Software Development Manager (Remote)

About the role

GetixHealth is seeking an experienced Manager of Software Development to lead and develop a Scrum-based software development team while strengthening software delivery practices, planning processes, and overall development capabilities. The role focuses on transitioning the development organization from a reactive, ticket-driven environment to a proactive, organized, measurable, and strategically aligned software delivery model. This is a full‑time remote position with up to 10% travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a Scrum‑based software development team.
• Establish clear priorities, expectations, accountability, and performance standards.
• Partner closely with the Lead Developer and other technical contributors.
• Identify staffing, technical skill, and resource needs.
• Coach team members toward greater ownership, problem‑solving, and strategic thinking.
• Strengthen the team's adoption and consistent use of Agile and Scrum practices.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Improve work intake, prioritization, estimation, capacity planning, and workflow management.
• Help move the organization from reactive ticket fulfillment toward planned and measurable development.
• Balance production support, technical debt, enhancements, and strategic development initiatives.
• Establish and monitor meaningful development and delivery KPIs (sprint predictability, cycle time, throughput, defect trends, backlog health, work aging).
• Improve delivery predictability, quality, productivity, and accountability.
• Develop realistic delivery plans based on business priorities, technical complexity, and available capacity.
• Communicate priorities, risks, dependencies, progress, and resource constraints to stakeholders.
• Partner with Product, Project Management, QA, Business Analysis, Infrastructure, Security, and other stakeholders.
• Translate organizational priorities into actionable development plans.
• Ensure solutions align with business needs, architecture, security requirements, and quality standards.
• Provide technical leadership within a primarily Microsoft/.NET environment.
• Support sound technical decision‑making while allowing developers to remain the hands‑on technical experts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in software development, software engineering, or application delivery.
• Meaningful experience leading software developers or multidisciplinary technology teams.
• Experience managing or leading a Scrum‑based software development team.
• Demonstrated experience improving Agile/Scrum practices, particularly within an organization that is still developing its Agile maturity.
• Experience establishing and utilizing KPIs, delivery metrics, and performance measures.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), release management, quality practices, and production support.
• Ability to improve planning, prioritization, workflow management, and delivery predictability.
• Ability to balance immediate production/support needs with longer‑term strategic development initiatives.
• Strong communication, coaching, problem‑solving, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Flexible leadership style with the ability to adapt previous experience to the needs and culture of a new organization.

Skills

• Strong preference for hands‑on knowledge/prior development experience with Microsoft .NET / .NET Core, C#, T‑SQL / SQL Server, Entity Framework, ASP.NET / .NET MVC, Angular and/or React, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or Jira.
• Knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Understanding of application security and modern software engineering practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Benefits: variety of medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Life & Disability Coverage: company‑paid Basic Life and AD&D insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, with voluntary coverage options.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan: eligible employees can participate, including company matching opportunities.
• Paid Time Off: PTO begins accruing from first day of employment.
• Flexible Benefit Options: variety of benefit options to meet individual and family needs.

Pay

Salary: $140,000‑$150,000 annually.