Sr Manager, Software Development

Responsibilities

• Directs the software development lifecycle, including design, budgeting, and implementation.
• Provides early insights on the impact of new initiatives on existing systems and infrastructure.
• Manages a team of developers, third-party vendors, and interns.
• Sets clear goals, conducts performance reviews, and fosters a culture of accountability and continuous professional growth.
• Conducts architectural reviews and provides technical guidance for a polyglot environment.
• PREFERRED: Exposure to .Net (C#), Go (Golang), and modern Frontend technologies (React/Angular) to ensure scalable, high-performance delivery.
• Oversees on-call support processes and incident response protocols.
• Leads post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement long-term preventative measures.
• Researches and builds leading-edge technology solutions that are replicable and scalable, aligning with the company’s innovation mandate.
• Partners with Product, Security, and internal departments to identify customer needs and define technical objectives.
• Makes data-driven decisions using industry-standard metrics (such as DORA metrics) to track deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and time to restore service.

Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of software development experience and at least 3+ years in a supervisory/management role.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong architectural understanding of microservices, cloud-native patterns (AWS/Azure), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Process Expertise: Mastery of Agile/Scrum methodologies and experience maintaining high-availability systems in a CI/CD environment.
• Service Ownership: Proven experience managing production support, including setting SLAs/SLOs and managing rotation schedules for mission-critical services.
• Developer Experience: A focus on improving the "Developer Experience" (DevEx) by optimizing toolchains and reducing cognitive load for engineering teams.
• Communication: Ability to translate complex technical roadmaps into business value for non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Ability to quickly react to changes in priorities and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications - State Specific

• This role pays between $145k to $200k, and your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, responsibilities, experience, and location.
• At Frontdoor certain roles are eligible for additional rewards and incentives.
• Speak directly to your recruiter to learn more.

Benefits

• Includes health, wellbeing and financial components including: insurance for medical/pharmacy, dental, vision, life, and disability, weight loss and smoking cessation programs, matching 401(k) and ability to participate in our employee stock purchase plan.