Manager, Software Engineering

Job description

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description How Will You Make an Impact Seeking a strategic technical leader with expertise in process innovation, product development, AI integration, and platform engineering. This position encompasses more than just engineering; it demands systems thinking, technical proficiency, and the capacity to lead implementation teams while crafting vision and adoption strategy. Roles & Responsibilities: Hands-on management of a team of highly skilled software developers, testers and domain experts-ensuring great execution of Agile/SCRUM processes and repeatable, predictable, and high-quality delivery of software solutions. Provide leadership, mentoring, resource planning, and drive the successful growth of the team. Participate in and lead the design and development of new software and/or extensive software revisions. Work with the product owner to define technical requirements and priorities then develop user stories, designs, and development tasks to be delegated to the team. Be responsible for a successful conclusion to sprints and releases. Identify areas to collaborate on across the different domains in order to drive consistency, technology and process sharing, as well as code re-use. Represent the team in cross-organizational development forums as well as customer requirements gathering and software validation and training sessions. Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand sophisticated problems and resolve them efficiently, use prior knowledge and experience to provide functional and technical support and leadership to colleagues. Participate in training and orienting new software engineers as they join the team. Candidate Requirement: Education & Experience levels: Bachelors of Engineering/Computer Science or master's degree or equivalent with 10+ years of overall Experience. Skills Knowledge & Experience: 10+ years of overall experience or played a technical leadership role recently. Proven track record in developing and building scalable, cost-efficient applications with Java based web applications. 3 + years of experience in building customer centric distributed software. 2+ years of experience leading a development team in an Agile/SCRUM setting, with proven ability in project/task estimation, delegation, and management. 2+ years of experience in people management. Very comfortable and experienced with designing object-oriented software and services deployed in a client server or (preferably) cloud setting. Data modelling, design and database programming using a variety of relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, SQL). Experience working with geographically distributed teams. A highly motivated fast learner who can self-start and “resolve needs determining. Able to build deeper and meaningful relationship with team members, be a coach and mentor for their career path, could articulate clearly thoughts and able lead team from the front. Excellent verbal and written communication ski