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Software Engineering Manager
Duties: Responsible for end-to-end execution and delivery of a software solution. Responsible for looking at the project/capability/feature as a whole and ensure that all functional and nonfunctional requirements are met. Work closely with the Director of Engineering to set strategic application architecture vision and execute against this vision. Partner closely with product managers, solution architects, business analysts, and the product owners to understand requirements and break down the work in a meaningful way for the development team. Lead a team of up to 9 engineers and expected to do hands-on coding. Execute and deliver software development projects in an agile environment including collaborating with business analysts, product, and other stakeholders on agile ceremonies. Understand the overall scope of the project or feature and the various technical requirements required for implementation. Technical leadership and mentoring. Working closely with the developers to provide direction on design and approach to solutions. Ensure that team members are following code quality standards and best practices. Perform design reviews, ensuring adherence to standards within all solutions. Conduct code reviews, ensuring adherence to standards. Issue accurate estimates on features, stories, and tasks. Provide guidance on career growth, mentoring, and help establish Objectives and Key Results definition for team members. Coach team members on estimation activities and best practices. Deliver features (as an individual contributor) while spending approximately 25-50% of work time in the code. Respond to production-related inquiries or issues.
Requirements: Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in Computer Science or related degree with 5 years of experience as Software Engineer or related. Experience in designing, building and maintaining web applications and leading a team of engineers on a software delivery team; proven technical leadership experience across related technologies and patterns such as JavaScript/Node.js, LAMP, Microservices, Python, AWS; experience with system-to-system integration and Enterprise Integration Patterns; strong understanding of database concepts, strong SQL skills and non-relational DB's concepts; reverse engineer system requirements based on existing systems and architectures; build out working proof of concepts in order to demonstrate and prove out design recommendations.