Development Manager

• Ability to work in US EST hours (or at least until 2PM EST)
• Experience and successful track record of managing complex software development, delivery, and support.
• An ideal candidate has a strong technical background (worked as a lead developer and/or architect) before moving into a leadership role.
• At least 5 years of experience developing software in an Agile environment.
• Experience with .Net stack and Azure ecosystem (Azure Boards, CI/CD, Git Repos etc.),
• Experience with UX/UI design tools, React JS and react native preferred, but not necessary.
• Hands-on experience in both front-end (Either React or Angular) and back-end development highly preferred.
• Experience in developing SaaS/Cloud based products a must.
• People management experience with multiple teams located in different time zones.
• Strong technical knowledge of software development technologies & lifecycle including web apps, Rest APIs, microservices, and infrastructure components.
• This position will provide leadership on areas of execution for functional, non-functional, white box, integration and reliability testing for applications keeping automation in mind.
• Experience evaluating complex strategic initiatives, facilitating, influencing, and contributing to design.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to identify key issues, structure analysis and synthesize data, and provide recommendations effectively
• Strong leadership skills, team-oriented, collaborative, and flexible
• Effective interpersonal, listening, oral, written and presentation skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Masters Preferred
• Hire, mentor, and retain a best-of-class engineering team.
• Lead a group of highly talented developers and testers that are globally distributed.
• Continuously improve teams’ productivity, efficiency, and overall performance.
• Proactively invent ways to improve product quality, customer support and Operations.
• Meet stringent delivery deadlines.
• Coaching/Training team members as needed and providing timely feedback.
• Participate in solution design, code review and supporting our customers.
• Recruit and hire the right talent.
• Set expectations and goals for developers and testers.
• Perform performance reviews and coach employees.
• Lead and manage software development scrum teams – from inception to product rollout.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to mitigate risk and resolve dependencies.

Originally posted on Himalayas