Manager/Director of Software Engineering

Company: SherlockTalent
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posted on: May 24, 2023

Job Description:

Role:Manager/Director of Software Engineering
Location:Hybrid - Weston, Florida
Compensation:$175K+ Depending on Experience
Job Type: Full Time/Perm
Job#: 7193
General Position Description:
The Manager/Director of Software Engineering will supervise the engineering team and technical strategy for our SaaS platform and the related applications covering multiple domains and architectures.
This is a full-time role, the ideal candidate will report to our CTO. We are actively searching for somebody with a strong software engineering background and a successful history of managing developers and projects.
Who We Want

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• Independent thinkers and self starters.
  
• Someone who enjoys solving complex problems and is able to think on their feet.
  
• A dedicated team member who thrives in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure projects are completed on time and meet expectations.
  
• A highly collaborative individual. Someone who builds and leverages cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information and use cases, and to develop the best solutions.
  
• Be willing and able to roll up your sleeves and lead by example.
  
  Responsibilities
  
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  • Define and enforce coding standards and development and deployment methodologies and processes including team agreements.
    
  • In conjunction with the DevOps team, monitor and ensure platform stability across multiple production and non-production development environments.
    
  • Develop, monitor and report on engineering KPIs as related to team and individual performance.
    
  • Rapidly gain a deep understanding of the current ecosystem, including system integrations, business rules, and operational management flows.
    
  • Lead, guide, support and manage a team of software engineers of various experience levels to build state-of-the-art components and features while ensuring adherence to development best practices, CI/CD, and automation.
    
  • Establish strong partnerships with product owners, and gain a deep understanding of the different types of end-users and their needs.
    
  • Maintain top delivery standards by building robust, secure, and quality software that meets the needs of the business.
    
  • Manage release schedules for both production patches and regular releases.
    
  • Provide technical leadership, guidance and support to the engineering team.
    
  • Work with our Customer Service team to troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
    
  • Recruit, interview, hire and train top talent and build a high performing team of engineers focused on continuous improvement. Perform evaluations, resolve problems, provide open communication and recommend discipline and/or termination when appropriate.
    
  • Develop a collaborative and dynamic team operating agreement to reflect objectives and responsibilities of team members based on roles.
    
    Qualifications
    
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    • BS in engineering, Computer Science or related field.
      
    • 10+ years of previous software engineering management experience, with a minimum of 5 direct reports.
      
    • Hands on experience designing, developing and architecting complex backend systems.
      
    • Strong technical credentials, preferably with previous hands-on architectural or distributed systems development in a LAMP environment
      
    • Experience in delivering testable, high-quality software with many dependencies.
      
    • Familiarity with reservation systems and / or travel industry booking systems is desired.
      
    • At least 5 years of experience in Agile software development, including SCRUM, Kanban, Scrumban, etc.
      
    • Experience with complex digital transformations.
      
    • A blend of experienceincluding at least some of the following technical experience:
      
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      • Experience in LAMP stack development and related frameworks. Experience with the Symfony framework and / or Laravel is a plus.
        
      • Experience with Angular (preferred) and / or React including experience with SPAs and associated frameworks.
        
      • 3+ years of experience with AWS.
        
      • Experience with TDD and / or BDD is a must.
        
        
        
        Our Current Stack and Tools
        
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        • LAMP
          
        • Angular
          
        • Python
          
        • Node
          
        • AWS and its various services
          
        • MongoDB
          
        • JIRA / Bitbucket (git)
          
        • Serverless
          
          Compensation and Benefits
          
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          • Base salary is commensurate with work experience.
            
          • 10 paid vacation days
            
          • 5 paid sick days
            
          • 1 day off for your birthday (actual birthday)
            
          • 6 paid holidays
            
          • 401K
            
          • We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc. as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
            
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            "U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time."

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