Modernizing Medicine is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to provide technical leadership and governance of development activities, ensuring quality and alignment with architectural standards. The role aims to improve the health of the engineering organization, guide software development practices, and manage product roadmap deliverables.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams in a web-based application/service environment.
- Strong commitment to quality, architecture and maintainability.
- Able to effectively direct and mentor others in engineering disciplines and best practices.
- Understanding of object-oriented design, SQL and relational databases.
- Experience building scalable, globally accessible web applications and platforms.
- Understanding of application lifecycle management tools for source control, continuous integration and deployment, and various areas of testing (unit, integration, load, performance and vulnerability).
- 3+ years of experience with the Agile/Scrum development methodology.
Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership and governance of development activities consistent with architectural and software development standards.
- Contributing to the ongoing development of standards and processes to ensure quality.
- Directing and collaborating with subordinates, providing and/or clarifying technical approaches.
- Assisting in the overall development of technical skills.
- Contributing to defining architecture and technology.
- Auditing development work, and overseeing the proper implementation thereof.
- Working with software engineers to develop and/or confirm architecture decisions, design decisions, and implementation approaches.
Other
- Human resource management of Software Developers.
- Complement the Director of Software Engineering in providing technical leadership, collaborating with architects and software engineers towards the development of software products and ensuring employee growth and retention goals.
- Track and enhance the overall health of the engineering organization.
- Work with internal customers and product management to identify and clarify product requirements.
- Manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap.
- Direct team members to focus on highest-priority/highest-impact projects and development tasks.
- Lead recruiting efforts.
- Identify, review, and incorporate opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies and drive the adoption of high value improvements within the team.
- Manage time effectively with minimal supervision to accurately document solutions, scope projects while ensuring that commitments are met.
- Collaborate with operations, QA, support and product to resolve production issues.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills, adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership.
- Able to proactively engage with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using critical thinking, analysis skills and best practices.
- Able to influence and energize others toward a common vision.
- Highly self-motivated and self-directed.
- Strong project management and product lifecycle skills.
- Able to understand the value of change and is willing to pivot direction to embrace different ways of working.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment and leading subordinates.
