Software Development Manager

Reporting to the Manager, Software Engineering and DevOps, this position is responsible for leading web, mobile and hub development teams and projects, excluding QA and UI/UX design teams.  This position will be a player/coach, rolling up their sleeves in the achievement of deliverables as well as coaching the team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead responsibilities:

• Run the daily stand up for the dev teams
• Maintain the sprint board
• Ensure all dev work is captured in stories, bug and sub-tasks
• Ensure all stories have accurate points and all tasks have up-to-date effort in hours
• Help team overcome technical hurdles and connect team members with any relevant parties on or outside the team
• Careful code review of all developer code during the pull request process, make suggestions for improvement in the PRs
• Individual meetings with developers for coaching and mentoring
• Ensure testing tasks are added where needed
• Work with external party to maintain healthy build pipelines for all platform.

Sprint planning and sprint operations

• Entry of team capacity
• Maintain calculation of team and individual member velocity 
• Drive the story estimation process
• help the team task out each story with effort estimates
• Help the team break stories up into front end and back end (hub) stories
• Meet with product owner/BA team on a regular basis
• Meet with UI/UX design team on a regular basis
• Ensure features being built line up with UI/UX designs and business expectations
• Communicate risks or potential to miss commitments to product owner

Release and Feature Planning for the year ahead

• Help define release feature scope for year in advance
• Help estimate and define stories and points for planned features
• Make high level commitments based on team capacity and velocity
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Release and Deployment

• Identify and tag stories and bugs for the next release, and ensure they line up with expectations
• Define and communicate release notes
• Communicate if any items cannot be delivered 
• Work with developers and the QA team to identify the level of code changes and the corresponding level of regression testing that is needed
• Help QA identify platforms that need to be tested and in what order

Design

• Help the dev team with high, mid and low-level design to ensure it lines up with existing patterns and architecture 
• Design new features with specifications at the database, API data layer, service, and controller layers
• Help identify required endpoints with an  API-first general-purpose approach
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Coding

Implement stories and bugs when time permits. The main focus is to help other developers succeed in their code.

Technical Currency

• Allocate time for your own training on new tech
• Maintain up-to-date platforms and tooling
• Encourage team training

New developer onboarding

• Participate in the tech interview process 
• Coordinate with the right parties to onboard new developers
• Coordinate creation of new virtual workstations
• Prescribe training
• Train them on our apps, dev processes, and coding patterns
• Coordinate new developers with other developers for tech tours and knowledge transfer

Full Stack Developer Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain all types of applications using .NET 6, .NET 8, Xamarin Forms, .NET MAUI, Blazor, Angular, typescript, CSS, and C#.
• Integrate and manage Azure platform services, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, and other Azure services to build scalable and robust applications.
• Utilize Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Work on SQL database design, development, and management, using T-SQL.
• Collaborate with teams to implement new features and ensure the highest level of performance and security.
• Adhere to best practices and design patterns in software development.
• Employ GIT for version control and source code management.
• Engage in Agile methodologies and participate in all phases of the software development process. 

Requirements and skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Several years of experience in designing and building complex software systems.
• Proficiency in current Microsoft development tools and technologies, including Visual Studio 2022, .NET 6/8, Xamarin Forms,NET MAUI, Angular 16, TypeScript, C#, and T-SQL.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services and understanding of various Azure platform services.
• Expertise in software design patterns, best practices, and Agile development methodologies.
• Proficient in using GIT for source control.
• Real-world experience working with CI/CD
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a track record of working under tight deadlines.