Senior Software Development Manager

Expected

• Java

• Docker

• AWS

• Jenkins

• Spring WebFlux

• Kubernetes

Optional

• Java 11

• Kibana

• gRPC

• Caffeine

• Elasticsearch

• PostgreSQL

• Kafka

• Redis

• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team. Your interest in computer science has not faded as you moved into a leadership role and you are still comfortable with technical details.

• Your written and verbal communication skills are top-notch. You can distill key points out of complex technical descriptions to share with non-technical stakeholders, adapting your language and style of communication depending on the audience. You communicate through data, dates, and facts using emotion judiciously to motivate and inspire.

• You lead by example and do not consider yourself above individual contributor work. You are comfortable teaching best practices by showing people, not just telling people. Teams follow your lead because you are an inspirational leader, because you are right, and because you can show everyone high-quality examples of your own work.

• Given a larger business goal, you are able to facilitate ramping up of an existing team or building a new team, including estimating the needed skills and team size, defining processes, team structure, and means of collaboration. You have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to hit these goals.

• You have demonstrated the ability to make great hiring decisions as is evidence by the performance of engineers on your team, and you are able to retain and develop the best engineers.

• You have demonstrated the capacity to make decisions for more than one engineering team or functional area showing that your judgment is fungible.

• Building and managing services for consumer-facing applications that are highly available, scalable, and resilient to failure.

• Experience in building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.

• Proficient in Java and a few other languages.

• Persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.

• Micro-service based architectures using gRPC and Kafka for interservice communication.

• Experience in ERP/SAP system integration, SOA, webMethods, ESB

• Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional style of programming and experience implementing with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Node.js, vert.

• Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.