Software Development Manager, Identity Services

We are seeking a motivated, intelligent software development manager to lead an engineering team in the design and development of the next generation of cloud-enabled employment screening services and products. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of successful large-scale project delivery, demonstrating the ability to coordinate cross-team collaboration and guidance.

The position of Software Development Manager is 100% remote, supporting a distributed North American team.

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of engineers, ensuring members have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision
• Establish policies & processes to optimize delivery, encourage innovation, & ensure applications are well monitored & maintained
• Independently architect and design large-scale systems
• Partner with the Product Owners and key stakeholders to plan, support, and release software development and application enhancements
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels
• Coordinate with support team to diagnose and resolve problems
• Invent novel solutions to challenging technical problems
• Drive proof of concepts using different platform components used by Sterling and third-party vendor systems
• Help define his or her own role in the delivery of the product/service design

What You Should Have

• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in an engineering leadership role
• Previous experience (5+ years) as an individual contributor with hands-on experience as a full stack engineer in a .NET environment (C#, Visual Studio, Web API) with MSSQL (or equivalent RDMS)
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Strong track record of leadership and technological innovation and success
• Experience developing scalable consumer cloud-based applications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Experience mentoring with a successful track record in developing team members

Key Skills

• Experience with AWS services, including but not limited to:
• API Gateway
• ECS
• DynamoDB
• SQS
• CloudWatch
• Route 53
• EventBridge
• Experience building applications using Infrastructure as Code (IAC) methodologies and technologies like CloudFormation (or Terraform)
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines through Jenkins (or similar)
• Solid understanding of least privilege security principles