Software Engineering Manager

General summary of the position:

Siemens Digital Platforms is looking for a talented development manager to be part of a group that is building customer facing applications for support, learning, marketing, and documentation platforms.

The Development Manager will hands-on lead development projects and will be responsible for leading developers, formed into a self-organizing team that focuses on deliver brand specific sites rapidly with high quality that generates demand. They will help build an initial versions of new “constellation” sites and to add new capabilities to existing constellation sites. They have an extensive technical background in web development.

They have a deep and extensive process knowledge and understand how to develop and optimize a repeatable, multi-organizational process for new site deliver. This manager is a working manager that is able to support the team, but also support the business through direct execution of tasks, training, onboarding, and developing next practices. They coach their team members to look for and execute solutions. They are allergic to the “it’s not my job” mentality.

Essential functions:

1. Develop the team based on people management plan while leveraging various interviewing techniques to ensure you are bringing on talented team members with potential to grow within the organization and even across other orgs.
2. Develop and support the skills, both technical and soft skills and capabilities of the team members to ensure there is enough coverage of the key responsibilities of the team based on the business’ needs.
3. Actively empower and delegate responsibility and ownership to team members wherever possible.
4. Identify and generate plans to ensure the tools and technology the team needs are in place and meeting key requirements.
5. Work closely with peers and the Chief Architect to fully understand the business process and requirements.
6. Analyze and resolve technical and application problems. Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
7. Develop code managed infrastructure through deployment scripts such as Cloudformation, Chef, Puppet.
8. Write APM tests for continuous monitoring and alerting leveraging AWS Cloudwatch.
9. Implement new customer facing features and applications in ReactJS.
10. Develop supporting APIs leveraging ExpressJS, NodeJS, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, AWS SAM, GraphQL.
11. Develop unit tests including use of Mocha, Jest, Chai.
12. Develop in Git workflow participating in code peer reviews.
13. Implement build and deployment scripts including setting up CI/CD pipelines.
14. Develop to 12-factor application guidelines including developing for performance optimization and scale.

Skills and abilities:

1. Experience in both architecture and implementation-level software design.
2. Experience in requirements capture, analysis techniques and process improvement approaches.
3. Experience in web development.
4. Strong process focus, with specific experience in continuous delivery and self-organizing teams.
5. Proficient agile project management expertise with experience in managing complex stakeholder situations, changing scope and complex technical landscapes.

Scope:

1. Responsible for directly managing full-time individual contributor employees.
2. Responsible for mentoring and managing Co-op students.

Education and Experience:

1. Bachelor of Science in computer science or related field.
2. 5+ years of broad and deep working experience as a Software Developer.
3. 1+ years of Agile training or experience strongly preferred.
4. Front-end web application development using MVC design pattern.
5. API development.
6. Primary responsibility is code development, agile methodology, team environment.
7. Advanced use of Javascript including view frameworks in multiple projects.
8. Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.
9. Ability to interpret ambiguous business requirements.
10. Knowledge of SDLC, serverless architecture, design patterns, building 12-factor applications.
11. Experience with agile methodologies and Git workflow.

This position will be subject to U.S. export control requirements under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employment is contingent on either verifying the U.S. Person status or obtaining any necessary export license.

Why us?

Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

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The salary range for this position is $121,400 to $218,500 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate’s work location as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: In addition, this position is eligible for time off in accordance with Company policies, including paid sick leave, paid parental leave, PTO (for non-exempt employees) or non-accrued flexible vacation (for exempt employees).

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