This is a remote position; however, the candidate must reside within 30 miles of one of the following locations: Boston, MA; San Francisco Bay Area, CA; and Portland, ME.
As a Senior Software Development Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers within Mobility Engineering. Our highly autonomous team embraces Agile development principles and follows an embedded DevOps model to manage the entire software lifecycle—from development to release, maintenance, and operations.
We work hard, support one another, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. We take pride in the ownership of our results, valuing accountability and collaboration (leave your ego at the door!). Our team strikes a balance between moving fast and ensuring compliance with the highly regulated nature of the payments industry.
In this role as a senior development lead, you'll be involved in planning, designing, developing, and testing software systems or applications for enhancements and new projects. Our tech stack includes Java, Spring Boot, APIs, and SQL.
You should be passionate about writing code, enjoy solving complex problems, and thrive in an integrated software engineering environment. With a focus on high-quality delivery and an eye for detail, you will embrace new technologies, frameworks, and development practices. You'll manage a team of motivated software developers, driving results in a fast-paced environment.
How you'll make an impact
- Focus on backend development, including integrations and the API suite.
- Spend at least 50% of your time contributing to coding, design, development, testing, and code reviews.
- Lead a high-performing backend development team spread across the US and Brazil.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, and product managers to understand requirements, prioritize tasks, and develop high-quality solutions.
- Manage production on-call support, handling incident triage, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), troubleshooting, and code fixes.
- Create, prioritize, communicate, and manage roadmaps, project plans, and commitments.
- Report to management on development, quality, operations, and system performance.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics, while adopting best practices.
- Lead and mentor the scrum team, stepping into the role of Scrum Master when necessary.
- Promote test-driven development and take responsibility for any stage of the software development lifecycle as needed.
Experience you'll bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience developing applications in Java.
- 3+ years of experience managing teams.
- Expertise in backend services, APIs, data processing, and web applications (Spring Boot, GraphQL, REST).
- Proficiency in designing and developing event-driven microservices architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka.
- Strong skills in data engineering, ingestion, storage, processing, and databases (SQL, Postgres, Liquibase).
- Experience with technical design and user story creation (JIRA, Confluence).
- Familiarity with production on-call support.
- Demonstrable CI/CD experience with exposure to DevOps.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and a passion for automation.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of building strong relationships across diverse organizations.
It would be nice if you
- Experience with AWS cloud services.
- Familiarity with test automation frameworks for Java (e.g., Cucumber, Robot).
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed teams via virtual channels.