Our client is a rapidly growing digital start-up and searching for a strong Development Manager, who will be charged with helping to build and lead a high-performance engineering team for a SaaS application using an Agile Scrum development methodology, with frequent deploys, and test driven development.

Candidates should have proven management experience but still be active programmers with code-review and prototyping level strengths in a modern scripting language (Ruby, Python,) Experience with MongoDB a plus.

Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

·         Oversee the end-to-end software development organization including development, deployment and quality assurance.

·         Ensure that software is as robust, rock-solid and as fast as possible

·         Identify, assess and mitigate risk to the business

·         Lead an organization of employees and a like number of consultants

·         Establish technology standards and ensure compliance across all product lines

·         Must be able to lead the development of systems that are “Always Up, Always Fast, and Never Fail”

·         Ensure teams are using the appropriate tools and processes in the most effective manner

·         Creating and managing the production of scorecards to be used to measure the effectiveness of the development organization

·         Making process improvements as needed to assist the business in achieving its goals and objectives, leveraging best practices and professional experiences

·         Collaborating closely with and assisting technical operations teams as required to ensure timely delivery of new systems, that are fast and robust

·         Maintain broad strategic knowledge of the organization, initiatives, applications, systems, etc.

Qualifications:

·         At least 8 years of successful IT delivery experience, especially in large-scale, robust, fault-tolerant internet environments with at least 2 years of management experience.

·         Experience in the following areas:

o    Agile development methodologies

o    Public facing web applications, ideally in a B2B environment.

o    Scalable, robust, interrelated, high availability systems

o    Agile development techniques such as BDD, Pair Programming, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Iterative Development, etc.

·         Proven software development capability including hands-on coding expertise

·         Strong leadership and people management skills including demonstrated ability to coach and mentor employees

·         Proven ability to work with the business and IT professionals in a dynamic, fast-paced start up environment

·         Strong leadership skills and the ability to passionately create a shared vision for the delivery organization

·         Ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments and technology

·         Excellent problem solving skills with strong attention to detail

·         Bachelors degree, or equivalent experience, required

·         Advanced degree in computer science or related (or equivalent experience)