In this role, you'll provide leadership within a highly agile development environment, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and cross-functional teamwork. You’ll play a crucial part in aligning engineering efforts with company goals, guiding both front-end and back-end teams through all stages of the development lifecycle—from concept through production. The ideal candidate brings a passion for mentorship, a strategic approach to problem-solving, and experience in an Agile setting, empowering their team to achieve excellence in both product quality and delivery.

What you’ll do:

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage people, including a clear understanding of team members’ roles, responsibilities, and skillsets.
• Develop and maintain a strategic vision to ensure the team possesses the right skillsets and capabilities to meet current and future business needs.
• Lead and manage a team of engineers through the technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment of Lightspeed software.
• Build and implement efficient processes for managing projects and sprints.
• Implement efficient testing processes to ensure continuous application/service quality and prevent regressions and disruptions.
• Deliver scalable, resilient, high-availability applications and services running on robust deployment architectures with comprehensive health monitoring/alerting.
• Maintain effective communication and collaboration with teams, both local and remote, in completing interdependent work items.
• Maintain clear visibility of project/feature status to program management, product management, and other collaborators.
• Attend to team morale; communicate effectively with team members to understand concerns and address them.
• Enhance team efficiency, sprint velocity, and feature turnaround time while promoting a satisfying work-life balance.
• Manage individual performance, employing ongoing performance feedback and mentorship.
• Work with each team member in identifying and making progress toward career development goals.

What you should have:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years in a technical or leadership role, ideally in a software, product, or technical environment.
• Demonstrated experience in managing the complete product or service development lifecycle, from initial planning through first release, with a focus on delivering projects on schedule.
• Strong knowledge of and experience using agile software development techniques.
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale, highly available web applications or services.
• Proven ability to effectively manage through common engineering management challenges.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and to maintain a high degree of technical involvement with your team and applications/services.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks simultaneously. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with and supporting JBoss/Wildfly Java application server.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science.
• Extensive experience in Java.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud-based service development, particularly using Amazon Web Services (AWS).