Application Development Team Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead a distributed software development organization that encompasses legacy, modern, and cloud-native systems.

• Provide comprehensive leadership for teams engaged in Java/Spring, React, Python, SQL, AWS, and Kubernetes.

• Direct and assist geographically distributed development teams across various applications and workstreams.

• Take ownership of project planning, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, scope, timeline, and budget.

• Oversee contract obligations and ensure delivery commitments are met.

• Facilitate agile ceremonies and manage product and team backlogs effectively.

• Lead sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and tracking utilizing Jira and Confluence.

• Define and uphold standards for coding, architecture, testing, documentation, and code reviews.

• Ensure secure development practices, automated testing, and deployment pipelines across technology stacks.

• Promote DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, automated quality checks, and continuous delivery within AWS and Kubernetes environments.

• Enable efficient AI-assisted solution design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and troubleshooting.

• Define and enforce human-in-the-loop AI controls concerning security, privacy, traceability, and accountability.

• Apply compliance, security, and contractual requirements while overseeing code, peer, and release reviews.

• Collaborate with customers, product owners, architects, security teams, infrastructure, and other stakeholders.

• Communicate decisions, progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Utilize delivery, quality, and cycle-time metrics to drive modernization, cloud migration, and process enhancements.

• Mentor developers and team members, fostering learning, AI upskilling, and career development.

• Set objectives, prioritize workloads, balance capacity, and mitigate bottlenecks and burnout.

• Conduct performance evaluations, offer feedback, acknowledge achievements, and address concerns.

• Cultivate an inclusive, respectful, and high-trust culture among remote team members.

• Support hiring, onboarding, retention, and succession planning initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.

• Over 5 years of documented management or leadership experience.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience throughout the complete software development lifecycle, including agile delivery.

• Experience in leading senior developers and/or multidisciplinary application teams, including remote or distributed teams.

• Strong organizational, prioritization, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving abilities.

• Practical experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, React, Python, AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, and relevant integration patterns.

• Experience working with AI-assisted development tools across design, implementation, testing, code review, documentation, and troubleshooting.

• Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud-native architectures, APIs, containers, automated testing, and secure development practices.

• Ability to articulate architecture, trade-offs, status, risks, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (required).

• U.S. citizenship.

• Capability to successfully complete a Public Trust background investigation.

• Remote work location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for medical plans, including those with Health Savings Accounts.

• Options for dental plans.

• Vision plan available.

• 401(k) plan with both pre-tax and post-tax contributions and company matching.

• Flexible work weeks where feasible.

• Paid vacation, sick, and personal time off.

• Paid holidays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Military leave support.

• Bereavement leave offered.

• Jury duty leave provided.

• 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new employees, prorated based on the hire date.

• 10 paid holidays per year, prorated according to the hire date.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits available.

• Life insurance offered.

• Coverage for accidental death and dismemberment insurance.

• Personal accident insurance provided.

• Critical illness insurance available.

• Business travel and accident insurance offered.

• Opportunity for remote work.