Development Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead and guide the Development teams.

• Convert product requirements into internal engineering development plans, task breakdowns, and backlog commitments, ensuring effective execution.

• Oversee the processes for bug triage and feature requests.

• Ensure that development activities align with the priorities established by product management.

• Monitor the progress of tasks, epics, and releases, ensuring adherence to deadlines.

• Identify obstacles and facilitate their prompt resolution.

• Provide consistent updates regarding development status, risks, and timelines.

• Ensure that quality standards are achieved prior to release.

• Coordinate efforts with engineering: development, QA, and technical documentation across the team.

• Manage the QA function for all products.

• Maintain development processes and enhance execution efficiency.

• Define and uphold best practices for coding, testing, and deployment.

• Own and manage a backlog, ensuring it is clean, actionable, and current.

• Maintain team capacity, workload balance, engagement, and performance standards, while managing human resources to align with the company’s needs.

• Foster a high level of engagement within the development department.

• Ensure that engineering deliverables meet the release readiness criteria set by the Senior Program Manager.

• Guarantee compliance with applicable certification criteria in development.

• Own the processes for vulnerability response, security testing, and maintaining product security posture.

• Assess technical debt, report findings, and implement actions to mitigate it.

• Participate in the budgeting process.

• Manage the technical requests escalation process.

• Oversee the execution of the release process.

• Manage DevOps/Release Engineering, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release tools, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Establish technical standards for community contributions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong leadership and management skills.

• Proficiency in development methodologies and best practices.

• Exceptional problem-solving and risk-management abilities.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Knowledge of software planning, development, debugging, and quality assurance processes.

• Capability to optimize workflows and boost team productivity.

• Over 5 years of hands-on experience as a Development Manager or in a similar role, with demonstrated ownership of software development cycles, releases, and team management.

• Experience leading distributed teams in a fully remote setting.

• Background in overseeing debugging, bug resolution, and quality assurance.

• Essential experience in networking, infrastructure, or cloud-based development.

• Hands-on experience with certification of development processes is required.

• Familiarity with open-source or open-core environments.

• Experience with automation, AI, and task management for Infrastructure, along with Jira automation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully Remote Work: This position allows you to work from anywhere, fully remotely.

• Flexible Work Schedule: We provide a flexible work schedule that lets you manage your time while ensuring effective collaboration across our globally distributed teams.

• Vacation: Enjoy 20 days of paid vacation annually.

• National Holidays: Entitlement to up to 10 days of paid leave for recognized national holidays.

• Sick Leave: Sick leave is provided in accordance with company policy.