Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Lead the software development team's initiatives for software enhancements and the creation of new products.

• Set individual objectives for team members and align them with the overall goals of the team and the company.

• Mentor team members and offer consistent feedback to enhance performance, accountability, growth, and development.

• Foster a culture of belonging, respect, and open communication.

• Supervise the specification, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operation of production software systems.

• Collaborate with software program managers and internal stakeholders to clarify application requirements and necessary modifications.

• Manage and prioritize the efforts of the software development team.

• Cultivate a technical understanding of production systems and plan for ongoing improvements through the elimination of technical debt.

• Engage in software release activities.

• Provide production support and resolve production-related issues.

• Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Bioinformatics, or a related field is required, with a minimum of 12 years of relevant software engineering and leadership experience.

• Alternatively, a Master’s degree in computer science with at least 8 years of relevant experience is acceptable.

• Proven experience in creating and maintaining complex software using contemporary methodologies in both Linux and Windows environments.

• Extensive experience with Python or Groovy; Java or C#; and relational databases such as Oracle or Postgres.

• Strong knowledge of source control, unit testing, in-code documentation, and automated build environments.

• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with non-computer scientists, including lab technicians, biologists, geneticists, and statisticians.

• Ability to work effectively within a team; willingness to engage in pair programming and/or code reviews.

• Experience in managing production issues, interacting with primary users, and delivering production support.

• Capability to understand, debug, maintain, and/or refactor legacy code.

• Familiarity with Java Servlets, JSPs, HTML, and JavaScript.

• Knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS.

• Experience with build tools such as Ant or Gradle.

• Knowledge of web UI frameworks, web services, and RESTful APIs.

• Adaptive is not currently sponsoring candidates who require work authorization support for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity grant.

• Bonus eligibility.

• Benefits provided through Adaptive’s benefits-at-a-glance program.

• Travel required if necessary, with a maximum of 10%.