Software Development Manager

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

📋 Description

• Leading, inspiring, and developing a team of software engineers as they tackle intricate challenges in the Financial Services sector.

• Directly and indirectly overseeing a team through collaboration and mentorship of a Technical Lead Staff Engineer.

• Collaborating closely with architects, product teams, engineering leadership, and stakeholders to synchronize team priorities and roadmaps.

• Identifying, articulating, and eliminating obstacles and risks to delivery, both within the team and across the broader Financial Services organization.

• Planning and enhancing the professional development of individual team members, which includes conducting 1-on-1 meetings, performance evaluations, ongoing feedback, goal-setting, and promotions.

• Reporting progress and status updates to engineering leadership and stakeholders.

• Sourcing and recruiting top talent for your team and the larger organization.

• Offering technical and process-oriented guidance to the team during the delivery phase.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading a team of developers to successfully deliver software products.

• Expertise in delivering microservice-oriented, scalable, cloud-based applications.

• Strong proficiency in Java, TypeScript, Ruby, or Python.

• Professional background in agile development and best practices for continuous delivery.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Ability to personally coach, mentor, and motivate individuals as well as the overall team.

• A strong enthusiasm for continuous learning and improvement.

• A quality-focused mindset emphasizing software scalability and resilience.

• Experience in the Payments sector (preferred).

• Background in developing scalable SaaS solutions (preferred).

• Experience in full-stack web application development (preferred).

• Solid understanding of cloud services, particularly AWS and GCP (preferred).

• Project Management or Scrum Master experience, or formal training (preferred).

• Experience in test automation and/or DevOps engineering (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Exceptional benefits and perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders.

• High degree of autonomy, a flexible work culture, and the option for remote work.

• Chance to influence the future of a new product from technical, process, and organizational viewpoints.

• Development of global products.

• Exposure to modern and established technologies.

• Opportunities for skill enhancement and learning.

• Numerous growth prospects in technical or people management roles.