Software Development Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, conducting regular one-on-one meetings while cultivating a collaborative team environment dedicated to delivering value to automotive dealers.

• Actively engage with the codebase, implement features, create proofs of concept, and tackle complex MarTech and web-scale engineering challenges.

• Drive the development of generative AI capabilities and enhance the data ecosystem.

• Create platform functionalities that improve interactions between dealerships and buyers.

• Promote operational excellence within both build teams.

• Maintain focus and accountability to adhere to strict two-week sprint cycles.

• Identify and eliminate daily obstacles, accurately estimate work, and ensure high-quality continuous delivery.

• Collaborate closely with the VP of Product to implement roadmap priorities.

• Work alongside the peer engineering manager to guarantee cohesive platform architecture and synchronized release cycles.

• Ensure seamless frontend-to-backend integration with UX/UI design.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in software engineering.

• At least 2 years in a hands-on management role overseeing software developers.

• Strong practical experience in building and maintaining web applications using PHP, Laravel, and Vue.js 3.0.

• Familiarity with AWS, particularly in serverless architecture and Lambdas.

• Experience with Claude/Anthropic and Snowflake.

• Proven ability to balance direct management duties with coding, performing technical reviews, and actively developing features.

• Demonstrated capability to guide development teams through disciplined two-week agile sprints.

• Ability to take direct guidance from executive leadership.

• Competence in translating product requirements into clear developer tasks.

• Skill in collaborating across functional teams.

• Previous experience in automotive dealerships, retail technology, or customer-facing marketing platforms is highly advantageous.

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake beyond basic warehousing, including familiarity with data pipelines and AI/LLM components such as RAG and vector embeddings is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• No benefits, perks, or compensation extras are specified in the posting.