Manager- Software Development Engineer

Description

Summary/Objective

You are a passionate technologist who loves solving complex problems. You love to roll up your sleeves and write beautiful code. You believe in automation and modern ways of building software. You feel honored to lead a talented team of application architects, team leads, and developers, while serving as a coach and guide in their career journeys. You see opportunities in problems and believe in systems thinking. You are not afraid of production issues and enjoy building secure, stable enterprise systems. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.

Essential Functions

• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Set the development strategy, best practices, technical design, coding, and quality standards, using input from appropriate teams.
• Maintain and improve business partnerships, processes, key performance metrics, policies and procedures to a strong level of business satisfaction and service levels, including adherence.
• Manage multiple teams of development and support using both on-shore and off-shore mixed models in a cross functional, agile environment.
• Mentor, coach and facilitate professional development of highly performing team members, providing feedback on indirect reports when necessary.
• Foster positive environments of teamwork, collaboration and professional growth.
• Serve as a liaison and partner between project management, business units and technology groups.
• Provide technical guidance concerning business implications of application development projects, writing comprehensive functional specifications, workflow documents & white papers when necessary.
• Collaborate with vendors and partners to augment development team’s capacity
• Apply proven communication, analytical and problem solving skills to guide and assist stakeholders and developers achieve the expected outcomes and validate the solution fulfills the business requirements.
• Manage some of the largest, complex and most critical system projects for the credit union.
• Maintain awareness of technologies and new solutions available in the market and evaluate relevance for use to support the business strategy.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned by Manager(s).

Education and Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience with Information/Business Systems. 4-year degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or similar, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5-7 years applying custom code development to complex problems in any object-oriented programming language, Java is preferred.
• Minimum 3 years designing and building performance API, Microservices, Console and Web Applications in a DevOps environment.
• Minimum 2 years designing and building front-end UI SPA (vue.js, react, angular)
• Minimum 3 years designing table structures and querying database technology.
• Minimum 5-7 years as an individual contributor with strong understanding of coding best practices.
• Minimum 3 years managing a team and mentoring professionals.
• Experience with custom data integrations using third party APIs.
• Experience in a Financial or Regulated Industry with lending domain knowledge with LOS applications like Temenos is preferred.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum/DevOps environment, with strong preference for certification.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and work with a sense of urgency.
• MuleSoft experience and using script language like python is good to have.
• Location: Chelmsford/Marlborough, MA
• Target Compensation: Min $131K - Max $157K annually + annual bonus
• Schedule: Monday- Friday: 8-5pm

Who We Are

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Every great journey begins with a bold idea—and ours is no different. First Tech and DCU were founded on the belief that financial solutions should put people first. That belief has fueled decades of innovation and service, rooted in the tech sector and expanding to support members from all walks of life.

Employees are eligible for

• Traditional medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off: You'll accrue up to 15 days in your first year. In addition, you'll receive 40 hours of sick time and 3 personal days, which refresh annually
• Paid federal holidays
• Special employee pricing on lending products such as mortgage, auto, and personal loans (eligibility subject to standard account requirements and underwriting criteria)

Employment Statements

First Tech is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity, inclusion, and equity at our company. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

If you're applying for a job and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

First Tech is not currently offering Visa transfer/sponsorship for this position.