Storable is looking for a technical Manager who will be responsible for growing and mentoring a team of engineers and be accountable for the teams overall performance through the next phase of Storable’s growth. Successful candidates will have outstanding analytic capabilities and a track record of delivering successful products as both a developer and lead. The ability to prioritize changing demands in addition to being extremely process focused in a fast paced environment is a must. The successful candidate must be a passionate, transparent, and straight-forward leader and communicator, energized by the idea of developing talent and a world-class engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Own and champion the development process: SDLC, coding standards, code-reviews check-ins and builds, issue tracking, bug triages, incident management. and testing
- Build and maintain a high performing software development team including hiring, training, and onboarding
- Identify opportunities to eliminate non-value add activities to enable our developers to do what they love best – developing! No pointless meetings, no unnecessary interruptions, no random changes of course, no new problems from on high dumped in their lap each month
- Identify growth opportunities for team members to continue to learn and develop in a supportive environment
- Provide an engaging and challenging landscape for career growth
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and motivation to the engineering team to sustain high levels of productivity and morale
- Collaborate with Product Management on product requirements
- Champion and advocate for the engineering team to the rest of the organization
- Create a positive culture of fairness, quality, and accountability while challenging the status quo and bringing new ideas to light
- Participate as a member of Storable’s Engineering Leadership team to build a high performing organization across multiple locations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, 2+ years of development leadership experience
- Demonstrated technical leadership and people management skills
- Experience with agile development processes
- Hands-on experience in driving/leading technical efforts in cloud-based applications
- Proven track record of driving quality within a team, with a commitment to automated testing
- Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively influence product at different levels of abstraction and communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent coding skills to provide guidance and craftsmanship for our engineers
- Technical acumen to provide solid judgment in situations so you can provide the optimal short term decisions without sacrificing long term technology goals
- Demonstrated critical analysis skills to provide continuous improvement of technology, process, and productivity