Associate Manager Software Engineering

Job Overview

The Associate Manager Software Engineering designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Review and provide feedback on designs.
• Take ownership of the design and development of features within their component.
• Recognize and practically solve for anti-patterns.
• Understand how work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables.
• Define a component that fits into an architecture.
• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team.
• Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities.
• Act as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain.
• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management.
• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help.
• Understand features as a whole and break down larger stories and features into tasks.
• Be familiar with most of the technologies focused on and their target markets.
• Take ownership of customer issues and communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues.
• Discuss with customers larger concerns and problems beyond immediate technical concerns.
• Willingness to teach and grow junior team members.
• Exhibit excellent listening skills.
• Work effectively within the team and across teams.
• Ensure all tasks are completed thoroughly and work is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers.
• Create plans to fix problems and prevent recurrence.
• Follow through on all tasks.
• Reliably deliver expected work products and outcomes.
• Impart a sense of urgency on junior team members.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Mastery of data structures and algorithms.
• Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems.
• Able to write high-quality code rapidly.
• Track record of solving problems of increasing complexity.
• Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems with variable complexity.
• Deep understanding of memory allocation and management, security mechanisms, and processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems.
• Expertise in Java and C++.
• Expertise in JSP.
• Expertise in Spring Boot.
• Expertise in React.
• Expertise in REST Web Services.
• Expertise in Maven and other CI technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Writes code faster than the average developer.
• Outstanding quality with few bugs in generated code.

Education

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Travel Requirements

0-10%