Description
Are you looking for a challenging leadership role working on a powerful and configurable platform? Are you experienced in full-stack development and mobile data collection applications anchored in GIS technology? Do you have the skills and creativity to develop the strategy and execute the modernization of applications to cross-platform technologies? Are you also looking to build and mentor a team to take our platform to the next level?
This role is a full-time permanent position, and the ideal candidate would be located within commuting distance of our Fort Collins, CO location. Consideration will be given to those within commuting distance to our Austin, TX headquarters location.
American Innovations is a technology leader providing critical software and services that support our nation’s most important infrastructure in the utility & energy space. We do this by providing a wide range of technology solutions spanning across our Mobile edge computing, IoT, and SaaS platforms.
This role is a highly influential software engineering manager role that can truly help drive the business forward from a technical perspective and will focus on the CartoPac high-accuracy mobile data collection platform.
A role you will love
This is a hands-on management position. Up to 70% of your time may be spent making technical contributions such as designing, developing, DevOps, etc. You will ensure the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams and third-party providers.
You will engage in mentoring and guiding the professional development of American Innovations technical staff, as well as identify and recommend opportunities for developing product functional and technical strategies for your domain. This will include the development of actionable short and long-term product roadmaps, by partnering with business leaders, product managers, systems architects, security operations, support, and experienced engineers.
You will also make decisions and resolve design challenges, create and oversee strategic product design from the engineering perspective, write code on our application stack in addition to overseeing an engineering team ensuring the delivery of commitments aligned to our engineering roadmaps.
What we can offer you:
- Competitive benefits focused on your physical well-being, including Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance and company provided Life and Disability. Company paid HSA funds if HDHP Medical plan is selected.
- Programs to improve your financial well-being, including a 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% with immediate vesting and financial education courses.
- Opportunities to give back to the community.
- Generous PTO policy; including Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Paid Parental Leave.
- Supportive and collaborative environments, with ambassadors for new hires, happy hours, and fun events.
- Assistance to further your learning and development, including tuition assistance and Lunch and Learns.
- A rewarding culture, with a focus on positive business practices and protecting the environment.
Requirements
Key Skills and Technical Experience
- Minimum 10+ years experience developing full-stack, multi-tiered web architectures
- Comfortable with Git to support branching, merging, rebasing, and pull requests.
- 4+ years leading a team of software engineers.
- Mastery of C#, C++, and COM on Windows.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, IIS, network programming.
- Solid understanding of front-end web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript [React, Angular, jQuery, etc.])
- Administration and Development of enterprise database systems: SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
- Regular use of test frameworks (NUnit, VSTest) and TDD methodologies.
- Experience troubleshooting, debugging, and profiling client/server applications.
- Proficient understanding of UML class, sequence, & database diagrams to support design documentation.
- Understanding of OOP, threading, memory, data storage, user interfaces, design patterns, and networking.
- CICD pipeline creation for deploying software to dev, test, and production environments.
- Azure, AWS, or similar cloud infrastructure for hosting VMs, app services, or microservices.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Applied Computing Technology, Computer Information Systems, or related field.
Soft Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication/documentation skills.
- Proficient in client/server development environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Self-motivated and ability to work independently and in a team to solve problems.
- Create reliable estimates and thrive in a culture that promotes personal commitment.
- Ability to mentor colleagues in best practices, software design, and troubleshooting.
- Commitment to team vision and goals in a virtual, flexible hybrid-workplace environment.
- Personal drive to evolve legacy systems into new architectures that lower engineering overhead, reduce technical debt, add new features, and scale to meet customer demand.
- Demonstrate a passion for lifelong learning and continuous improvement.
Position Alignment:
1. Design, Execute & Create (50%)
- Drive and deliver team commitments.
- Contribute to the development of software solutions by writing code.
- Work closely with team members to ensure no code is released without proper testing and review, satisfying the AI Definition of Done.
- Communicate with management and drive resolution on issues that arise.
- Partner with cross-functional teams such as Product Owners and System Architects as needed to ensure your work is aligned and scope is well understood.
- Lead the development team to resolve issues of alignment by seeing the bigger picture of their work.
- Promptly address quality issues; participate in prioritizing work – apply your experience to help explore possible solution shortcomings.
- Advocate for team initiative and ownership – create and lead great code with the whole solution in mind instead of just achieving the minimum required.
2. Leading, Planning & Design (20%)
- Understand the product roadmap, current architecture, and lead the development process.
- Guide, mentor, and motivate the team.
- Support the planning of product roadmap by providing inputs from the engineering perspective and plan how we will execute it; give inputs and drive at what can be done technically.
- Partner with solution architects to design and document product solutions that align with product requirements.
- Support the management team by developing rough order of magnitude cost estimates by leveraging prior experiences and knowledge of building software systems.
- Continually seek ways to use common software modules across product spaces.
- Understand the requirements the team is responsible for delivering on, make every reasonable effort to clearly know what “done” means before you start planning; use requirements to drive the complete solution.
- Ensure a common look and feel across product lines, promote consistent coding practices, and adhere to the common architecture patterns.
- Be the champion of the AI design-first approach to software development by leading, reviewing, and driving software design documents following the AI Way.
- Identify and communicate potential solution risk areas and propose alternative solutions.
- Promote and build on AI coding standards.
- Build your understanding of user needs & expectations through Product Manager, user meetings, etc. & apply that in your planning & design.
3. Productivity Process & Efficiency (10%)
- Raise issues and concerns about the resources and time necessary to do the job correctly.
- Collaborate on documenting how we do things, so we can review systematically and incrementally improve how we deliver outstanding products.
- Document and describe technical solutions to management with the perfect blend of technical depth and complexity.
- Actively participate in all Agile/Scrum ceremonies.
- Recommend and discover practices to adopt and promote areas for improvement and removing inefficiency.
- Provide management input on personnel job performance.
- Communicate and implement improvements as directed.
- Continuously raise the bar on what it means to achieve engineering excellence.
4. Support & Service (10%)
- Serve your team by removing blockers, filling gaps, finding solutions, and running ambiguity to ground so they can excel at what they do best and develop software.
- Support and drive 121/PAGE process with direct reports providing clear and direct feedback on job performance.
- Support our customers and customer service by providing exceptional technical support and software insight.
- Partner with product to convert customer service engagements into product improvements.
- Propose options and recommendations for implementation and issue resolution.
- Provide Tier 3 customer support in a timely and constructive manner – help validate issues, develop workarounds, give input on issues, and provide technical answers to customer questions.
5. Development (10%)
- Work closely with the Director of Software Engineering to understand key resources needs of the team, identify holes and work with the Director of Software Engineering to continue to improve our teams.
- Help your team understand your strengths and where best you can be utilized.
- Support and strengthen the AI culture, clearly understand and communicate purpose and culture.
- Stay abreast of current technology at a higher level and incorporate that into your deliverables appropriately, paying close attention not to fall behind the technology curve.
- Develop skills to fill the needs of the team, identify and develop personal growth opportunities.
- Understand your strengths and weaknesses, develop a plan to get better. Improve your development skills, learn software best practices, be a resource to other developers.
Job Details:
The compensation for this position is $135,000-165,000 annually, depending on experience.
Successful applicants must be eligible to work in the US (visa sponsorship is not provided at this time) and must be able to pass a pre-employment background and drug test. American Innovations is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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