Position: Software Development Manager
Company: SOTI
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

SOTI’s growth and success is a result of commitment to innovation through entrepreneurial culture and leadership. Employees are driven to make an impact, offer a unique value and most importantly, be part of winning sales team.
The Development Manager is responsible for providing leadership and direction to SOTI’s product development department to develop products and drive innovation according to the business roadmaps. You will ensure that SOTI adheres to its technology strategies and processes, and protects its intellectual property.

Responsibilities:
- Take a holistic, long-term view and build the capability of the organization to build great products
- Help the teams and the ScrumMaster with removing obstacles, making improvements, and applying Scrum principles within the team
- Act as a coach for teams that are developing new solutions and technologies, by providing direction, encouragement, and technical expertise to the team
- Teach teams how to improve and solve problems
- Explore top-notch modern software development practices for the entire software development lifecycle and help introduce these to the team
- Drive architectural design for SOTI’s products; design major components of the architecture, including APIs, services, user interface, and middleware
- Advocate, document, and enforce best engineering practices, design and implementation principles, coding standards
- Drive quality in all phases of software development
- Collaborate with senior management, product, support, and other technical teams, collect requirements, define and communicate product technical strategy, architecture, and design
- Support Product Owners and ScrumMaster in the execution of implementation plans and the creation of roadmaps
- Help in growing technical expertise at SOTI, mentor and educate developers as well as quality assurance specialists
- Develop the technical capabilities of team members through on the job and external training
- Facilitate and encourage “best-practices” sharing throughout the organization

Qualification:
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in Software Development, Design and Testing with over 5 years in a leadership capacity
- 3-5 years of combined experience architecting, designing, and implementing multi-tiered software applications
- Experience in taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience working on complex business problems and providing technical solutions that are effective, creative, and efficient
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Ability to effectively promote teamwork and collaboration
- Demonstrated problem solving skills applied to people and technology
- Strong understanding of professional software development practices & best practices for the full software development lifecycle
- Deep experience in agile software development life cycle, practices, and tools (coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes, QA)
- Ability to coach team members in technical skills and provide advice and assistance on project management, time management, coding, and testing
- Knowledge of commonly used development tools and technologies
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast-paced and demanding environment
- Analytical rigor and solid process management
- Very good communicator, both written and oral, to all levels and functions of the company
- Drive for excellence

Nice to have:
- Experience in Mobile Device Management and Enterprise Mobility Management application technologies and space.
- Experience with enterprise web applications with performance centered architecture and design
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and efficient build processes
- Cloud technologies and deployment
- An academic background in Computer Science (BSc or MSc) or equivalent