Director of Software Development

About AvidXchange

AvidXchange is a leading provider of accounts payable ("AP") automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers. By trade, we are a technology company, but if you ask anyone that works here, they'll tell you our people are at the core of who we are. We are all entrepreneurs who love to innovate and win with a passion for serving our customers. While we take personal ownership of our everyday work, we recognize that we only win as a team.

Since our founding in 2000 in Charlotte, NC, we've created a company of over 1,600 teammates working in one of our 7 offices across the U.S., or remotely. We're building more than a tech company - we're building an experience. We remain committed to a culture where you can fully be 'you' - connected with others, chasing big goals and making a meaningful impact. If you want to help us grow while realizing your potential and creating stories you'll tell for years, you've come to the right place.

AvidXchange is proud to be Certified™ as aGreat Place to Work®. The prestigious recognition is based on anonymous data from our teammates and makes official what our teammates have known for years - that AvidXchange is a Great Place to Work®.

JOB OVERVIEW

As a Director of Software Development, you will provide leadership and guidance to software development leaders to help a fast-growing SaaS company rapidly deliver quality products to the market. This role requires an extensive background in running enterprise agile teams, have deep knowledge in scaled agile practices, SaaS deployment, and agile leadership principles.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create an environment that promotes learning; enabling resources to resolve and remove their own obstacles, while supporting individuals and teams to learn from failing fast
• Employ a lean leadership style, one that focuses on developing skills and career paths for team members. Attract, recruit, and retain capable individuals to build high-performant teams; establish mission and purpose for individuals and teams
• Perform career coaching and personal development; evaluate performance, including team input; provide guidance and corrective actions
• Create an environment of transparency where facts are always friendly so that individuals and teams feel free to innovate, experiment, and communicate openly and honestly with all stakeholders
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to eliminate impediments and evolve systems and practices in support of Lean-Agile development
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders in Software Architecture, Product, and Process Management to define and provide a cohesive leadership message and operational strategy.
• Responsible for building a high-performance organization to meet or exceed goals and to provide mission and purpose to individual contributors
• Provide direct input to policy level direction regarding standards, processes, metrics, long range plans and budgeting, and other policy items as required
• Collaborate with leadership to update monthly financial forecasts in areas of headcount, non-billable consulting, and capitalization including Manage expenses in line with provided department budgets
• Manage personnel actions, which includes but is not limited to, approving vacation, training, and making promotional salary or merit increase recommendations
• Contribute to building a high-performance organization to meet or exceed goals
• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement with a focus on being a best-in-class product delivery organization with on-time delivery, on-scope, on-budget, and on-quality with fully accountable for software quality and on-time delivery

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, AND SKILLS

• Experience supervising professional-level Engineering staff through large complex projects
• Significant understanding and knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within the software engineering and architecture field
• Experience and understanding of enterprise-level agile processes
• Broad exposure to a variety of industry frameworks, tools, and technologies utilized in implementing modern enterprise software solutions

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, AND SKILLS

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 10 years prior relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 9+ years of enterprise software development experience with 7+ years of leadership experience
• Experience in the Fintech and Payments space desirable
• Experience with engineering software using the Microsoft stack of technologies desirable

Equal Employment Opportunity

AvidXchange is an equal opportunity employer.AvidXchange is committed to equal employment opportunity in accordance withapplicable federal, state, and local laws. AvidXchange will not discriminateagainst applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis. Thisincludes, but is not limited to veteran status, race, color, religion, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ageand physical or mental disability.

Other details

• Job Family Software Engineering
• Job Function Software Development Engineering
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Management
• Travel Required Yes
• Travel % 20