Manager 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 Software Development Manager, you will provide leadership and guidance to software development teams to help a fast-growing SaaS company to rapidly deliver quality products to 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 path 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.
• Manage personnel actions, which includes but is not limited to, approving vacation, training, and making promotional salary or merit increase recommendations.
• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement with a focus on being a best in class product delivery organization.
• Maintain a culture of delivering on-time, on-scope, on-budget, and on-quality.
• Fully accountable for software quality and on-time delivery.
• Jump in and assist the team when needed to unblock and progress the team by setting the example.

EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

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
• Understanding of variety of industry frameworks, tools, and technologies utilized in implementing modern enterprise software solutions.
• Experience with cloud cost optimizations and understanding the impact of delivering products to the cloud.
• Knowledge of enterprise observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Splunk or similar tools to create business and technical dashboards and reporting.
• 5+ years of experience using Azure cloud including Event Hubs, Service bus, Functions, App Service, SQL,Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and similar services.
• Understanding of the Full End-To-End SDLC, including but not limited to : Requirements gathering, Project Scoping, Development, Testing, Deployment, and Production Support of enterprise level software projects.
• Prior experience migrating services from on-prem to cloud native platforms either hands-on or leading the team completing the work.

Preferred Experience, Qualifications, and Skills

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7 years prior relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in software development in management role.
• 8+ years' experience delivering software systems or platforms designed for High transaction volumes
• Experience in the FinTech space desirable
• Good knowledge of credit, debit, ACH and real time Payment operations.
• 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