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®.

Our Opportunity

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.Strong knowledge of modern engineering concepts including domain-driven design, event-driven systems, cloud native, and building autonomous teams are a plus.

Role 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.
• Drive next generation adoption to help create cloud-native applications and modern engineering practices.
• Drive team autonomy
• 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 of engineering commitments.

Required Experience, Qualifications, and Skills

• 5 or more years of software development experience
• Experience supervising or leading 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.

Preferred Experience, Qualifications, and Skills

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7 or more years prior relevant experience
• Experience working with Cloud Native applications
• 2 or more years of leadership experience
• Experience in the FinTech or Financial Services space
• Experience with engineering software using the Microsoft stack of technologies desirable (.NET, Azure)
• Payment's technology domain knowledge
• Solid understanding of Domain driven design, Clean architecture, REST APIs, and Microservices
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field

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