Manager, Software Engineering (1600)

Impact you will make in the role:

• Manage the performance and professional development of a team of up to 12 software development professionals. This includes, but is not limited to:
• · Establishing personal goals for team members.
• · Conducting performance reviews for team members.
• · Helping identify career paths and aiding in the career development of staff.
• · Identifying organizational leaders and delegating effectively to senior organizational leadership.
• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Provide technical guidance to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing best practices.
• Estimate anticipated deliverables both for time and complexity
• Lead by example with a strong emphasis on craftsmanship and focus on quality.
• Collaborate with other software engineers, product managers, and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain various software products.
• Work with peers to implement efficient scrum-based software development processes
• Own the development of the core CRM application and other CRM based applications as well as common components of SugarCRM’s products and platform.
• Perform code reviews and mentor junior developers
• Continually look for ways to improve our code base and evaluate new technologies.
• Contribute to the deliverables of the team through delivery of code, testing, documention, proofs of concept, and/or diagraming
• Ensure delivery of clean, maintainable code and automated tests.
• Participate in functional requirements and design documentation.
• Interview potential candidate engineers and interns.
• Deliver Product Group presentations and demonstrations for the team.

Expertise you will bring in:

• MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or foreign equivalent, plus 5 years of professional experience in a technical position in a software development organization. The position also requires:
• 5+ years as a software engineer in a professional software development organization
• 3+ years of experience with, or development of, CRM applications with an emphasis on SugarCRM’s core platform and products, including Sugar Market, Sugar Serve, Sugar Sell, and Sugar Mobile
• 3+ years of full stack web application development, including UI design, UI development, client-side technologies, JavaScript frameworks that include Backbone, Underscore, Handlebars, Webpack, PHP extensions and libraries, and test automation
• 3+ years of experience with object-oriented design, development, RESTful APIs, testing methodologies, server-side programming languages (PHP is a must), web services, and relational databases
• 3+ years of experience with scrum-based software development tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence
• 1+ year of experience with a large-scale enterprise product and/or distributed SaaS systems
• 1+ year of experience leading all ceremonies for a Scrum team, including daily scrum, end of sprint retrospectives, sprint planning, grooming meetings, and prioritization of work; participate in Scrum of Scrums and biweekly Sprint Reviews
• 1+ year of experience conducting weekly one on one meetings with staff, setting corrective action plans, executing action plans, and tending to the needs of the team
• Excellent time management skills with an emphasis on managing remote resources around the world and across many different time zones
• Identification and management of risks and dependencies, both internal and external
• Ability to identify and coordinate delivery of dependencies across multiple teams and products
• Long term vision that promotes short term deliverables in quarterly release format based on factual, data driven scope definitions
• Strength in planning, scheduling, executing, and finalizing delivery on regular two-week sprint cycles based on individual capacity and team velocity
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization and across differing types of audiences
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills with differing consumers, stakeholders, team members, partners, and customers