Senior 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 Senior 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 the market. The Job requires experience in running enterprise agile teams, having 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.
• 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 in Software Architecture, Product and Process Management to define and provide a cohesive leadership message and operational strategy leaders to eliminate impediments and evolve systems and practices in support of Lean-Agile development
• Responsible for building a high-performance team to meet or exceed goals and to provide mission and purpose to individual contributors.
• Manage personnel actions, which include but is not limited to, approving vacation, training, and making promotional salary or merit increase recommendations
• Collaborate with leadership to update monthly financial forecasts in areas of headcount, non-billable consulting, and capitalization.
• Provide additional mentoring and coaching to direct reports. Employ a lean leadership style, one that focuses on developing skills and career paths for team members.
• Contribute to policy-level discussions regarding standards, processes, metrics, long-range plans and budgeting, and other policy items as required and participate in building a high-performance team to meet or exceed goals.
• 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 and fully accountable for software quality and on-time delivery.

Required Experience, Qualification, 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 a,nd Skills

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field and 10+ years of enterprise software development experience with 8+ years of leadership experience
• Experience in the FinTech space is 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