Senior Software Engineering Manager

Job description

Our Industry: Technology for Small and Medium Size Business (SMB)

AbacusNext is a leading technology provider for legal, accounting, and compliance-focused professionals. We empower our customers to grow their businesses, better serve their clients, and operate at peak efficiency-all within a secure, cloud-enabled ecosystem.

We provide purpose-built, cloud-based solutions for small and medium-sized Legal and Accounting firms to support a secure and cloud-enabled practice.

Our product portfolio includes case and practice management, payment processing, private cloud hosting, and document automation solutions designed to make work easier for more than 1 million global users.

Our Mission: Technology and services for SMB customers to run their business:

To provide professionals in highly-regulated industries the technology and services they need to run their business-anytime, anywhere. We are with our customers every step of the way, helping them grow, evolve, and better serve their clients.

Your Mission:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join our R&D team to lead, manage and develop our expanding software engineering team for Zola Suite. Zola Suite is a rapidly growing platform that provides state of technology solutions for lawyers and other professionals. Although we're an established platform, we maintain a start-up mentality where everyone's unique abilities are celebrated. Our team is only as strong as its employees; therefore, we take steps to ensure members of our team continue to evolve professionally while having a bit of fun along the way.

The ideal candidate will have an engineering mindset with a passion for developing innovative products. You are expected to be highly skilled with hands-on experience and domain expertise in both web, object-oriented and/or functional programming as well as data and analytics technologies and best practices.

Requirements

Responsibilities Include:

As a leader of Software Engineering, you will:

• Manage and lead your reports and resources to execute on the Zola Suite engineering vision. This includes recruiting, mentoring, and the development of individuals on your team
• Manage onshore and offshore technology staff.
• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance of team's software development resources onshore and offshore in architecting, designing, building, documenting, and QA of Zola Suite
• Collaborate extensively with Product to ensure a unified vision and continued improvements to products.
• Own, manage and execute the strategy, roadmap, and technical implementation of scalable services and product rollouts
• Demonstrate strong coding skills, ability to lead and contribute to the team efforts while following established software engineering practices including ability to contribute and conduct code reviews, contribute high-quality documentation, hands-on assistance in the development of robust scalable applications, as well as act as role model for their team
• Assist in the creation of roadmaps as well as sprint and release planning by participating and leading team grooming sessions and providing work effort estimations
• Lead the implementation of an agile software development life cycle, best practices, and governance.
• Work with the CISO organization to adhere to corporate security standards for platform and application development
• Manage, negotiate, and develop third-party vendor relationships alongside the Software Engineering management team, as they relate to tools, outsourcing, and consulting.
• Effectively deliver product fixes as required; coordinate efficient and repeatable fix delivery cycles
• Own and drive KPI's critical to software quality which primarily includes increasing engineering confidence and release frequency to new levels

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• At least 8 years of experience in a technology-based position, with at least 3 years of management experience leading increasingly complex and challenging projects that have led to the delivery of technology solutions into business organizations
• 5+ years of experience programming in both web, object-oriented or functional programming environments
• A broad range of skills and experience ranging from data architecture to ETL, security, performance analysis, analytics, etc.
• 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining the data architecture, data models and standards for various Data Integration & Data Warehousing projects
• Highly skilled with hands-on experience and domain expertise in both web and object-oriented programming as well as data and analytics technologies and best practices
• Have worked as an integral member of the development team collaborating with product, engineering, and other business groups by designing and developing highly scalable SaaS applications
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience with .NET programming using the C# programming language, as well as web development using ASP.NET, HTML and JavaScript
• In-depth knowledge of .NET Framework 4.0+, .NET Core, ASP.NET development patterns, and experience using common JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (such as jQuery, Angular or React)
• Experience developing web services or micro-service-based applications
• Experience working with GitHub and knowledge of strategies and branching patterns for team collaboration
• Solid understanding of software enterprise and cloud-native architectures.
• Working knowledge and experience using software design patterns
• Code refactoring skills
• A solid understanding and use of relational database methodologies and solutions
• Experience with release/deployment processes/strategies

Leadership Qualifications:

• An ownership mentality and entrepreneurial approach, including comfort with intelligent risk taking and problem-solving skills
• Be well organized with good delegation skills
• Experience in leading Agile development practices
• Possess the ability and experience to consistently deliver on teams' commitments
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with senior management, stakeholders, and team members
• Verifiable presentation skills, as a confident communicator who is enthusiastic, self-starting and flexible in style and approach
• Results-oriented self-starter in need of limited or no supervision

Education and experience:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent Engineering Degree

Benefits

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Sick Days

Employee Perks:

• Professional and Financial Growth
• Great culture and environment
• Social, Health, and Wellness Events (now all virtual)
• Anniversary Gifts
• Birthday Time Off

Equal Employment Opportunity: AbacusNext is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.

Job Type: Full-time