Software Engineering Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to make an impact and shape the future of the commercial real estate (CRE) industry?

Innovation meets excellence at Berkadia, where we give you the space you need to create and allow your ideas to flourish. We are leading the evolution of CRE, and can't do that without innovators who are driven by curiosity and are willing to challenge the status quo as they chart their career path – and Berkadia's future. Be Part of Building the Next. Be Berkadia.

We Innovate to shape the future of CRE, so in this role you will:

• Work with Product Managers on a long-term roadmap and vision as well as break down requirements during implementation.
• Evaluate the feasibility of proposed work with product owners, architects, and designers. Discuss and influence product architecture to increase developer agility while retaining architectural sanctity.
• Work with stakeholders and product owners to ensure development of high-quality software that complies with all architecture and engineering standards; and delivers incremental value to business.

• Provide technical expertise while planning to help clarify requirements, plan out potential implementations, and measure success.

• Manage software development work to create new products and maintain existing applications to create value for users and customers.
• Influence, guide and motivate software engineers to meet product development plans, cost, quality and schedule requirements.
• Ensure all the developed software are adequately tested and meet Berkadia standards.
• Participate in design, implementation, and execution across a variety of features.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies for software to be developed / under development.
• Remove tactical impediments and drive resolution of issues while ensuring continued focus on incremental business value – within teams and across teams.
• Demonstrate general knowledge of all products and the platform and how they fit into the overall system.
• Support preparation of Engineering Roadmap. Present practical input for strategic technology decisions.
• Hire, retain, and grow strong talent to build a highly capable, high performance team.
• Assess team members’ skills and provide resources for self-development.
• Supervise and assign work to software engineers and manages and assess their performance.
• Regularly communicate team progress internally and evangelize progress and opportunities to a wider audience including management and leadership.
• Other duties as assigned.

We Stand for Excellence, so to achieve success in this role you should have:

• At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience
• At least 2 years of experience managing and mentoring a team of 8-10 software engineers.
• Strong proficiency of coding in multiple languages. Very familiar with some of the tools and concepts we use at Berkadia, such as Node, Angular/React, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, Event Sourcing, and Git.
• Hands on with professional software development tools for source control, IDEs, unit testing, security testing, and so on.
• Understands design patterns, scaling, reliability, and maintenance trade-offs. Focus on Quality.
• Experience of developing software based on domain driven design.
• Expertise in all the aspects of software engineering including planning, estimation, tracking and reporting.
• Proficiency and experience in agile software development practices as well as SecDevOps
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and consistency.
• Strong time management and problem-solving skills
• Ability to provide clear direction, performance management, identify developmental needs and provide mentoring and counseling to employees.
• Ability to work in a team environment and adapt / flexible to a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and adhere to Berkadia’s policies and exhibit proficiency and understanding of Berkadia’s Values.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience

We believe People Matter, so we offer benefits that go beyond:

• Monthly paid volunteer hours and donation matching to benefit our communities 
• Employee Resource Groups that help you grow with us
• Fertility and family planning services  
• Up to 12-weeks of fully paid parental leave   
• Mental health care, including free counseling sessions:  
• We'll help fund your learning journey with generous tuition reimbursement 
• Pet insurance discounts 
• And more! 

Be Part of Building the Next. Be Berkadia. 

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