[Hiring] Development Manager @Windward Software

Role Description

Windward Software is seeking a Development Manager to own the maintenance and release of our production software and to lead the team that sustains it. This is a remote role based in Canada.

• Own the software Windward has in the field today, and everything we release from here.
• Accountable for its health, supportability and release.
• Manage six developers directly; quality assurance reports through its own lead.

What you will do

• Sustain the products in the field:
• Own maintenance, defect resolution, releases, patches and customer commitments across all products in production, current and future.
• Make technology decisions for the products you manage: tooling, platform and upgrade choices.
• Set the bar a new product meets before it transitions to maintenance: documentation, test coverage, operational readiness and support training.
• Own the maintenance of the installed base: version currency, upgrade paths and technical debt position of released software.
• Lead the development team day to day:
• Run delivery for six developers: cadence, prioritization, sprint planning, unblocking and schedule adherence.
• Grow the team, and own performance, development, capacity and hiring input.
• Own quality assurance outcomes through the quality assurance lead.
• Approve concepts, approaches and direction for maintenance work.
• Own the administration of the function: reporting, performance review and scorecard cycle, budget input, and performance measures.
• Put AI to work across the team:
• Apply the organization's AI standards and tooling to the team's daily work.
• Coach the team to design, build, test and ship with AI.
• Partner across the organization:
• Work closely with product management, technical architecture, cloud operations and IT, and customer support.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a technical lead or engineering management capacity leading a delivery team.
• Technical fluency in software and data.
• Experience maintaining and evolving an established or legacy product while introducing new technology and practices.
• Strong planning, reporting and follow through.
• Real enthusiasm for AI in engineering.
• Solid software architecture and delivery fundamentals; database and client-server or desktop application experience.
• A clear communicator and mentor.

Nice to have

• System Five, ERP or business management software domain experience.
• Database platform migration experience, including Btrieve or Actian Pervasive to PostgreSQL.
• Cloud and SaaS modernization experience.
• Coordinating remote teams of development and QA resources.

Why this role

Everything Windward sells today, and everything it releases from here, sits under this role. You get a defined team, full accountability for the installed base, and the authority to set the technical standard maintained software meets.

Worker Type

Regular

Number of Openings Available

1