[Hiring] Development Manager @Cultura Technologies

Role Description

We are seeking a hands-on Software Development Manager to lead a small, dynamic team of developers and testers delivering high-quality software for our mission-critical, cloud-based Agiblocks commodity trading and risk management product.

In this role you’ll own the full lifecycle of a highly flexible and modern solution deployed in international ag- and soft-commodity trading companies where operations cannot fail. Customers rely on this system to manage trades, risks, logistics, billing, financial integrations and compliance.

Your work and leadership must result in bullet-proof, high-availability software that seamlessly integrates with other systems including market data and ERP connections. If you have the technical vision and execution chops to build for high performance, maximum up-time/availability, and operational resiliency under support-intensive conditions, this is the opportunity for you.

Agiblocks is the cloud-based CTRM platform that international agricultural and soft-commodity traders use to run trades, risk, logistics, billing, financial integrations and compliance. Our customers’ operations cannot fail, so high availability, performance and resilience are not features, they are the baseline.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will remain close enough to the code to review work, troubleshoot issues and contribute directly when this helps the team, while spending most of your time coordinating delivery, facilitating technical decisions and improving how the team works.

What you will own

• Modernising how we build and test, a priority for this role.
• Lead the transition towards substantially more automated testing.
• Introduce AI-assisted software development across the team.
• Set the guardrails that keep AI-generated code safe in a mission-critical product.
• Define and report the measures that prove it is working.

Team leadership

• Lead, mentor and motivate the team across development, QA and DevOps, onshore and offshore.
• Drive recruiting, onboarding and performance feedback.
• Grow engineers technically through code review, pair programming and design discussion.
• Build a collaborative, accountable, results-driven team culture.

Delivery and process

• Work with the Product Owner to clarify requirements, estimate work and plan sprints.
• Run the team’s day-to-day R&D process.
• Coordinate development and DevOps contributions to customer-funded, consulting and implementation projects.
• Track and report sprint outcomes and delivery metrics.
• Coordinate the software release process and provide cost estimates.

Technical ownership

• Stay hands-on: write code, review pull requests and debug production issues.
• Lead and moderate technical discussions.
• Coordinate the DevOps effort for Agiboo-built and deployed applications.
• Troubleshoot product and infrastructure issues.
• Evaluate and lead modernisation of tools, platforms and integrations.

What you bring — essential

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or a comparable technical discipline.
• 5+ years in professional software development.
• Experience as a technical lead, senior developer or development manager.
• Strong working knowledge of web-based C# and .NET.
• A modern UI framework in production: React, Blazor or ASP.NET MVC.
• Microsoft Azure and microservices architecture.
• Layered / 3-tier application design.
• Relational and document databases: MS SQL / Azure SQL and MongoDB.
• Hands-on Agile/Scrum, CI/CD and test automation practice.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development in a working team.

What you bring — preferred

• Optimizing cloud applications for high throughput and high availability.
• Commodity trading and risk management, or domain knowledge in agriculture, energy or metals.
• Delivering in a support-intensive, customer-facing product environment.
• Rolling out AI tooling across an engineering team.
• Agentic coding tools or AI-assisted test generation platforms in a compliance-sensitive product.
• Breadth across a wide array of technologies and integration patterns.

How you work

• Hands-on by preference.
• Strong ownership: accountable for what the team ships.
• Structured and calm under competing priorities.
• Clear communicator with engineers, product, and customers alike.
• Pragmatic about AI.
• Quality-first and customer-focused.

Scope and authority

• Manages the development, QA and DevOps team, onshore and offshore.
• Owns sprint planning, task allocation and performance feedback.
• Makes day-to-day delivery and technical decisions.
• Reports to the Business Unit Leader and works closely with the Product Owner.

Worker Type

Regular

Number of Openings Available

1