Development Manager

Aquifer, Inc•Hanover, NH

About The Position

The Development Manager reports to the Chief Technology Officer and owns engineering capacity, delivery commitments, and technical execution quality across Aquifer's development pods. The role directly manages all engineers, including pod tech leads and a technical architect, with full people-management responsibility. The Development Manager is accountable for release reliability and the delivery and quality dimensions of engineering performance. Aquifer is a virtual learning company focused on online education for health professions. Its educational content is developed by medical educators to help learners build core knowledge, clinical reasoning, and other cognitive competencies. Aquifer reports a 98% market share in medical education, a growing presence in physician assistant and nurse practitioner education, and more than 70,000 students completing over 1,000,000 cases annually.

Requirements

Proven experience managing engineering teams, engineering managers, or senior individual contributors.
A track record of owning delivery commitments and release quality for a live SaaS product.
Experience managing distributed or multi-site engineering teams.
Ability to evaluate the technical judgment and output of senior- or staff-level engineers.
Comfort setting and enforcing technical and process guardrails for AI-assisted software development.
Working familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Ruby on Rails environment.
Experience running structured capability assessments, such as evaluating a technical architect against defined deliverables.

Responsibilities

Ensure engineering follows the cadence needed to deliver roadmap commitments set by the Lead Product Manager.
Own engineering scorecard metrics for quality and delivery.
Manage all engineers, including both pod tech leads, covering performance, career development, hiring, and day-to-day support.
Provide meaningful roles and assignments for engineers through talent and capability mapping.
Own engineering capacity planning and translate roadmap commitments into realistic delivery plans.
Own release reliability and production quality across both pods.
Participate in engineering planning at every cadence.
Work with the Technical Architect to adopt AI development best practices that increase velocity and quality.
Support and grow the existing Rails-based product, with attention to technical sustainability and delivery cost.
Partner with the Lead Product Manager and both tech leads on cross-functional delivery planning.