Development Manager - Product Teams

Orbus Software

1d•Remote

About The Position

Lead one or two fully remote, cross-functional software development teams building and evolving OrbusInfinity, Orbus Software’s flagship enterprise SaaS product. This is a hands-off leadership role: Technical Leads own day-to-day technical decisions, while the Development Manager coaches and enables the teams, supports sound decisions, and ensures effective delivery processes and consistent engineering practices. The role leads 6–12 direct reports and works closely with Product, Engineering, and senior technical leadership. It is based remotely in Poland, with quarterly (maximum) in-person events bringing together teams from across regions. Employment is on a permanent Polish employment contract (umowa o pracę). OrbusInfinity runs natively in Microsoft Azure and uses modern C#/.NET, React, TypeScript, Cosmos DB, SQL, containers, and Kubernetes. Its micro-frontend and microservice architecture is continuously deployed to highly available, multi-region infrastructure. Teams use Scrum, automated CI/CD, shift-left testing, and maintainable, high-quality code practices, with Azure DevOps, Git, and Azure supporting build and release processes. The manager will help teams focus on customer- and product-relevant work, translate goals into priorities and delivery expectations, make dependencies and risks visible, and improve collaboration and ways of working. Day-to-day backlog and delivery management remain with the appropriate roles. The position contributes to product and technology strategy, engineering standards, team development, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Several years’ experience as a Development Manager or equivalent, leading software development teams.
Experience leading, coaching, and developing software engineers.
Experience working with cross-functional agile teams and guiding delivery through the full software development lifecycle.
Previous hands-on experience as a software engineer or in another technical engineering role.
Experience with modern C#/.NET, React, TypeScript, and cloud-native technologies, or a closely related technology stack.
Good understanding of software development practices, technical delivery, and engineering quality.
Experience owning or managing priorities, roadmaps, dependencies, and delivery risks.
Ability to work effectively with technical specialists and support teams in making sound engineering decisions.
Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working with distributed or international teams.
Fluency in English, the working language of the team and wider organisation.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with cloud, CI/CD, or modern software delivery practices.
Experience working in a SaaS product company.
Experience partnering with Product Managers on roadmap planning and technical runway.
Experience leading or coordinating work across multiple software development teams.
Experience with multi-regional or high-availability infrastructure.
Experience with production incident management and operational improvement.
Experience hiring and building software development teams.
Experience contributing to technical strategy, architecture, reliability, or production operations.
Experience working with agile delivery methods such as Scrum or Kanban.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop one or two software development teams, supporting performance, engagement, and career development.
Set clear expectations, hold regular one-to-ones, provide feedback, lead performance reviews, and ensure direct reports have meaningful development plans.
Lead hiring, onboarding, and team capability development as required.
Create an environment where technical professionals can work with appropriate autonomy and accountability.
Support prioritisation and roadmap planning by aligning relevant roles on outcomes, dependencies, and responsibilities.
Help translate strategic goals into clear priorities, outcomes, and delivery expectations.
Ensure appropriate roles maintain visibility of commitments, progress, risks, and dependencies; help identify organisational blockers and escalate issues when needed.
Ensure cross-team dependencies and delivery risks have clear owners and are addressed early.
Coordinate priorities with Product Managers, Development Managers, and senior Engineering leaders.
Ensure agreed delivery processes are understood and followed throughout the software development lifecycle, from planning and design through delivery and continuous improvement.
Work with Product Managers to understand roadmap goals, identify technical runway needs, and make dependencies visible.
Contribute to Product and Technology strategy, department-level initiatives, and improvements to engineering standards.
Use team health, delivery, and quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities and track progress.
Support changes to team shape, responsibilities, and ways of working as the organisation evolves.
Provide thoughtful challenge on technical proposals, trade-offs, and delivery approaches, connecting technical decisions to product goals and wider engineering needs.
Support consistent engineering standards, quality, and technical decision-making, and encourage maintainability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Help teams build, test, release, and operate software effectively, working with relevant technical specialists as needed.
Support practical ways of working, tooling, and collaboration that help engineers deliver with confidence.
Promote engineering quality, reliability, and continuous improvement; ensure delivery and operational risks are visible, owned, and followed through.
Foster shared ownership and continuous delivery excellence across the Engineering department.
Represent the teams in relevant product and engineering forums and support knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.
Build trusted relationships with Product, Engineering, and senior technical stakeholders; connect people across teams and departments.
Work with Technical Leads, Product Managers, other Development Managers, and technical specialists to resolve blockers, manage dependencies, and improve ways of working.