Director Software Development

Radwell International, Inc.•Willingboro, NJ

61d

About The Position

Lead software development and technical architecture definition in support of Radwell International. Including but not limited to software development execution, SCRUM, XP and other Agile SDLC practices to further the team's goal, of delivering measurable increments of value to the system during each iteration. Ensure software architecture and software development practices employ current standards and continuously move in the direction of emerging technologies, performance improvement and environment stability.

Requirements

10+ years experience working in software development including both on prem and cloud based software stacks
10+ years experience working in digital / ecommerce in B2B and B2C across industrial, manufacturing or other industries with high volume / complex sales through digital ecommerce channels
5+ years of mobile app development experience in Windows, .NetMaui, iOS, and Android environments.
10+ years of experience working with senior stakeholder, managing change and scope of work
5+ years of building / leading multiple teams (direct reports), external SI vendors, and contractors across multiple technologies
15+ years experience delivering software products using SAFe, XP, Scrum or other Agile delivery methodologies
Leading multiple development teams ensuring high quality technical documentation and practices
Formulate release and sprint implementation plans and work with development teams to prepare estimates for the assigned activities/work items
Solution design all elements of the implementation by working closely with product, architecture, analysts, and developers
Review & manage code development in a timely and high-quality manner while leveraging modern software development methodologies and automation including TDD (test driven development), code reviews, containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), DevOps (e.g. Azure, Heroku, Lambda), CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub, Sentry, CircleCI), and testing automation (e.g. Leapworks, Jest, Cypress, etc.)
15+ years experience working with on / offshore resources, contracting development staff, managing technology SOW, MSAs and building out multiple development teams
15+ years working with cross-functional teams (sales, marketing, UX designers, product) to develop optimal customer experience solution
10+ years of technical evaluation of various platforms, understanding technology, cost, and time tradeoffs
10+ years' experience some of the following technologies
Enterprise commerce technologies such as Adobe Commerce, Salesforce Cloud, and others (e.g. Adobe Experience Cloud including Adobe Commerce, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Platform, Day CQ, OSGi, Apache Sling, Apache Sightly, Adobe Dispatcher, etc.)
Have real-world experience with writing code for software engineering, including languages (e.g., C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS), frameworks (e.g., .NET Core, ASP.NET Core), and common libraries.
10+ years experience with REST, GraphQL, API design patterns, scalable containerized systems, and microservices
10+ years or mastery in Java and/or Node.js, React, Bootstrap, and experience with multiple opensource technologies like; Spring, Tomcat, Nginx, Elastic Search, etc.
10+ years strong knowledge of various relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL, MariaDB, Postgres SQL, MySQL,etc.) noSQL databases (e.g. Redis, columnar, GraphDB, etc.), Cloud services (e.g. Azure, AWS)
Have real-world experience with architecting changes and improvements to large-scale and high-volume databases.
Have real-world experience with managing infrastructure on a cloud platform such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Have real-world experience with training and mentoring software engineers of lesser experience, becoming a force-multiplier and generally improving teams' confidence, proficiency, and excellence.
Have a passion for creating reliable applications and testing that reliability through automated means - e.g., end-to-end, integration, unit, stress, and load tests.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Must be fluent in English.

Nice To Haves

Experience with A/B testing including is a plus
Have team lead and supervision experience.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the full-stack delivery and implementation of software code (primarily using C# and JavaScript) in a complex environment with dozens of services comprising e-commerce platforms with hundreds of thousands of monthly active users.
Development Standards and Policies - follow standards for production code including but not limited to, check-in policies, naming conventions, static code analysis, documentation requirements and unit tests.
Manage changes and improvements to large, high-volume, and distributed, relational databases while maintaining performance, reliability, and data integrity.
Lead team architecture and implementation efforts.
Contribute to the research, development, and implementation of software architecture strategies - constantly improving our codebase to be more scalable, maintainable, and consistent with current best practices.
Contribute to the research, development, and implementation of cloud infrastructure architecture strategies - improving our cloud infrastructure to be more scalable, maintainable, cost-effective, reliable, and generally consistent with current best practices.
Contribute to the research, development, and implementation of instrumentation measures such as CI/CD, Kubernetes (K8s), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and so on.
Contribute to the implementation of instrumentation for telemetry, metrics, analytics, KPIs, etc., measuring the technical and business performance of e-commerce systems.
Contribute to documentation of e-commerce software systems through code documentation, knowledgebase documentation, version control, and release notes.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, requirements analysts, quality assurance (QA) analysts, specialist consultants, and so on, to engineer and implement technical solutions to business problems.
Contribute to the training and mentorship of newer teammates and less-experienced software engineers.
Create software applications that are secure in accordance with enterprise and industry best practices, guidelines, and requirements.
Demonstrate subject matter expertise in assigned domain - e.g., a contributor assigned to a domain such as checkout should have a strong understanding of the checkout process, implementation, limitations, opportunities, metrics, KPIs, etc.
Development Standards and Policies - follow standards for production code including but not limited to, check-in policies, naming conventions, static code analysis, documentation requirements and unit tests
Provide release support and training to end-users on the software the team has created.
Demonstrate a proficient understanding of systems, processes, and procedures; applies this knowledge constructively when completing assignments.
Demonstrate a proficient understanding of Radwell International operational functions (i.e. sales order processing, purchasing, inventory management, shipping, and accounting) and the related software interaction.
Engage in continuous self improvement and team improvement activities, including but not limited to independent study of technical topics, peer to peer training, and attainment of external certifications related to the tools and technologies utilized by the team.
Other tasks may also be required from time to time, at the discretion of management, in order to achieve department and company objectives.