Manager Development

DHI Group, Inc.•Denver, CO

3d•$175,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

This role involves leading and professionally developing a team of software engineers, cultivating their processes and standards, and supporting the delivery of features and platform work for ClearanceJobs.com. The product is built on Laravel and modern PHP with a TypeScript and VueJS front end and MySQL, running on AWS with Linux, Docker, and automated CI/CD pipelines. The position requires balancing hands-on technical involvement (code review, architecture, design decisions, release quality) with people management (coaching, growing, and setting direction for the team). The career at DHI will offer exciting challenges and opportunities for growth, with daily learning experiences and chances to make a difference.

Requirements

Hands-on proficiency building and maintaining web applications with Laravel and modern PHP, TypeScript and VueJS, and MySQL.
Comfortable reviewing pull requests and writing code alongside the team.
Working knowledge of AWS and cloud-hosted application infrastructure, including deployment pipelines, monitoring, and cost consciousness.
Ability to guide architecture and design decisions for new product features, weigh technical trade-offs, and hold the team to shared coding, testing, and documentation standards.
Experience with unit and end-to-end testing tools, and using automated test coverage to ensure quality product releases.
Experience with secure development practices appropriate to a platform serving security-cleared professionals and government contractors.
Fluency with version control, CI/CD, and development management tooling to keep delivery predictable and visible.
Experience leading a software engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development through regular one-on-ones and growth plans.
Comfort giving and receiving direct, timely feedback.
Clear written and verbal communication.
A partnership mindset with Product, Design, and QA—shared ownership of outcomes rather than handoffs.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Jira software management tools.
Experience with Linux, and containerized workloads using Docker.
Ability to leverage AI tools effectively across the modern SDLC — using coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, etc.) for implementation, code review, testing, and debugging, with sound judgment about when AI accelerates the work and when it doesn't.

Responsibilities

Lead and professionally develop a team of software engineers.
Cultivate the processes and standards the team works by.
Support the delivery of features and platform work that power ClearanceJobs.com.
Balance hands-on technical involvement (code review, architecture and design decisions, release quality) with people management (coaching, growing, and setting direction for the team).
Onboard and familiarize yourself with the company's development environment, tools, processes, and coding standards.
Get to know team members and their roles.
Familiarize yourself with the product or projects, understanding the user base, key features, and overall goal of the application.
Dive into the existing codebase, understanding the architecture, design patterns, and coding conventions.
Contribute to ongoing projects by picking up smaller tasks or bug fixes.
Participate in code review and sprint planning with the team.
Hold one-on-ones with each engineer to understand their goals, strengths, and blockers.
Assess the team's current delivery process and identify early opportunities to improve it.
Identify areas for improvement in development and leadership skills and start learning.
Set short-term and long-term goals for the role and the team, discussing them with leadership for alignment.
Build relationships with team members, stakeholders, and other departments.
Seek feedback from peers and manager regularly to improve skills and performance.
Suggest improvements in development processes or tools.
Document work and share knowledge with the team.
Research latest trends, strategies, and emerging technologies for modern web solutions and contribute to the technical vision.
Create complex prototypes and ensure deliverables are high quality and meet user expectations.
Support system and integration testing activities.
Initiate architecture and design reviews for new product features and adhere to software development standards.
Work with product owners and designers to understand and implement requirements in high-quality product features.
Oversee and contribute to the documentation of production support processes.
Anticipate long-term support issues and plan for corrective actions.
Collaborate with support teams to ensure complex issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Own production reliability: triaging incidents, driving root-cause analysis, and converting findings into preventative work.
Manage performance constructively.
Plan and sequence work across competing priorities, including scoping, capacity planning, and setting clear commitments with stakeholders.
Translate technical detail for Product, Sales, and executive audiences.
Exercise judgment about when to step in technically and when to delegate, building the team’s autonomy and technical depth over time.