Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Iridium Satellite, LLC•Longmont, CO

27d•Onsite

About The Position

Iridium is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of skilled engineers developing a state-of-the-art satellite ground system and user equipment for the company’s satellite-based position, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. In this role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership in the design and architecture for PNT software products. If you are confident in your abilities to foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement and are excited about the opportunity to develop new systems based on a unique and patented space-based technology, the we want to talk to you!

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
10+ years’ experience developing software applications
Previous management experience required, including leading and encouraging self-directed teams
8+ years experience with Linux
8+ years experience with modern programming languages, including C/C++ and Python
Experience with modern software architecture principles, including micro-service development
Experience with unit testing
Experience with relational and non-relational databases
Practitioner of continuous integration and GIT
Capable of being a strong motivator and source of direction for your team and role modelling commitment to your team’s goals
Have a people-oriented mentality and be able to build meaningful relationships with senior leadership on your team and in other departments
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues clearly and confidently, and recognize and adapt to different communication techniques
Be able to analyze and understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions, come up with and evaluate unique solutions, and see those solutions through to completion
Be independent and self-motivated and demonstrate a high degree of creativity, flexibility, and resourcefulness
Have a strong sense of urgency in driving projects to completion and be motivated to achieve outcomes and results
Can thrive in a dynamic environment and efficiently manage multiple or complex projects while continuously looking for new and enhanced ways of doing things
This position directly performs under, supports, or is exposed to a U.S. government contract. To comply with the requirements of that U.S. government contract, applicants for this position must be U.S. citizens
Be able to travel up to 10%

Responsibilities

Foster and role model a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence
Mentor, train, and develop your team by performing regular check-ins, discussing career growth opportunities, giving constructive feedback, and managing conflict when necessary
Lead recuiting efforts to ensure that the PNT Engineering team has the proper development skills
Perform as a senior contributor for the design and architecture for PNT software products
Interface with R&D groups to understand and advance the product architecture
Become the team’s subject matter expertise in the Receiver product and product architecture
Develop and maintain the receiver product knowledge base and technical onboarding artifacts
Work with Product Management leads to establish well-defined feature scope
Own the Receiver product deliveries ensuring that we deliver on time and on budget
Function as a technical lead and subject matter expert, collaborating with other leads and SMEs, to develop the product backlog
Work with development staff to ensure they understand their assignments and are able to start each sprint effectively
Work with Product Leads to properly decompose user stories into detailed level tasking with the development team
Perform development, unit testing, and integration activities
Serve as a model for software quality and best-practices
Work directly with internal and external customers
Work in a dynamic team-oriented environment using agile methodologies
Drive the continuous efforts to develop software development processes