Software Development Manager - Platform

American Innovations LTD • Austin, TX

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About The Position

Are you looking for a new Leadership role? Are you looking to provide production support for mission critical applications? If the answer is yes, then we need to talk!

American Innovations is a technology leader providing critical software and services that supports our nation’s most important infrastructure in the energy space. We do this by providing a wide range of leading-edge technology solutions spanning across our Mobile edge computing, IoT and SaaS platforms.

Requirements

• 8+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through experience
• 5 years of experience as a solution architect, tech lead or team lead
• 3+ years of people management experience
• 3+ years of experience with responsibility for technology direction, execution, and application support
• 2+ years of experience with agile transformation
• Advanced proficiency with artificial intelligence-powered software development tools and practices (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, AI/ML-based code review & analysis, AI planning/design tools), with a proven track record of advocating for and enabling their adoption within engineering organizations
• Experience working in a cloud-native environment
• Strong proficiency in C# and the .NET ecosystem.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc)
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying .NET applications in Azure cloud environments
• Experience working with observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Dynatrace, etc)
• Experience deploying software to a containerized environment (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
• Thorough understanding of microservices architecture, service scalability and performance optimization
• Experience designing secure solutions or working in regulated cloud environments

Nice To Haves

• Computer Science or Equivalent Engineering Degree desired
• Experience with React, Angular or similar technology a plus
• Experience building or operating internal developer platforms or enabling developer self-service is a strong plus
• Experience with IAM technologies a plus

Responsibilities

• Managing, mentoring, and guiding the platform engineering team.
• Periodically supporting hands-on development efforts, especially for prototypes or non-critical-path projects.
• Ensuring the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, scalability and observability of solutions developed by the teams and third-party providers.
• Championing and leading the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies throughout the platform team’s development lifecycle—including coding, planning, designing, architecting, and documentation—to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation.
• Mentoring and guiding the professional development of American Innovations technical staff.
• Identifying and recommending opportunities for developing product functional and technical strategies for your domain.
• Developing actionable short and long-term product roadmaps, by partnering with business leaders, product managers, systems architects, Security Operations, Support and more experienced engineers.
• Making decisions in resolving design challenges.
• Creating and overseeing strategic product design from the engineering perspective.
• Overseeing an engineering team of 4-6 ensuring the delivery of commitments aligned to our engineering roadmaps.
• Owning the platform team’s product roadmap by gathering requirements from internal development teams, prioritizing enhancements, and driving adoption and satisfaction across the organization.
• Applying knowledge of standards, policies, best practice and organizational structure so that you can work both independently and collaboratively within your team and with key stakeholders.
• Promoting and integrating the use of AI-powered tools and methodologies in daily engineering activities, fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement across development, operations, and internal collaboration.
• Providing informal guidance and sharing knowledge with colleagues to enable them to contribute to the team’s objectives.
• Ensuring the quality of tasks, deliverables, services and information provided by your team – through the quality of your own work and the support you provide to others - to ensure that your team delivers high-quality, maintainable software which adheres to American Innovations standards and policies.
• Supporting the evaluation and resolution of technical challenges and blockers to minimize their impact on the team’s delivery and/or supported products.
• Identifying and supporting improvements and innovation in technologies/practices within your team that would benefit the business, e.g. efficiency in the software development process or improved customer experience.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Company Provided Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Family Leave
• Matching 401k
• Supportive and collaborative environments
• A rewarding culture, with a focus on positive business practices and protecting the environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree