Software Development Manager (On-site)

The Wonderful Company•Shafter, CA

13d•$170,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Wonderful Orchards is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead developers, partner with stakeholders, and set the technical strategy for building and maintaining custom applications, enterprise integrations, and reporting solutions. The manager owns application architecture, delivery priorities, team development, production reliability, and modernization planning across environments primarily built with .NET and Oracle technologies. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, including architecture and code reviews and complex troubleshooting, as well as responsibility for team and application portfolio performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Ten or more years of experience in application development, software architecture, or enterprise systems.
Five or more years of experience leading software-development teams, including coaching, performance management, and resource planning.
Strong experience with C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, relational data modeling, and REST APIs.
Demonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise applications, database solutions, and system integrations.
Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, automated build and deployment pipelines, code-review practices, and structured software-development processes.
Experience managing production applications, including incident response, root-cause analysis, release management, and operational support.
Ability to manage competing priorities, technical debt, project delivery, and long-term platform health.
Experience managing contractors, vendors, project budgets, and statements of work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risks and tradeoffs to business and IT leaders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite, including inbound and outbound integrations and the underlying data model.
Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React.
Experience with Tableau or comparable reporting and analytics platforms.
Experience with mobile or cross-platform application development, including .NET MAUI.
Project or program management experience.
Experience supporting agricultural, logistics, utility, or other operational business systems.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and evaluate .NET and Oracle developers, developing their technical and leadership capabilities.
Establish team goals, allocate resources, manage workloads, and support succession planning and professional development.
Own application roadmaps, priorities, delivery commitments, and the long-term health of the application portfolio.
Partner with business and IT leaders to define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and establish realistic delivery plans.
Provide architectural direction for .NET applications, Oracle database solutions, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
Establish and enforce standards for design, development, code review, testing, security, documentation, deployment, and support.
Oversee Azure DevOps backlogs, Git repositories, build and release pipelines, and related development controls.
Ensure production reliability through monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
Plan and lead platform upgrades, application modernization, technical-debt reduction, and application retirement.
Manage contractors, consulting firms, budgets, statements of work, and vendor performance.
Communicate delivery status, risks, resource constraints, and technical recommendations to business and IT leadership.
Participate directly in architecture reviews, complex troubleshooting, and critical development work when appropriate.