Software Development Manager

Stream Companies • West Chester, PA

6d

About The Position

Stream Companies is seeking a proactive, hands-on Software Development Manager to serve as a key engineering leader for their industry-leading marketing technology (MarTech) SaaS platform. This platform empowers automotive retailers and car dealerships to better engage, convert, and serve modern car shoppers. Working under the direct guidance of the VP of Product, the Software Development Manager will be one of two peer engineering managers responsible for driving overall platform delivery and next-gen data/AI capabilities. This role requires a true "player-coach" mindset, involving strategic direction from executive leadership, active management of engineers, contribution to the codebase, and close collaboration with a peer manager to ensure cohesive platform architecture and unified release cycles.

Requirements

• Strong, practical experience building and maintaining web applications within the following tech stack: PHP, Laravel, and Vue.js 3.0
• Experience with AWS, with an emphasis on serverless architecture and Lambdas
• Experience with Claude/Anthropic, Snowflake
• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years in a hands-on people management role overseeing software developers, ideally within a B2B SaaS or MarTech environment
• Demonstrated experience balancing direct management responsibilities with writing code, conducting technical reviews, and actively building features
• Proven ability to lead development teams through disciplined 2-week agile sprints, keeping velocity predictable and removing blockers
• Ability to take direct guidance from executive leadership, translate product requirements into clear developer tasks, and collaborate across functional teams

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience building software for automotive dealerships, retail technology, or customer-facing marketing platforms
• Hands-on experience working with Snowflake beyond basic warehousing, including exposure to building data pipelines and integrating AI/LLM components (e.g., RAG, vector embeddings)

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor engineers, conduct regular 1-on-1s, and foster a collaborative team culture focused on delivering value to automotive dealers
• Actively participate in the build, including shipping features, building POCs, and helping the team solve complex MarTech and web-scale engineering challenges
• Execute the expansion of generative AI features and our data ecosystem under direction from leadership
• Build out platform capabilities that enhance dealership-to-buyer interactions
• Drive operational excellence across both build teams, keeping teams focused and accountable to strict 2-week sprint cycles, removing daily blockers, sizing work accurately, and ensuring high-quality, continuous delivery
• Work closely with the VP, taking direct strategic direction to execute roadmap priorities and ensure tight frontend-to-backend integration with UX/UI design

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed