Software Engineering Manager (Remote)

Who we are:

PowerDMS is an Orlando-based SaaS company with a passion for helping organizations grow trust, integrity, and accountability between themselves, their employees, and the communities they serve. We take these values to heart, and our company and technology can be measured by and held to the same standards.

The PowerDMS platform is a single, secure, online location for the organization, management, and distribution of an organization’s most important documents. The software equips employees with essential job knowledge and know-how through electronic policy dissemination, accreditation management, and training capabilities–accessed anytime, from anywhere.

About this role:

As an engineering manager at PowerDMS, the people on your team are your first priority, providing career guidance and growth opportunities. As PowerDMS shifts to our next-generation architecture, you will lead your team members to deliver solutions for our award-winning PowerDMS SaaS products that serve public safety, healthcare, and Fortune 500 organization that leverage cloud-native technologies and patterns, including .NET Core, Kubernetes, TypeScript, and React. You will partner with product management and project management to plan your team roadmap and objectives, and you’ll also work closely with the technical leadership team to help shape and execute the long-term technical vision and strategy of PowerDMS.

What you would do in this role:

• Manage up to two scrum teams of engineers, up to 10 individuals in total
• Conduct performance management for your team, including regularly scheduled 1:1s and annual reviews
• Provide constructive and actionable feedback to team members to enable career development and new opportunities
• Help evaluate and plan new initiatives that your teams will be working on collaboratively with product managers and project managers
• Provide technical oversight in the day-to-day execution of work from the teams, including architectural adherence and code quality
• Be a point of escalation for any technical issues that your teams face
• Broadcast critical information around planning and risks to Build Leadership via regularly occurring opportunities
• Actively participate in planning work for the team via our scrum ceremonies
• Identify ways to improve the teams that you work with
• Participate in technical vision and strategy planning and champion these decisions with your teams
    

What you need to know/have for this role:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to contribute to cross-functional collaboration
• Several years of performance management experience in a technical field
• You know how to get the best out of your team’s performance
• The ability to introduce changes to your teams that improve how they work
• Knowledge of different scalable enterprise architectures, such as monolithic applications, service-oriented architectures, or microservice architectures
• Strong organization and prioritization skills
• Aptitude for software development in client-side and/or server-side technologies
• Understanding of computer science concepts that include object-oriented principles, data structures, and algorithm analysis
• Ability to enforce clean code that can be tested in automated ways, such as unit or functional tests
• Experience with tools that support software development, such as source control, build automation, static code analysis, architectural KPIs, and so on.
• Knowledge of persistence technologies which include relational and/or non-relational databases
• The ability to work as a team member to solve complex problems with your team
• Strong understanding of API Design, both for first-party and third-party consumption
• The skills to deliver production software that starts from ideation
• You enjoy learning new things and never stop
• Rolls easily with an ever-changing environment

Nice to have - what can set you apart from other candidates:

• You’ve led multiple teams working on multiple projects simultaneously
• You’re a servant leader, focusing on your teams’ growth and well-being
• You’ve contributed in a hands-on manner to deliver scalable solutions, possibly using cloud-native patterns and technologies, such as 12-factor app methodology
• You’ve worked on a multi-tenant SaaS or PaaS product
• You know what it takes to deliver vertical slices of features (client-side, server-side, and persistence) to optimize delivery time
• You understand and strive to contribute to a DevOps culture
• You know about CI/CD and what makes a pipeline “good”
• You have experience with microservice architectures, service-oriented architectures, or other distributed architectures
• You’ve been involved in migrating features from a monolithic application to other architectures
• You find ways to creatively address tech debt and the challenges that it brings in your day-to-day work

Working at PowerDMS:

Relationships are a big deal to us—we care greatly for each other, our customers, and our community. We believe a career is a huge part of life’s experience, so why not fill it with purpose, passion, and fun? At PowerDMS, we go to great lengths to hire great people. We believe in leading with innovation and in creating an open environment because we know that creating a place where everyone feels like they belong doesn’t happen accidentally.

PowerDMS believes that with a diverse work culture, we are stronger. By bringing together diverse perspectives, ideas, and viewing problems from a variety of lenses, we are able to be innovative and find better solutions; we are better able to support our customers; we are more competitive in our market; we can recruit, develop, and promote top talent; and we can positively impact the organizations we support.

Our unique workplace has not gone unnoticed, year after year, PowerDMS is named one of Orlando’s Best Places to Work, Best Workplaces for Commuters, one of Florida’s Best Companies to Work for, one of Inc. magazine’s Best Workplaces, and for nine consecutive years one of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. magazine.

Physical/Mental Demands:
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is frequently required to walk, stand, bend, kneel, stoop, communicate, reach and manipulate objects. The position requires mobility. Duties involve moving materials weighing up to 10 pounds on a regular basis such as files, books, office equipment, etc., and may infrequently require moving materials weighing up to 30 pounds. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating equipment such as a computer keyboard, calculator, and standard office equipment. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential job functions of this job. Usual office working conditions: noise level in the work area is typical of most open-workspace office environments (with telephones, personal interruptions, and background noises) and of non-typical workspace environments (with music, cheering/clapping, loud laughter, and bell-ringing/horn blowing).

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

What we offer:
A competitive salary; employer-paid medical and dental insurance for the employee; company-paid short and long term disability benefits and insurance policy; optional Life, AD&D, and Supplemental Insurance; Health Savings account options; Unlimited Paid Time Off plan; 12-week Paid Parental Leave policy; career development and mentoring; casual dress code every day; snack-stocked kitchen; flexible work schedules; employee engagement and reward programs; and a relaxed, flexible work environment that fosters a balance between hard work and fun. 

Sound like you?  Here’s what to do:

Please apply via our Careers page at http://www.powerdms.com/about/careers.  Select the position, click “Apply Now”, and then complete the online form.  From there, we will take a look at your resume and if we think it’s a match, we’ll contact you.  

PowerDMS/IDS =  DFWP/AA/EOE - M/F/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veteran

This position description is a summary of the typical functions of the position, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible position responsibilities, tasks and duties.  Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time. This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment; employment remains “at-will”.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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