Software Development Manager

Job Description

Responsibilities

Expertise to support and communicate development, test, and release teams across the company.

Lead and coach a growing team of software engineers.

Being a mentor to our engineering teams and guiding them for best possible reliable and maintainable solutions.

Work closely with geographically distributed teams, including Higher Management, Team Leads and engineers across company, to drive key improvements in our existing and new software systems.

Provide expert guidance, hands-on assistance, best practices, and trainings when required.

Collaborate with program management to plan iterations and track progress against the project roadmap.

Collaborate with partner teams and customers to scope out & deliver projects.

Implement practices that enable optimization of delivering the next version software while ensuring high availability in our systems.

Expertise/Experience

5+ years leading teams of software engineers, backend services experience is a plus.

5+ year’s hands on experience in any of the following languages: PHP, JavaScript, C++, Java, Python or C#.

Gaming Application infrastructure design and scalabilities

Play Fab/Photon and Unreal Gaming engines

Familiar with cloud technologies AWS experience is highly desirable.

Knowledgeable about build, test and software release systems, as well as agile software development technologies.

Good working knowledge of Source Control systems and usage patterns, preferably Git.

Familiarity with build and test environments tools is a plus, such as: QuickBuild, Jenkins, Bamboo, Build Forge or any other similar tools.

Experience leading teams that maintain live services and/or application frameworks

Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.

Familiar with continuous integration, unit and functional testing practices, and continuous deployment systems.

Familiarity with the following is plus:

Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning Technologies, Tensorflow

Experiences with RDBM databases, NoSQL Database, Graph Database.