Sr. Software Development Manager

Career Opportunities with Grand Circle Corporation

A great place to work.

We are excited to be expanding our creative and technical digital teams to support our ever-growing and ever-evolving website and online presence. We are looking for a Sr. Software Development Manager who wants to play an integral role in positioning our brands and maintaining the integrity, quality, and authenticity for which we’re known in the travel space.

The Sr. Software Development Manager will be responsible for the strategy and execution of full stack web development and operations at GCC. The ideal candidate will have experience leading digital initiatives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with a proven track record of demonstrating exceptional results through best practices and working in a high-performing team.

What you’ll do:

• Directly manage and grow the leaders of our Development teams, and coach them to manage and grow their own direct reports.
• Demonstrate technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of web solutions from technical design through development, automated testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance/operations.
• Create, review, and suggest improvements to requirements, solution designs and code reviews.
• Lead the teams to establish data driven metrics to understand if the systems in the Web Development organization are operating as expected.
• Help mentor, coach, and develop the Web development team leaders responsible for implementing our CMS components and their supporting services using technologies such as React, Next.js, C#, Docker, Redis and others.
• Define development goals and career development plans for your teams.
• Deploy to the cloud using Azure.
• Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.
• Balance calculated risks, tradeoffs, and consequences in prioritizing and optimizing for sustainable time to value and high-quality engineering.
• Provide ongoing support to internal customers and technical teams.
• Partner with our process leaders to maintain and continuously improve agile delivery and engineering practices.
• Focus on learning, applying, and extending best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on skills development.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in development of which 3 – 5 years has been as a hands-on leader of a team, and ideally some of which has been as a leader of leaders.
• Experience in leading teams designing and creating code for a customer facing application and web services (SaaS or public web) in Next.js and C#.
• Ability to lead a team to architect scalable, performant, secure, and reusable solutions.
• Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring developers; providing constructive feedback to help them improve.
• Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable and persuasive communication.
• Being a passionate and engaged collaborator and communicator with the ability to influence partners and peers at different levels.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Strong in Design Driven Design, SOLID principles, and Design Patterns.
• Should display a high degree of adaptability to become familiar with new technologies as needed and successfully manage the daily challenges of a technical environment.
• Confident in best practices, to help the team increase the quality of the code.
• Proven success working in a fast-paced environment and within various sized organizations.