Senior Software Development Manager

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Verizon Connect is guiding a connected world on the go by automating, optimising and revolutionising the way people, vehicles and things move through the world. Our full suite of industry-defining solutions and services put innovation, automation and connected data to work for customers and help them be safer, more efficient and more productive. With more than 3,500 dedicated employees in 15 countries, we deliver leading mobile technology platforms and solutions.

As a SAAS leader, we know our talent is the most important component to our success. We hire top talent and empower them to do their best work. As a division of Verizon, we combine the fun and excitement of a startup environment with the resources, operational excellence, and brand recognition of an established tech giant.

What you’ll be doing…

You will be leading one of our cross functional software development teams, and have the responsibility to grow and develop your team, its members, and help it achieve success in delivering components for our award winning SAAS Fleet Management product, Reveal. The successful candidate will be working out of our Florence office on a hybrid basis, in a hands-on capacity and will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplined squad in an agile environment.

You will be a leader in a very dynamic and successful team, continuously adapting & improving our methodologies and technologies to stay the best in what we are doing: providing innovative fleet tracking software to SMBs and enterprise customers all around the world! A deep understanding of software architecture, platforms, and paradigms are essential for this role.

• Build high performing teams of innovative software professionals by mentoring, coaching and developing internal talent and recruiting industry top talent.

• Manage the personnel on your team. We expect a Development Manager to lead by example in every area, none more so than in the hands on development of our people and our products

• Remove impediments to ease the development path. Drive down the cycle time from idea to customer value.

• Champion innovation, technical excellence, process, and quality in your team.

• Be a decision maker and ensure your team comes on the journey once a decision is made.

• Lead a Cross Functional Team (CFT): you will need to be comfortable with code on multiple platforms, business requirements, deployments, and testing

• Be the primary contact for stakeholders and foster relationships outside of your direct squad

• Collaborate with architecture to ensure we are building the right solution, the right way

• Advocate for and evangelise your team within the organisation

• Ensure appropriate engineering resourcing is in place to deliver the business needs.

What we’re looking for…

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant discipline.

• Relevant experience in directly supervising staff.

• Excellent OOP knowledge and experience. .NET Core, Angular, Native Mobile a distinct advantage.

• Experience with large scale SQL and NoSQL technologies.

• Experience delivering and owning microservices in a SAAS environment.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team, both in team activities and individuals’ professional development

• Experience working in larger project and team environments with product, application support and operations teams, working in a CI/CD environment

• Strong experience in agile/lean methodologies and processes, leading process improvements and engineering disciplines

• Experience in managing the hiring and onboarding process for new team members

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral - with experience in presenting to engineering and product groups

Even better if you have:

• Knowledge of AWS based architectures and services

• Ability to lead systems analysis with application design individually and with an architecture team to deliver detailed application specifications

• Experience mentoring junior developers

• Expert level understanding of SOLID Design principles and practices

• Experience with common patterns in distributed systems (REST, SOA, DDD)

• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines.

• Understanding of GIT, GitLab or related source control technology

• Development experience across a range of technologies that align with ours: .NET, iOS, Android, Angular, QA Automation, SQL Server

• Passion about being a software developer and a strong interest in new and emerging technologies and the ability to drive technical change

• Experience in measuring and improving performance of production systems

• Experience in highly scalable, highly available platforms

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.