As a senior member of the IT leadership team, this position will guide the design and development of our software solutions to meet future business needs. This position requires an experienced, hands-on leader with the ability to coach and lead our global team (located in Ft Lauderdale, Florida and Pune, India) of software engineers in all phases of software development including gathering business requirements from key stakeholders, planning, coding, testing/quality assurance, and ongoing maintenance. Delivers "fit for purpose" solutions on time and on budget that improve operational efficiencies and create and sustain a superior customer experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Oversee team leads located both in US and India and their work in the development, quality assurance, and production environments to ensure software integration/development projects align with business growth/optimization goals.
Mentor/coach engineers to utilize best practices on design sessions, unit testing, and code reviews.
Manage the day-to-day activities of projects and staff. Communicate with the global development team routinely to ensure appropriate prioritization of work so deliverables are on schedule.
Make recommendations to executive management about schedules, prioritization, and resource allocation. Align with other IT leadership to ensure knowledge transfer and excellent communication across teams.
Work with key stakeholders to design and deliver/implement new technology enabled features that improve our customers' experiences.
Fine tune overall system performance and continuously identify performance bottleneck/improvement opportunities to ensure overall health of our systems.
Manage software development KPI's, develop and maintain SOP’s, technology standards and create reports for senior leadership team.
Required Skills
Required Experience
A proven track record as a software development leader, including 10+ years of technical experience as a software developer.
Ability to hire and retain talented software engineers both US based and globally to create a continuously improving, high-performance team. Prior experience managing remote teams including hiring, performance management/coaching, offboarding. Ability to be respectful and handle diversity amongst different cultures. Prior experience working with business operations based in India and best practices in specific cultural engagement tactics highly desired.
Demonstrated track record of hitting deadlines through detailed, organized and planful approach to work; demonstrates urgency and has highly developed problem-solving, technical judgment, risk assessment and negotiation abilities. Can think “outside of the box” and solve complex problems effectively through creative solutions orientation.
Strong written and verbal English communication skills; ability to advocate and influence at all levels within the company; great “translator” of technical concepts to business users
Previous employment within retail or ecommerce business sector and understanding of warehouse/distribution and production facilities a plus
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Along with a generous benefits package and dynamic downtown location, there’s another big benefit to building your career here: you enjoy the best of all worlds in one company. As an industry leader for 30 years, we offer the strength and stability of a large firm, with healthy profitability and exciting career growth. Yet our friendly, team-oriented workplace makes you feel like part of a close family. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, critical care, life AD&D insurance. We also offer a 401 (k) plan, FMLA, Pet Insurance, Continuing Education, Employee Assistance, and additional discount programs. For more information about our extensive benefits, click here.
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