The Role:
As a Software Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers in design, development, test, and deployment of a range of products on mobile platforms. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You will be helping to hire and build your team and systems.
You will be a strong leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly, with a consistent track record of delivery. In this role, you will:
· Be responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle of a key product sub-system
· Manage and execute against project plans and delivery commitments
· Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team of engineers within an Agile/Scrum environment
· Manage of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team
· Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach
· Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
· Experience in Computer Science fundamentals
· 7+ years of experience building production software systems
· 2+ years of people management experience
· Experience working with networking or communications devices in an embedded environment
· Master’s degree
· A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of shipping software on time
· The ability to take raw product requirements and develop software architectures and designs to bring them to life
· Experience porting firmware to new hardware platforms and integrating new hardware capabilities
· Extensive knowledge of the Linux kernel and experience adding new hardware drivers
· Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Java, C/C++, Objective C, Python) and open-source technologies (Linux, SQLite, OpenGL, busybox)
· Development experience on mobile platforms such as Google Android, WebOS, Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry.
· Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical colleagues
· Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
· A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional, projects
· Strong business and technical vision
· Deep hands-on technical expertise
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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