Manager Development
$175,000–$200,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead and professionally develop a team of software engineers, cultivating processes and standards while supporting delivery of features for ClearanceJobs.com. Balance hands-on technical involvement—code review, architecture decisions, and release quality—with coaching, growing, and setting direction for your team. Conduct one-on-ones to understand goals and blockers, assess delivery processes, and identify improvement opportunities. Guide architecture and design decisions for new features, manage technical trade-offs, and ensure adherence to coding and testing standards. Oversee production reliability by triaging incidents and driving root-cause analysis. Collaborate with product owners, designers, and support teams to implement high-quality features and resolve complex issues. Leverage AI tools effectively across the SDLC to accelerate implementation and review.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on proficiency building and maintaining web applications with Laravel and modern PHP, TypeScript and VueJS, and MySQL—comfortable reviewing pull requests and writing code alongside the team.
- Working knowledge of AWS and cloud-hosted application infrastructure, including deployment pipelines, monitoring, and cost consciousness.
- Ability to guide architecture and design decisions for new product features, weigh technical trade-offs, and hold the team to shared coding, testing, and documentation standards.
- Experience with unit and end-to-end testing tools, and using automated test coverage to ensure quality product releases.
- Ownership of production reliability: triaging incidents, driving root-cause analysis, and converting findings into preventative work.
- Experience with secure development practices appropriate to a platform serving security-cleared professionals and government contractors.
- Fluency with version control, CI/CD, and development management tooling to keep delivery predictable and visible.
- Experience leading a software engineering team, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development through regular one-on-ones and growth plans.
- Comfort giving and receiving direct, timely feedback, and managing performance constructively.
- Ability to plan and sequence work across competing priorities—scoping, capacity planning, and setting clear commitments with stakeholders.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including translating technical detail for Product, Sales, and executive audiences.
- A partnership mindset with Product, Design, and QA—shared ownership of outcomes rather than handoffs.
- Judgment about when to step in technically and when to delegate, building the team's autonomy and technical depth over time.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with Jira software management tools.
- Experience with Linux, and containerized workloads using Docker.
- Ability to leverage AI tools effectively across the modern SDLC — using coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, etc.) for implementation, code review, testing, and debugging, with sound judgment about when AI accelerates the work and when it doesn't.
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