Director, Product Development
Are you passionate about creating a compelling vision that empowers your team to take initiative and excel while still being tactical and hands on? Do you enjoy focusing on the design, development, and process oversight of software platform solutions? Do you thrive in an agile environment applying strong technical and product lifecycle understanding while working cross-functionally with members of various scrum teams, product teams, and development teams? If so, keep reading!
What You’ll Do
- Manage two scrum teams that design, develop, and maintain software programs for SSG Clients.
- Coach and mentor team on coding and testing best practices.
- Apply extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications and databases according to provided requirements.
- Guide teams to build new functionality within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.
- Assist in the development of short, medium, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives.
- Regularly interact across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met.
Skills & Requirements
- BS or MS degree or equivalent work experience relevant to functional area. 7+ year’s software engineering experience, 4+ years in technical leadership role.
- Experience in an Agile/Scrum development framework.
- High proficiency in cloud design and deployment models including automation, orchestration and scale
- Experience building robust and scalable distributed systems and experience with multi-tiered production application deployments
- Strong organization skills, experience working across large multi-functional teams with indirect influence
- Proficient in Secure coding practices
Why We’re Awesome
At Social Solutions, we’re mission focused and results oriented! We’re a diverse team of innovators, creatives, and digital architects that come together to help organizations transform lives. Social Solutions’ software (SaaS) helps some of the most vulnerable human beings in our society. Our software for Nonprofits allows them to spend less time on compliance and more time on ensuring the effectiveness of their service programs for the people who rely on them. Since our software was designed by direct service works for direct service providers, it also helps them to demonstrate impact to stakeholders.
What You’ll Get
- Amazing coworkers
- 100% employer paid benefits for employees
- 8 hours per quarter of volunteer time
- Company sponsored events and happy hours
- Career advancement opportunities
- That’s not all, folks!
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.