What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Software Development position at Planet DDS?
Development managers play a crucial role in fostering and maintaining culture, professionalism, and team dynamics. The candidate should be prepared to invest in team member professional development and growth for both technical and soft skills. Managers should have strong technical skills personally with particular attention to the entirety of what it takes to release successfully. While staying on top of the day-to-day work is important, managers also must identify and implement productivity enhancements such as task automation, process improvements, deeper test coverage, and cross-training.
This is a hybrid position working out of our Akron, OH office.
Job Duties:
• Create and maintain a culture of excellence within her/his geographically distributed team(s)
• Understand the key metrics that agile teams need to be effective and be able to implement and deliver these consistently
• Help drive technical decisions such as architecture, design patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and coding practices to support scalable, resilient, high-performing solutions
• Handle multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Navigate ambiguity and deliver incrementally in the right direction
• Assess and raise risks across the Planet DDS solutions
• Keep abreast of technology industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices, so you can recommend new tools and technologies
• Contribute to engineering department strategy, goal setting, processes, and budget
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, regulatory and other business systems
• Other duties as assigned
Skills and Qualifications:
• 5-7 years in full-lifecycle software engineering
• 3 years as a manager/lead in an engineering organization
• 5 years as a developer on a multi-person engineering team
• Hands on development experience with the Microsoft technology stack particularly .NET, SQL Server and React.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring and coaching engineers
• Deep understanding and experience with Agile principles and practices
• Strong skills in interpersonal relationships and team building
• Excellent English communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major or equivalent years of experience
• Each of the following would be a plus:
o Broad work in commercial software – off the shelf delivered on premise or SaaS (preferred)
o Extensive experience with cloud product development and release
o CI/CD – both constructing the pipeline and establishing best practices
o Azure
o Dental industry knowledge
o Imaging, particularly DICOM, experience
PLANET DDS CORE IDEOLOGY
Why are we here?
Unleashing dentists and their staff to focus on patient care.
Where are we headed?
In the next 5 years, Planet DDS will remain the leading provider of cloud-based technology solutions in North America, expanding to serve more than 25,000 dental practices.
How do we get there?
To encourage measurable progress toward our vision and make the best decisions on behalf of employees and customers, we adopted a set of common values:
Collaborative – Working independently and across teams, we create scalable solutions to enable company growth
Empathetic – We are educated on the experience of our customers and feel vested in their success
Accountable – We feel ownership for the quality of our work and take pride in the positive outcomes
Trustworthy – We operate with integrity and honest, making promises we know that we can keep
Ambitious – We are driven by our ability to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders
An Equal Opportunity Employer – Including Disability/Veterans
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Salary : $125,000 - $143,000
