Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quarterhill Inc. is seeking a Manager, Software Development to lead engineering for its next-generation tolling and intelligent transportation platform. The role combines people leadership and technical oversight, including ownership of the software development life cycle, engineering execution, staffing, delivery, quality, and release management.
Responsibilities
- Manage and continuously improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process — planning, estimation, development, code review, testing, release, and maintenance
- Set and measure quarterly goals for direct reports
- Provide coaching and mentoring for direct reports' career development and advancement
- Conduct performance reviews
- Hire, develop, and retain engineers; foster an engineering culture of ownership, peer review, and continuous improvement
- Own engineering capacity planning and staffing against the product roadmap, in partnership with product leadership
- Provide technical leadership on the product's core development initiatives — a cloud-native, event-driven microservices platform (services in a modern strongly typed language such as Rust or Go; TypeScript front ends; GraphQL APIs; Kubernetes-based deployment)
- Participate in proposal development with specific focus on the technical response sections
- Coordinate with application services and support teams on systems support transition
- Partner with QA leadership on quality strategy and process improvement
- Coordinate release management and maintenance activities with operations and maintenance leads
Skills
- Bachelor's degree is required
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading software development teams
- 10+ years of software development experience, including SDLC management
- Strong track record of delivering projects on-time and on-budget
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven problem solving skills
- Thrives in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment
- Decisive
- Positive, proven leadership attitude is a must
- Master's degree desired
- Strong technical background in web application development and distributed/cloud systems; familiarity with modern stacks (e.g., Rust or Go services, TypeScript front ends, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures) strongly preferred
- Project management skills are preferred
- Experience in tolling, intelligent transportation systems, payments, or other mission-critical transaction systems is a plus
Benefits
- Paid days off ( i. e. vacatio n, sick days, bereavement leave)
- Health and Dental plans
- Retirement plans
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Employee referral program
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