Software Development Manager

Due to the continued expansion of an established Constructions software delivery company, they are now seeking to fill a position that is open for a Software Development Manager to join their team in the Lancashire/Liverpool region.

They are seeking a Software Development Manager who wishes to progress their career and help the MD with product development and road mapping.

The company’s flagship product is a Solution for the Construction Industry around Compliance with Health and Safety regulations.

It’s a small 4-person Dev team and therefore you will be hands-on but also customer-facing for customer requirement gathering.

The responsibilities of the Software Development Manager will be:

To deliver quality software solutions to meet customer needs and for the ongoing development of a successful Industry leading product.

• Designing and developing software enhancements.
• Supervised a team of four developers.
• To design and deploy a remote working environment, structure, and processes.
• Liaising with the management team on innovation and product development.
• Planning and organising software development schedules.
• Ensuring customer projects are delivered according to agreed timescales.
• Use Azure DevOps to log all development, manage the source code repository, and track updates.
• Establish processes and the development cycle to cover design, build, test and release into a production environment.

There is some requirement for customer-facing activity.

Here are some attractive benefits for the Software Development Manager:

✔️ A competitive and generous salary, dependent on experience

✔️ Training and development of leading-edge technology.

✔️ A caring employer

✔️ An opportunity to make a difference with the product roadmap.

✔️ Company pension scheme of 8%.

✔️ 25 days + statutory holiday. Hours Mon-Fri 9 - 5.

The Key Skills of the Software Development  Manager will include:

• Have at least five years’ experience in software design and development.
• Have experience working with the Microsoft .Net environment.
• Previous leadership skills would be an advantage.
• Capable of understanding customers' business requirements and formulating technical solutions.
• Be able to work in a team environment as part of the Company’s management team.
• Have good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to deal with customers.
• Prepared to work additional hours as and when required.

Desirable

Any of the following skills are a major benefit:

• Azure, AWS, Cloud Computing
• Leadership/Management

The Tech Stack includes:

ASP.Net Web Forms – legacy systems

ASP.NET MNC – a couple of systems

ASP.NET Web APIs/.Net APIs for backend

AngularJS/Angular2+ for front end

EXPO combined with React Native

SQL Server