Manager - Software Development

Hands-On Development and Technical Leadership (Approximately 40%)

Minimum Qualifications or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including substantial hands-on work with .NET, C#, web technologies, SQL Server, API design, and system integration.
• 3+ years managing or supervising software developers, with accountability for both delivery and people, including coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, and hiring.
• Current hands-on development practice; this is a player-coach role, and candidates should be actively writing, reviewing, and shipping production code today.
• Demonstrated record of taking projects from approved concept to production across multiple concurrent efforts, using agile delivery practices, peer code review, CI/CD, and version control with Git.
• Hands-on experience with modern AI-assisted development tools as a core part of daily work (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, or comparable), including validating and refining AI-generated code before production.
• Experience owning production support, including incident response, root cause analysis, and release coordination.
• Clear, proactive communication with senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders, including status reporting and expectation management.

Preferred Qualifications or Experience:

• Experience in aviation, aerospace, manufacturing, MRO, or other regulated operational environments.
• Experience building AI-enabled features into business applications, including large language model integration, prompt engineering, or agentic workflows.
• Experience standing up or maturing software development processes at a small or mid-size company.
• Experience integrating with or supporting ERP and other operational business platforms (Microsoft Dynamics GP, Corridor Aviation, or comparable) and reporting tools such as Power BI or Crystal Reports.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Directly supervises the Software Developer team (approximately three to six developers as the department grows), including performance management, corrective action, and hiring recommendations in partnership with HR.
• Serves as the escalation point for the development team and coordinates with IT peers across infrastructure, security, and support.

Knowledge, Skills, and Other Attributes:

• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, with a constructive, solution-focused approach to challenges.
• Skilled at delegating, managing workloads, and developing the capabilities of a growing team.
• Converts vision and vetted priorities into structured execution, treating estimates, commitments, and status as professional obligations.
• Energized by building, staying hands-on in the code while leading.
• Strong architectural judgment in .NET, C#, SQL Server, web development, API design, integration patterns, and secure development practices.
• High fluency with AI-assisted development, with clear judgment about where it accelerates work and an informed view of where the field is heading.
• Embodies trust, respect, and collaboration, treats business stakeholders as partners, and builds people and systems for the long term.

Other Duties:

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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