Software Engineering Manager: Applications Team

The Software Engineering Manager position manages and oversees the design and development of software within the Citys content management system WordPress. You will direct the work of a team of engineers to ensure best practices around software development for the Citys digital front door . This role reports to the Director of Software Engineering.

You will:

Oversee the daytoday operations of application engineering team

Build bespoke solutions for departments across the city either greenfield or modernization of existing legacy applications

Mentor and grow a team of engineers while keeping them engaged and focused on the Office of Innovation and Technologys goals

Be an advocate for consistency and cohesion for the project from a technical perspective

Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices 

Conduct thoughtful code reviews

Help create a collaborative and inclusive environment where engineers are encouraged to ask questions and work in the open

Create and reinforce a culture of quality

Help conceptualize build and manage tooling that contributes to Developer Experience automates away friction and contributes to velocity

Coordinate team vision and roadmap setting with the Director of Software Engineering

Continuously improve upon your teams process and best practices ensuring the effective delivery of highquality software while balancing the constraints of existing systems to improve the quality of digital services for residents of Philadelphia

Direct the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from a growthforward perspective

Support maintain and improve production systems used for critical City workloads

Essential Functions

Management

Supports and expands a culture that is supportive of diversity equity and inclusion were employees from all backgrounds can succeed and thrive.

Helps to project timelines and capacity for individual team members.

Encourages new growth for employees within their preview

Conducts performance reviews.

Models best practices.

Operations

Coordinates the development and implementation of major project timelines where appropriate.

Follows effective relationship and project management processes in coordination with Digital Service (DS) team members and engagement managers at the City

Unblocks team members from technical issues.

Relationship Building

Develop and maintain strong partnerships with key members of the Digital Services team

Coordinate and collaborate with partners in Digital Services including User Experience and Content Strategy

Competencies Knowledge Skills and Abilities

Proven track record managing complex projects.

Ability to solve complex business problems and develop user/businessdriven technology strategies and plans.

Strong written and oral communication skills (including ability to present ideas in userfriendly businessfriendly and technical language) and interpersonal skills with a focus on rapportbuilding listening and questioning skills.

Proven analytical and problemsolving abilities including ability to anticipate identify and solve critical problems.

Exceptional customer service orientation.

While you wont necessarily be working with these technologies every day you should have a broad enough understanding of them to help support your team.

Understanding of the modern web platform and common architectures

Serverside programming languages such as .NET Core or

Command line and shell scripts

Web application security concerns and ways to mitigate them

Git or similar version control systems

SQL and usage of relational databases such as PostgreSQL Oracle MSSQL

Amazon Web Services

CI/CD pipelines

API design and development

Especially strong candidates will have prior experience building new features in a Enterpriselevel content management system with many active users.

Bonus points for having actively completed successful modernization projects of legacy services. 

Qualifications :

We care more about what you can do than where you learned how to do it. That said a bachelors degree is a good foundation for the work and jobrelated experience around the competencies above is acceptable as well. The ideal candidate will have at least three to five years of supervisory management or project management experience.

Additional Information :

Salary Range: $105000 $115000

Starting salary to be determined based on experience and qualifications. 

All applications should include the following: 
    A onepage cover letter clarifying your interest and qualifications for the role. It really helps us understand why youre interested in this position. We read every single one!
    Your resume or curriculum vitae. 
   Optionally an online professional portfolio or public GitHub account. 
We wont accept or review incomplete applications.

Work Setting: inperson (onsite)

Discover the Perks of Being a City of Philadelphia Employee:
   We offer Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
   Our wellness program offers eligibility into the discounted medical plan
   Employees receive paid vacation sick leave and holidays
   Generous retirement savings options are available
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Join the City of Philadelphia team today and seize these incredible benefits designed to enhance your financial wellbeing and personal growth!

*The successful candidate must be a city of Philadelphia resident within six months of hire

Effective May 22 2023 vaccinations are no longer required for new employees that work in nonmedical nonemergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia. As a result only employees in positions providing services that are patientfacing medical care (ex: Nurses doctors emergency medical personnel) must be fully vaccinated.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime