Software Development Manager

The Software Development Manager overseesindividual Software Developers and Development teams ensuring Lulus is meeting internal and external stakeholder needs for support and roadmap deliverables. They will ensure development teams aredelivering againsttimelines as well as ensuring developer productivity efficiencyqualityand documentation of the software development process for developers. The Development Manager will be a well-balanced leader cultivating a culture of quality andtimelysoftware delivery from a technical aspect while placing equal emphasis on the growth and impact of each team member from a coaching perspective. The Development Managerwill removeobstacles that impede delivery and create an environment where engineering teams can consistently deliver high-quality Development Manager will workclosely with the Director of Development onday-to-dayoperations to ensure KPIs for individuals and teams are measured and reported transparently as well as help enforce and roll out process change to meet goals andobjectives.

Schedule:The role follows a hybrid schedule based out of our Chico office working onsite Tuesday through Thursday during standard business hours (approximately 9:00 AM5:00 PM).

WhatYoullDo

• Maximize development team throughput by ensuring requirements risks and status are clearly and honestly communicated between developers product and QA enforcing scope and estimation discipline and proactively addressing performance or engagement issues before theyimpactdelivery

• Foster individual and team growth engagement and retention

• Manage the development team including performance reviews and promotions hiring and separation of employees and task assignment workload and performance metric monitoring of team and individual employees

• Develop and execute the technical roadmap in partnership with cross-functionalteams

• Identifysystemic bottlenecks and implement improvements to engineering processes and delivery

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering practices tooling automation and developer experience

• Drive team adoption of AI-assisted development tools and practicesestablishingusage guidelines and mentoring developers to improve productivity and code quality

• Own team deliverables and timelines forming and defending technical opinions on design and scope rather than simply relaying team status to stakeholders

• Monitor and enforce software development practices and processes with teams and individuals

• Participate inon-call schedule and response to incidents ensuring they are resolved quickly with minimal impact

• Lead technical design discussions andfacilitatearchitectural decision-making

• Monitor and enforce code quality standards

WhatYoullNeed

• Bachelors degreeinComputer Science or Engineering

• 8years of relevant software development and/orengineering management experience

• 2 years of direct people management experience with a proven ability to lead coach develop andretainhigh-performing software engineering teams including setting performance expectations providing feedback managing performance and supporting career development

• Excellent communication; written oral and group facilitationwith the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Canwork well underpressure; meetingmultiple and sometimes competing deadlines

• Ability to build andmaintainpositive relationships with teams and individuals

• Strong technical foundation in software engineering with the ability to evaluate technical solutionsparticipatein architectural decisions and effectively partner with senior engineers.

• Knowledge of modern software development tools technologies and application hosting platforms.

• Experienceestablishingand improving engineering practices that support software quality reliability security and maintainability.

• Strong Agile software development knowledge and experience

• Scrummasterexperience

• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants(e.g. GitHub Copilot Claude Cursor) anda track recordof driving team adoptionestablishingusage guidelines or measuring productivity impact.

Nice to Have - Bonus Points!

• Practical experience embedding AI throughout the SDLCleveragingAI-assisted and spec-driven (SDD) development practices across planning code review QA and release automation to improve engineering velocity and quality

• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns(prompt engineering RAG agentic workflows or MCP servers)sufficientto evaluate vendor proposals guide architecture decisions and mentor engineers on responsible AI use

Wereready tomeetyou! Come help us achieve our ambitious goals!

At Lulus we believe our people are our greatestassetand weseekto structure competitive compensation offers to ensure that we can attract andretainthe best talent. Our job postings include an annual base salary range for the role. The stated base salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on several factors including the selected candidates educational and professional experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the selection process. Base salary is a part of a total compensation package which depending on the position may also include an annual bonus and other benefit programs.