Software Engineering Manager

at  American Innovations LTD

Description:
Are you looking for a challenging leadership role working on a powerful and configurable platform? Are you experienced in full-stack development and mobile data collection applications anchored in GIS technology? Do you have the skills and creativity to develop the strategy and execute the modernization of applications to cross-platform technologies? Are you also looking to build and mentor a team to take our platform to the next level?
This role is a full-time permanent position, and the ideal candidate would be located within commuting distance of our Fort Collins, CO location. Consideration will be given to those within commuting distance to our Austin, TX headquarters location.
American Innovations is technology leader providing critical software and services that supports our nation’s most important infrastructure in the utility & energy space. We do this by providing a wide range of technology solutions spanning across our Mobile edge computing, IoT and SaaS platforms.
This role is a highly influential software engineering manager role that can truly help drive the business forward from a technical perspective and will focus on the CartoPac high-accuracy mobile data collection platform.

SOFT SKILLS

• Excellent verbal and written communication/documentation skills.
• Proficient in client / server development environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Self-motived and ability to work independently and in a team to solve problems.
• Create reliable estimates and thrive in a culture that promotes personal commitment.
• Ability to mentor colleagues in best practices, software design, and troubleshooting.
• Commitment to team vision and goals in virtual, flexible hybrid-workplace environment.
• Personal drive to evolve legacy systems into new architectures that lower engineering overhead, reduce technical debt, add new features, and scale to meet customer demand.
• Demonstrate a passion for lifelong learning and continuous improvement.

This is a hands-on management position. Up to 70% of your time may be spent making technical contributions such as designing, developing, DevOps, etc. You will ensure the craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams and third-party providers.
You will engage in mentoring and guiding the professional development of American Innovations technical staff, as well as identify and recommend opportunities for developing product functional and technical strategies for your domain. This will include the development of actionable short and long-term product roadmaps, by partnering with business leaders, product managers, systems architects, security operations, support, and experienced engineers.
You will also make decisions and in resolving design challenges, create and oversee strategic product design from the engineering perspective, write code on our application stack in addition to overseeing an engineering team ensuring the delivery of commitments aligned to our engineering roadmaps.