Onit - Product Development Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :

The development manager is responsible for product development and management of product releases through completion; analyzes, designs and develops software enhancements and new modules. Manages development project from initial design through testing while providing strategic management direction. Responsible for managing the developers and quality assurance engineers.

Responsibilities :

- Develop, manage and prepare best software development team.

- Guide, coach and mentor software development and QA engineers.

- Provide project management and technical leadership for every aspect of software.

- Prepare lifecycle for different projects inclusive of research, development, design, evaluation, testing along with delivery to product management.

- Supervise architecture plus lead efforts to develop technical roadmap of all projects.

- Establish and stimulate software development standards and processes along with best practices for delivery of scalable and high-quality software.

- Work closely with developers, QA engineers and product management throughout organization to influence product development and improving product quality.

- Manage and execute software development projects from beginning to finish.

- Evaluate projects, develop and update schedules plus supervise project status.

- Collaborate effectively with all team members as well as hold regular team meetings.

Mandatory Skills and Experience :

- Bachelor of engineering in computer science/software engineering or other similar equivalent disciplines is preferred

- 15+ years of experience in software development field

- Should have 5+ years of managing software development teams

- Experience with full cycle development leveraging Agile methodologies

- Ability to work and develop in Mac/Linux environment

- Excellent communication skills

- Must be a team player and should be able to work with diverse teams locally and globally

- Experience in managing software development teams

- Good project management experience

- Experience in product development using web technologies (web application development)

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Proficiency in the any/few of the languages listed is preferred:

a. Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, Java, Python

- Experienced with PostgreSQL or Mongodb is HIGHLY preferred

- Experience in resolving customer issues

- Experience in managing software quality assurance teams

- Experience in working with US based software product development companies

- Few years of working onsite for managing or developing software

Education :

- Bachelor of Engineering in computer science/Software engineering or other similar equivalent disciplines in management or equivalent