Description Robert Half is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a team responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing critical internal business systems. This role combines people leadership with hands-on technical involvement and collaboration across multiple departments. The team supports a highly customized enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment that plays a central role in operational processes and decision-making.
The ideal candidate brings a balance of leadership experience, technical depth, and the ability to work closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable and reliable software solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of software engineers responsible for internal business applications and systems
- Participate in recruiting activities including candidate evaluation, interviews, and hiring decisions
- Conduct performance reviews, provide coaching, and support the professional growth of team members
- Take long-term ownership of team performance, delivery quality, and technical direction
- Develop deep knowledge of the systems and business processes supported by the team
- Serve as the primary point of coordination between the development team and internal stakeholders across multiple departments
- Maintain a hands-on role by contributing to software development (approximately 20-30% of time)
- Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and architecture planning to ensure maintainable and scalable solutions
- Facilitate agile development practices such as sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives
- Provide technical guidance and analysis for large cross-functional initiatives involving enterprise business systems
Requirements Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- At least 7 years of professional software development experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience managing or leading software engineers
- Professional experience developing applications using Python
- Demonstrated success as a senior or lead individual contributor on development teams
- Familiarity with agile development frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban
- Experience with modern development practices and tools, including Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work onsite in a collaborative office environment
- Experience supporting enterprise business applications (ERP or similar) preferred
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