Software Development Manager
Huntsville, AL, US • Posted 8 hours ago • Updated 8 hours ago
SOS International LLC (SOSi)
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Skills
- Research and Development
- .NET
- Application Development
- Reporting
- Expect
- IT Management
- Systems Design
- IT Architecture
- Continuous Integration and Development
- Collaboration
- User Experience
- Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Security Clearance
- Software Development
- Staff Augmentation
- Leadership
- Accountability
- Python
- Java
- C#
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Cloud Computing
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Platform
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Delivery
- FedRAMP
- Pair Programming
- Test-driven Development
- Workflow
- Product Engineering
- Extreme Programming
- Value Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Apache Velocity
- Aerospace
Summary
Founded in 1989, SOSi is among the largest private, founder-owned technology and services integrators in the defense and government services industry. We deliver tailored solutions, tested leadership, and trusted results to enable national security missions worldwide.
Job Description
Overview
SOSi is seeking a highly skilled Software Development Manager to join our Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) team. SOSi's Office of the Chief Technology Officer is an internal R&D function building net-new technology products, not delivering against contracts. We're a small, senior team operating with a high degree of autonomy inside a structured guardrails framework. Decisions get made quickly with a model of act and inform over ask and wait.
The engineering organization runs three pods: Application Development, UX, and Infrastructure. You'd lead the largest.
WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS
This is a foundational hire for the engineering organization. The AppDev pod is the core of the product engine, and this role sets the technical standard for what we build and how we build it. You'll report to the Director of Engineering and operate with significant autonomy over architecture, delivery, and team culture within clearly defined guardrails.
The team is small and senior. You'll have access to SOSi's private AI infrastructure and compute resources. You'll be leading experienced engineers who expect strong technical leadership and clear direction.
WHAT YOU'LL BUILD
You own backend services, APIs, and application logic end to end across a suite of novel products with real-world impact. Your pod is where most of the product gets made.
Beyond core product delivery, you'll matrix into customer environments to lead next-generation system design and solve high-complexity technical problems that require senior judgment. These are targeted engagements, not long-term embeddings.
Essential Job Duties
- Own technical architecture and implementation decisions for backend services and APIs within OCTO standards.
- Drive XP engineering practices across the pod: pair programming, TDD, continuous integration, and collective code ownership.
- Maintain delivery health, code quality, and production readiness as non-negotiable standards.
- Collaborate as a peer with the UX and Infrastructure pod leads on cross-cutting architecture and integration.
- Contribute to the engineering reuse catalog, designing services and APIs for use across multiple products and programs.
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of senior engineers.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will write and review code regularly.
WHO YOU ARE
You've led senior engineers on product teams that shipped to real users. You've worked in or adjacent to regulated environments and you don't treat compliance as someone else's problem. You're familiar with what production-grade actually means and you hold that bar for your team.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- U.S. citizen, eligible for clearance.
- Eight (8)+ years of software development with meaningful time on product teams, not just delivery or staff augmentation.
- Demonstrated people leadership of senior engineers with accountability for team output and culture
- Strong backend depth in Python, Java, C#, Rust, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, or NestJS with full stack familiarity.
- Cloud-native experience: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, containerization, CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST, and secure development practices
- Experience with or strong belief in XP engineering practices: pair programming, TDD, collective ownership
- Strong experience with AI Code assist tooling as part of a mature engineering workflow
WHAT SETS YOU APART
- You've worked inside a product engineering function in a regulated or federal-adjacent environment.
- You've contributed to or led adoption of XP practices on a real team.
- You've designed APIs and services with reuse across programs or products as an explicit goal.
- You've been part of standing up an engineering culture, not just inheriting one.
- You've led adoption of AI that resulted in higher velocity without sacrificing SLAs.
WHY HUNTSVILLE, WHY NOW
Huntsville is a serious engineering market. The defense and aerospace ecosystem here is deep and the cost of living relative to DC or the coasts makes this compensation go significantly further. We're building something durable and we're doing it early. The team is small, the problems are real, and the autonomy is genuine.
Additional Information
Work Environment
- Working conditions are normal for an office environment, with possible remote work options.
Working at SOSi
All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.
- Dice Id: 10237746
- Position Id: 3743990011829227
- Posted 8 hours ago
Company Info
Since 1989, SOSi has provided specialized services supporting the national security interests of the United States and the security and stability needs of its allies.
We excel at providing logistics, construction, training, intelligence and information technology solutions to our clients in the defense, diplomatic, intelligence and law enforcement communities.
Decades of successful business have earned SOSi a well-deserved reputation for reliability and excellence in the government contracting industry. Originally founded to provide specialized language support to the law enforcement community, SOSi has grown into a diverse company with a broad portfolio of clients and service offerings. Our ability to enter new markets and deliver integrated solutions to complex challenges has been the hallmark of our growth into a large business with global reach.
Since 2002, SOSi s compounded annual growth rate has exceeded 30%, fueled by growth and diversification of SOSi s core businesses. In 2016, SOSi made its first acquisition, adding New World Solutions (NWS) to the portfolio of SOSi companies. NWS enhances SOSi s intelligence service offerings, adding highly sought after capabilities in data and imagery science, overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) and cyber solutions.
Whether the mission involves systems engineering and intelligence analysis supporting the U.S. military in Europe or operating bases that house thousands of clients in Iraq, we re ready to go where you need us.
At SOSi, it s always Challenge Accepted!
SOSi s unique approach to business features:
-An experienced team For over a quarter century, SOSi has delivered quality program management. We have proven business processes, corporate infrastructure and credentialed professionals that ensure project success.
-A client-centric approach As a family owned business, we bring a passion and commitment to our customers jobs that companies with institutional or public ownership simply do not offer. We are personally vested in our customers' success.
-Fully integrated solutions We do more than just staff a project. We develop holistic solutions that meet our customers needs. Innovation, efficiency and quality are the hallmarks of our work.
-An international perspective With experience in over 30 countries across Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, SOSi understands how to manage complex projects both at home and abroad.
-Willingness to take calculated risks SOSi is as comfortable working in the national capital region of the United States as it is supporting its clients in remote, austere and dangerous places. We go wherever you need us.
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