Software Engineering Manager

Description

The Software Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a team of 8-9 engineers who are building the tools that power the freight platform. The ideal candidate should have a passion for tackling hard problems. Be a veteran who knows how to get things done, and how-to future-proof our architecture and implementations to scale for years to come. This position will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of all of the systems. AWS Cloud environment. The customer needs someone onsite 3 days/week and will pay for relocation.

Top skills necessary for this position:

Strong distributed systems experience, microservices design, maintenance windows, API design, event driven, real-time data across multiple servers handling thousands of transactions, and streaming.

- Partner with leadership, engineers, program managers and stakeholders to understand system needs.

- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.

- Own the development lifecycle with a focus on developing new features and functionalities for assigned software applications

- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all the team deliverables.

- Know how to write high quality distributed system software.

- Work in an agile development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff.

- Mentor, teach, and coach other engineers to improve their engineering skills and responsibilities.

Large Initiative: AS400 Migration. Currently around 85% on-prem, 15% cloud. This person will be re-engineering and looking to make plans and start this next year. Anticipate it will take 3 years to migrate off.

If you have the top skills necessary for this position and are interested in living in beautiful Chattanooga, TN, please apply immediately.