Application Development Manager

Job Overview

We’re hiring an Application Development Manager to lead cross-functional engineering teams delivering cloud-native, API-first applications. You’ll convert business outcomes into executable roadmaps, uphold engineering standards (architecture, security, CI/CD, observability), and drive predictable, high-quality releases. The ideal candidate blends hands-on technical depth with people leadership, agile delivery, and strong stakeholder communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery & Roadmapping: Translate objectives into backlogs, sprint plans, and release calendars; manage scope, risks, and dependencies across services.
• Engineering Excellence: Enforce coding standards, architectural patterns (microservices/event-driven), API contracts, and documentation; lead design/PR reviews.
• Team Leadership: Mentor engineers (career growth, goals, feedback); coordinate onshore/offshore squads; ensure coverage, succession, and onboarding quality.
• CI/CD & Environments: Own pipelines, environment promotion (Dev/Test/Pre-Prod/Prod), feature flags, and change control; champion trunk-based or Git-flow practices.
• Quality & Testing: Establish test strategies (unit/integration/e2e/contract), test data management, non-functional testing (perf/resilience/security).
• Observability & SRE Practices: Set SLOs/error budgets; implement tracing/metrics/logging; run incident management, post-mortems, and reliability improvements.
• Security & Compliance: Embed SSO/OIDC, OAuth2, secrets management, RBAC/ABAC; ensure auditability and policy adherence in code and infrastructure.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate status/RAID, align priorities, manage expectations; coordinate with product, security, data, and platform teams.
• Cost & Performance Governance: Track run-time spend, capacity, and latency; drive optimizations (caching, routing, autoscaling).
• Vendor & Tooling Oversight: Evaluate platforms/tools; manage licenses and vendor engagements; standardize developer experience (DX) toolchains.

Required Skills

• Experience: 3-5+ years in software engineering with 3-5+ years leading teams as an EM/ADM/Tech Lead.
• Cloud-Native Engineering: Microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, event streams; containers & orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes); service discovery and config management.
• Programming: Proficiency in one or more: Python, TypeScript/Node.js; capable of guiding code quality and reviewing complex PRs.
• Data & Integration: SQL/NoSQL fundamentals; API gateways; caching (Redis), queues/streams (Kafka/SQS/Pub/Sub); contract testing.
• CI/CD & IaC: GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins; Terraform/CloudFormation; artifact/versioning and environment promotion gates.
• Observability & Reliability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch; resiliency patterns (retries/backoff, circuit breakers, bulkheads).
• Security by Design: OIDC/OAuth2, secrets vaults, least-privilege access, dependency scanning/SBOM, secure SDLC practices.
• Agile Delivery: Backlog management, sprint rituals, estimation, and metrics (throughput, lead time, change fail rate).

Good To Have Skills

• AI/Knowledge Systems: Familiarity with LLM-powered services, retrieval (RAG), vector/graph stores, and evaluation harnesses.
• Architecture Practices: Domain-driven design, hexagonal/clean architecture, event sourcing, saga/orchestration patterns.
• Platform & Networking: Service mesh, API gateways, zero-trust networking, feature flags, blue/green & canary releases.
• Quality Engineering: Contract testing (Pact), performance testing (k6/JMeter), chaos testing; TDD/BDD practices.
• Governance & Compliance: Exposure to SOC 2/ISO 27001 change control, audit readiness, and regulated-industry SDLC.
• People & Vendor Leadership: Coaching senior ICs, hiring/interviewing, matrixed collaboration; managing vendor SOWs/SLAs and FinOps discipline.

This role suits a hands-on leader who can orchestrate teams, raise the engineering bar, and deliver secure, reliable releases on a predictable cadence.