Manager, Software Development - US

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Manager, Software Development - US - 20291

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Job TitleManager, Software Development - US
Category Software Development

Requisition Code

20291
Location US-TX-Austin Austin, TX 78753, US
Education Bachelor's Degree
Job Type Full-time
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Travel Required 0
Job Description

You must have superior leadership ability and know how to build a world-class engineering team. Due to the scope of technology and degree of integration with other products and systems this role requires a leader with excellent communication skills and ability to understand broad technical issues. The ideal candidate for this position is someone who has been a Manager.

At Rackspace, we pride ourselves in providing a great work environment with flexible hours, talented team members, and cutting edge technology. For this role, you will be managing a team of talented Software Developers in San Antonio. A passion for quality and a fanatical support attitude is a must. This position is located in San Antonio, TX.

In this role you will be responsible for:

- Development of the MyRackspace Customer Portal for Enterprise Customers
- Build and nurture a cohesive and powerful team of top notch software and DevOps Engineers
- Lead the integration of Quality Engineering directly into the product development process
- Collaborate with Product Management to ensure clearly define user stories, product definition and acceptance criteria
- Implement appropriate development methodologies (ie, SCRUM/Agile/Kanban), best practices, documentation, and tools
- Drive an improvement in velocity to speed time to market for our new products
- Assess and communicate risks based on complexity, resource and timeline constraints
- Reporting regular status to Engineering and Product Management
- Champion and improve our continuous integration and deployment within and across teams

Required Experience/Skills:

- 5+ years management experience overall, 2+ years experience managing development when critical product features were being delivered by other teams or companies, requiring significant communication and coordination
- 7+ years total software experience, comprising:
- 3+ years experience in a manager role (people management) - must have shipped or deployed more than one v1.0 product releases and more than one point release for each as a Manager or above
- 3+ years as a software developer with significant technical contributions to shipping products
- Proven ability to build relationships, collaborate with and influence cross-functional teams across product line boundaries
- Proven track record in implementing agile methodologies and delivering shipping product
- Calm, steady demeanor during stressful and complex situations
- Excellent written and verbal communication, problem solving, interpersonal, and time management skills, proven ability to delegate tasks to smaller teams to get results
- Proven ability to mentor team leads and team leads/junior managers to be effective, the ability to accomplish results through managing junior managers is essential
- Working experience utilizing Continuous Integration/Deployment concepts and streamlined delivery of code

Highly Desired Experience/Skills:

- Familiarity with advanced software/testing methodologies such as TDD
- Familiarity with designing systems to intrinsically support Quality and Performance Testing
- Experience working in cloud computing
- Experience with monitoring systems and approaches

Rackspace, a world leader in hosting delivers enterprise-level managed hosting, cloud hosting, and e-mail hosting services to businesses of all types and sizes globally. Today we serve thousands of customers from data centers around the world. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies and practices for each customer's specific needs delivering it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support®. We serve as an extension of our customers' IT departments enabling them to focus on their core business. Rackspace was founded in 1998 and since then has had significant growth year after year. There are now over 4,000 Rackers employed worldwide dedicated to providing customers our premier hosting services.

Rackspace Hosting is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.

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