Role Description :
Scitara is seeking a highly experienced and skilled Software Development Manager to lead and manage our software development team. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in frontend/full-stack software development, excellent leadership skills, and a track record of delivering high-quality software products on time and within budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and lead the software development team of highly skilled front-end/ full stack developers.
- Design and develop solutions, evaluate architecture options, set technical direction and quality standards, guide implementation.
- Closely work with the team contributing to with active development as required by the team or project deliveries.
- Responsible for code reviews, code and product quality for the deliverables in Agile environment
- Collaborate with product management, quality assurance, and other cross-functional teams to ensure seamless product delivery.
- Complete ownership of time delivery of high-quality releases.
- Regularly communicate with the management about risk analysis and possible deviations.
- Drive the group to work efficiently and consistently following an Agile methodology.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement of process, quality metrics, communication, and tooling.
Experience
- 13 – 16 years of experience in software product development out of which 8-10 years hands-on experience.
- 3 – 5 years of experience in leading and mentoring software development team of 8-15 engineers.
- Experience developing and supporting multi-tenant cloud-native software delivered as-a-Service (SaaS).
Desired Skills
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality software products on time and within budget.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Solid hands-on experience in front-end / full stack product development
- Excellent technical leadership to ensure high quality design and development of the product features.
- Deep understanding of MEAN (Mongo-Express -Angular Js-Node Js) or MERN (Mongo-Express-React-Node Js) stack.
- Working knowledge of RESTful APIs and Web Sockets
- Knowledge of cloud frameworks (AWS/ Azure/ GCP), container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Travis)
- Experience with informatics applications or GxP compliant applications
- Experience in secure coding and building applications for regulated industries
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of Messaging/queuing protocols (socket.io, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Excellent people leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to hire, train and mentor the right talent.
- Attitude and aptitude to lead the team technically from front.
Good to Have:
- Working knowledge of laboratory informatics systems (i.e. LIMS, ELN, SDMS)
- Knowledge of unit test tools/strategies (Mocha, Chai, Cucumber)
- Experience with scientific instrumentation and/or data.
- Experience with informatics applications or GxP compliant applications Knowledge of IOT and Instrumentation interfacing techniques (i.e. RS232, GPIB, Bluetooth, TCP/IP, USB
Location : Mumbai / Pune