Development Manager 

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Development Manager to guide a team of software engineers in the design, development, and delivery of our cloud-hosted legal technology platform. You will bridge technical execution and team leadership — ensuring engineering quality, mentoring developers, and collaborating with product stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. 

Responsibilities & Duties

Day-to-Day Operations

• Own the daily rhythm of the development department — standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and release coordination

• Own the technical delivery and execution of the development team, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and maintainable software.

• Monitor and communicate sprint progress, flag risks early, and remove blockers before they impact delivery

• Architect and guide development of back-end services using .NET (C#), ensuring performance, security, scalability, and maintainability

• Conduct code reviews and enforce engineering standards across the team

• Assist and coordinate in remediation of escalated client support issues, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes

Team Management

• Directly manage a team of software engineers working across .NET back-end, SQL data, Angular front-end, and Azure infrastructure

• Run sprint ceremonies, facilitate backlog grooming, and remove blockers

• Enable and ensure team achieves commitments as scoped, scheduled, and estimated. Set clear expectations for technical quality, ownership and accountability. 

• Coach and mentor development team through design reviews, code reviews, pairing and technical guidance to ensure the delivery of secure, efficient, and timely releases.

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices (including the use of AI development tools), team productivity, and system design.

• Willing to assist in any development efforts for projects that are behind schedule

• Actively contribute to the codebase (design, coding, debugging) as needed to support delivery and unblock the team

• Work with the Vice President of Information Technology to refine the technical architecture and evolution of the platform, aligning with scalability, multi-tenancy, and long-term maintainability goals.

• Define and guide service boundaries, integration patterns, and data architecture.

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies (including AI capabilities) where they provide clear value.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Management to translate business requirements into scalable, well architected technical solutions.

• Provide level of effort estimates and tradeoff analysis to the Vice President of Information Technology

• Collaborate with QA to define testing strategies and quality gates

• Partner with DevOps and Security teams on CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices, and compliance requirements

• Communicate technical tradeoffs and timelines clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

• Provide regular status updates to leadership on team capacity, delivery progress, and upcoming risks 

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Curiosity about, and strong interest in, leveraging and promoting AI tools to accelerate and improve development projects.  Hands-on experience with such tooling a plus.

• Strong expertise in .NET / C# back-end development, service-oriented architecture and microservices experience a plus.

• Experience in design and architecting cloud native solutions on platforms such as Azure or AWS, using cloud services.

• Solid experience with SQL Server — data modeling, schema design, stored procedures, query optimization and performance tuning.

• Hands-on experience with Angular (v15+) or equivalent modern front-end framework

• Demonstrated experience deploying and operating applications on Microsoft Azure

• Experience leading Agile/Scrum development teams

• Strong communication skills — able to translate technical concepts for business audiences 

Job Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or management role