Position: Software Development Manager

Location: San Ramon, Ca

Company:

Our firm is a well established, private company that is well known for
our software products sold to government enterprises. We are growing
at a rapid pace and wish to add a high caliber software development
manager to our team. Take advantage of this outstanding opportunity
NOW!!!

Software Development Manager (based in San Ramon, Ca) (Fluency in
Madarin Chinese is a significant plus)

Prefer Local Candidates

Job Description:

The Development Manager is a key part of our development team who is
responsible for managing the design, development and quality assurance
one or more of our software products. The Development Manager is
focused on leading his/her development team to deliver timely, high
quality software within defined budgets and schedules.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage a geographically distributed development team for the design
and development of critical modules of our products.
- Manage the complete development cycle of the product for each
product release.
- Work with Marketing, Product Management and Development to identify
new development technologies, as they relate to business visions,
strategies and products.
- Working closely with product managers and business analysts to
design product functional specifications.
- Review designs of team members for efficiency and adherence to
coding, quality, functionality, performance, scalability and on-time
delivery standards.
- Lead, mentor and motivate team members to maximize their potential,
to deliver high quality software and to take pride in their work.
- Interact with customer service and professional service staffs and
customers to help resolve customer issues.
- Review designs of other programmers for efficiency and adherence to
coding, quality, functionality, performance, scalability and on-time
delivery standards.
- Coordinate cross-product development efforts, as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

- At least 4+ years of experience managing the development of
multi-tiered, web-based software application.
- Experience in managing geographically distributed development
environment and software outsourcing partners.
- Strong technical background: at least 5 years of hands on
development experience programming in multiple graphical and
web-based development environments using tools such as Java, J2EE, C#,
.Net, Java/J2EE, Enterprise Java Beans, Oracle and MS-SQL/Server and
programming in these environments.
- Strong project management skills
- Deep understanding of software development principles, processes and
methodologies.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Creative problem solving skills.
- Pay attention to details
- Methodically drive software quality
- Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or related field of
study or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master
of Science is preferred.

Desired Qualifications:

- Experience in developing software for the government market
specifically with a focus on asset management, land management,
licensing and permitting.
- Spoken Mandarin Chinese, a strong plus;

Contact:

Our firm is in the forefront of providing software to government to
enable them to realize the benefits of our industry leading products.
We offer a very competitive compensation package, Please send your
information to herbnj AT gmail DOT com