Software Development Manager (C# / React)

Archon Systems; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Toronto is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a dynamic team. This role involves hands-on development and team management, fostering a strong technical culture. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in C# or React and a passion for coaching and team growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software application development experience.
• 3+ years of managing software developers.

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of software developers, including coaching and performance reviews.
• Hands-on development work about 50% of the time.

Skills

Leadership

Empathy

Humour

Tools

.NET 6

C#

ASP.NET Core

Entity Framework Core

React

Typescript

NextJS

Cypress

Mocha

xUnit.net

Job description

Software Development Manager (C# / React)

We’re looking for a people-centric developer to lead our development team. We expect you’d spend 50% of your time doing hands-on development (letting you keep your skills sharp) and the other 50% on helping to manage, coach, and grow the team.

Your responsibilities would include :

• Managing a team of software developers (currently 7), including 1-on-1s, coaching, assigning work, performance reviews, and hiring
• Managing team processes, education, and culture
• Hands-on development work about 50% of the time

We have a strong technical culture that you would be responsible for evolving and improving, including :

• High-trust : we’ve worked remotely 3+ days a week for 15 years, and we discuss problems and flaws candidly without focusing on blame
• Collaborative and transparent : everybody has access to key company-level financial information and credit cards
• Minimal bureaucracy : you’ll spend very little time fudging estimates and fighting about timelines and scope. Both of our founders have programming backgrounds (they wrote version 1 together) and have the utmost respect for what it takes to build great software and great software teams.
• Fun, learning, and low turnover
• Continuous improvement : we understand technical debt and refactoring, having evolved our codebase from a Windows-only on-premises client-database architecture in 2006 all the way to a modern cloud-based multi-tenant multi-platform system in 2023

Key pieces of our technology stack include :

• NET 6, C# 10, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, and Orleans
• React 17, React Native 0.64, Typescript 4.6.2, NextJS 12
• Automated testing including Cypress, Percy, Mocha, xUnit.net and some novel tools

What we need from you :

• 7+ years of software application development experience
• Significant development experience with either C# or React
• 3+ years of managing software developers
• Oodles of energy, empathy, and humour

Other stuff we’d be happy to hear about :

• Blogging, talks, leading open-source work, or other technical leadership
• Experience with business systems (inventory, accounting, CRM, etc.)
• Close experience with small businesses that hold inventory

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Software Development Manager • Toronto, CA