Development Manager

Software Directory; New Hampshire; Hybride; USD 140 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aquifer is looking for a Development Manager in New Hampshire to lead engineering capacity, delivery commitments, and technical execution quality across our development pods. You will directly manage engineers, pod tech leads, and a technical architect, with full people-management responsibility.

You will own release reliability and the delivery/quality dimensions of engineering performance, partnering with product and tech leadership to improve velocity and product sustainability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing engineering teams, engineering managers, or senior individual contributors.
• Track record of owning delivery commitments and release quality for a live SaaS product.
• Experience managing distributed or multi-site engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate the technical judgment and output of senior or staff-level engineers.
• Comfortable setting and enforcing guardrails for AI-assisted software development.
• Experience evaluating a technical architect against defined deliverables is a plus.
• Working familiarity with Jira/Confluence.

Responsabilités

• Own engineering capacity planning and translate roadmap commitments into delivery plans.
• Own release reliability and production quality across pods.
• Directly manage engineers, pod tech leads, and a technical architect.
• Manage hiring, performance, and career development for the team.
• Provide meaningful roles and assignments through capability mapping.
• Lead planning at every cadence and participate in engineering strategy discussions.
• Collaborate with product management to align roadmap with technical execution.
• Support Rails-based product growth with attention to sustainability and cost.
• Drive AI development best practices to increase velocity and quality.

Connaissances

Engineering leadership

Ruby on Rails

Delivery ownership

AI development

Distributed teams

Jira

Confluence

Outils

Jira

Confluence

Description du poste

Headquarters: New Hampshire

URL: https://aquifer.org/

Summary

The Development Manager reports into the Chief Technology Officer and owns the engineering capacity, delivery commitments, and technical execution quality across Aquifer's development pods. Directly manages all engineers, including the pod tech leads and a technical architect, with full people-management responsibility. The Development Manager owns release reliability and the delivery/quality dimensions of engineering performance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure engineering executes the cadence necessary to deliver on roadmap commitments set by the Lead Product Manager.
• Own engineering scorecard metrics for quality and delivery.
• Directly manage all engineers, including both pod tech leads: performance, career development, hiring, day-to-day support.
• Provide meaningful roles and assignments for engineers through talent and capability mapping.
• Own engineering capacity planning, translating roadmap commitments into realistic delivery plans.
• Own release reliability and production quality across both pods.
• Participate in engineering planning at every cadence.
• Lead the effort with the Technical Architect to adopt AI development best practices to increase velocity and quality.
• Support and grow the existing Rails-based product with attention to technical sustainability and delivery cost.
• Partner with the Lead Product Manager and both tech leads on cross-functional delivery planning.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing engineering teams, engineering managers, or senior individual contributors — ideally in a Ruby on Rails environment.
• Track record of owning delivery commitments and release quality for a live SaaS product.
• Experience managing distributed or multi-site engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate the technical judgment and output of senior or staff-level engineers.
• Comfortable setting and enforcing technical and process guardrails for AI-assisted software development.
• Experience running structured capability assessments (e.g., evaluating a technical architect against defined deliverables) is a plus.
• Working familiarity with Jira/Confluence.