Development Manager

volarisgroup; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Volaris Group is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive the day-to-day development of a cloud-based commodity trading and risk platform. You will lead delivery decisions, stay close to code, and improve reliability in a customer-facing environment where service continuity matters.

The role emphasizes modernizing development practices, expanding automated testing, and introducing AI-assisted development with strong engineering standards and human oversight.

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery teams and coordinating across departments.
• Strong proficiency in C#, .NET, SQL Server, and SaaS/containerized delivery.
• Proven Agile/Scrum delivery, CI/CD integration, and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate development, QA, and DevOps across onshore and offshore contributors; shape sprint plans, allocate work, and provide performance feedback.
• Work with product and business leads to turn priorities into practical delivery plans and sound technical choices.
• Review code, troubleshoot defects, and contribute directly when that will unblock delivery or improve quality.
• Increase automated test coverage, reduce manual regression work, and apply AI-assisted test creation and maintenance where useful.
• Introduce coding assistants and AI-supported review, documentation, and legacy migration, establishing team practices and guardrails.
• Improve CI/CD, release quality, uptime, performance, and operational resilience; raise material product, staffing, platform, or investment decisions to leadership.

Skills

Technical leadership

C# / .NET

SQL Server

Azure

CI/CD

Tools

Entity Framework

ASP.NET MVC

React/Blazor

Job description

Role overview

Lead the day-to-day development of a cloud-based commodity trading and risk platform used for trading, logistics, billing, financial integrations, and compliance. This is a hands‑on team leadership role: you’ll guide delivery and technical decisions, stay close to code and production issues, and help improve reliability in a customer-facing environment where service continuity matters.

A central part of the role is modernizing how the team builds and tests software. You’ll expand automated testing and introduce AI-assisted development practices with sound engineering standards and human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate development, QA, and DevOps work across onshore and offshore contributors; shape sprint plans, allocate work, and provide performance feedback.


• Work with product and business leads to turn priorities into practical delivery plans and sound technical choices.


• Review code, troubleshoot defects, and contribute directly when that will unblock delivery or improve quality.


• Increase automated test coverage, reduce manual regression work, and apply AI-assisted test creation and maintenance where useful.


• Introduce coding assistants and AI-supported review, documentation, and legacy migration, establishing team practices and guardrails.


• Improve CI/CD, release quality, uptime, performance, and operational resilience; raise material product, staffing, platform, or investment decisions to leadership.

Requirements

• Experience as a technical lead, senior developer coordinating delivery, or development manager; this may be a first formal people-management role.


• Strong working knowledge of C# and .NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework, and SaaS or containerized software delivery.


• Production experience with a modern UI framework such as React, Blazor, or ASP.NET MVC, plus external-system integrations.


• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, microservices, layered application design, relational and document databases, and containerized cloud deployment.


• Practical Agile or Scrum delivery, CI/CD, and automated testing integrated into a development pipeline.


• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development in a working team, with good judgment about its benefits and limitations.


• Clear communication, ownership of shipped outcomes, and the ability to stay organized during competing priorities and customer escalations.

Nice to have

• Experience improving throughput, availability, and resilience in cloud applications or supporting a high-touch customer product.


• Knowledge of commodity trading and risk, or related agriculture, energy, or metals domains.


• Experience rolling out AI tools across an engineering team, including agentic coding or AI-supported testing in a compliance-sensitive setting.