Lead, Application Development & AI-Driven Delivery

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc.; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company

Paid Time Off

401(k) – 100% Match up to 5%

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance the 1

Competitive Pay

Career Development

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores in the United States is seeking a Manager of Application Development to lead software development, engineering practices, and quality for new and existing products. The Manager guides teams to deliver maintainable solutions, resolves issues through collaboration, and partners with business and product stakeholders to deliver best-in-class customer experiences.

You will drive adoption of modern engineering approaches, including AI-assisted tools, to boost

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience of application development.
• 2+ years experience leading development teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the development and deployment of new applications, systems software, and enhancements to existing applications and supporting services and data
• Cultivate, disseminate, and enforce development, administrative, and operational best practices
• Lead strategy and implementation for best practices in delivery of application development products
• Ensure solutions are maintainable, sustainable, and aligned to business outcomes
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues and defects through collaboration and monitoring application performance
• Research and make recommendations on software products in support of procurement and development efforts
• Coordinate feasibility studies for software and system products under consideration for purchase and provide recommendations based on findings
• Partner with business, product, and design teams to translate needs into actionable delivery plans and to deliver best-in-class customer experience
• Review and analyze existing applications’ effectiveness and efficiency, and develop strategies for improving or leveraging these systems
• Where necessary, prepare, establish, and monitor budgets
• Continuously learn and adopt new technologies as required to meet business needs
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Tabnine, or similar) to improve development efficiency and code quality
• Define team standards and guardrails for responsible AI usage (e.g., code review expectations, security considerations, and testing requirements)
• Embed AI-enabled practices into SDLC and DevOps workflows, including automated testing, CI/CD, and observability/monitoring

Skills

Application development

Git

Agile

Customer focus

Team leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Git

Job description

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores in the United States is seeking a Manager of Application Development to lead software development, engineering practices, and quality for new and existing products. The Manager guides teams to deliver maintainable solutions, resolves issues through collaboration, and partners with business and product stakeholders to deliver best-in-class customer experiences.

You will drive adoption of modern engineering approaches, including AI-assisted tools, to boost