Remote Software Development Manager — Agile Leader

Geomatik; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle, emphasizing performance, safety, and reliability. This Software Development Manager role leads multiple teams, guiding delivery, architecture discussions, and QA collaboration in a remote, globally distributed context.

You will sponsor QoS, oversee CI/CD, and mentor engineers to improve productivity and delivery reliability, while partnering with Product,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience managing software development teams, including direct people management and delivery ownership.
• Strong understanding of Agile software delivery, Scrum practices, release planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.
• Experience coordinating with Product Managers and Product Owners to plan releases, manage priorities, and enable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead developers, technical leads, and other engineering team members.
• Act as the project and delivery manager for assigned software projects and product initiatives.
• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and control of work assigned to the software development teams.
• Ensure teams are enabled, unblocked, and supported to deliver software effectively and predictably.
• Drive Agile evolution and continuous improvement across teams, including Scrum practices, delivery cadence, backlog readiness, sprint execution, retrospectives, and cross-team coordination.
• Work closely with Product on release planning, backlog prioritization, delivery sequencing, scope alignment, and dependency management.

Skills

Leadership of multiple teams

Agile delivery leadership

Software engineering management

Release planning

Stakeholder management

Cloud-native architecture

AI enablement experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java Enterprise

Spring Boot

Angular

React

MySQL

CI/CD

Microservices

Job description

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle, emphasizing performance, safety, and reliability. This Software Development Manager role leads multiple teams, guiding delivery, architecture discussions, and QA collaboration in a remote, globally distributed context.

You will sponsor QoS, oversee CI/CD, and mentor engineers to improve productivity and delivery reliability, while partnering with Product,