Software Engineering Manager - Delivery & Leadership

Vidoori Inc.; Hyattsville (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vidoori Inc. is seeking a Software Manager to lead software development teams and oversee the delivery of reliable, scalable, and maintainable software solutions in a fast-paced environment.

The role combines hands-on software engineering expertise with strong people leadership to drive technical direction, delivery planning, and collaboration with product, project, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software development, software engineering, or a related technical discipline, including experience managing or leading software teams.
• Proven experience delivering software products or platforms across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, application development, testing, deployment, and technical operations.
• Experience managing engineers through recruitment, performance reviews, coaching, professional development, and team planning.
• Practical experience with agile methodologies, software delivery planning, backlog management, and project risk management.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, organisational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with source control, continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, and software development tooling.
• High attention to detail balanced with the ability to take a strategic, organisation-wide view of software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop software engineering teams, promoting a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
• Manage software development activities across the full delivery lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Partner with Product Management, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Operations, and other stakeholders to define priorities, scope, dependencies, and delivery plans.
• Provide technical leadership and support engineering teams in making effective architecture, design, and implementation decisions.
• Establish and maintain software engineering standards, development practices, code quality expectations, and documentation requirements.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify risks and dependencies, and take corrective action to ensure projects are delivered on time and to the required standard.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance management, career development, and succession planning for software engineering team members.
• Promote agile delivery practices, including effective sprint planning, backlog management, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure software solutions meet requirements for security, scalability, availability, performance, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.
• Identify opportunities to improve development processes, tooling, automation, technical capability, and engineering productivity.
• Manage relationships with software suppliers, consultants, and technology partners where required.
• Provide regular reporting to senior leadership on delivery status, team capacity, technical risks, resource requirements, and key performance indicators

Skills

Software leadership

Full lifecycle delivery

Architecture & design

Team mentoring

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

DevOps & CI/CD tooling

Software quality & testing

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Automated testing

Job description

Vidoori Inc. is seeking a Software Manager to lead software development teams and oversee the delivery of reliable, scalable, and maintainable software solutions in a fast-paced environment.

The role combines hands-on software engineering expertise with strong people leadership to drive technical direction, delivery planning, and collaboration with product, project, and business stakeholders.