Senior Development Manager (Remote)

Role Overview:  

We are seeking a driven and highly effective Senior Development Manager to lead and coordinate a dynamic team of multidisciplinary developers and support staff within one of our client accounts. This role requires strong leadership capabilities combined with client relationship management skills, and hands-on technical expertise in Python and modern full-stack development. The successful candidate will drive projects, mentor team members, set team culture and ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with our customers goals.

🚀 Responsibilities:  

• Lead and inspire a team of 30+ developers and support staff, ensuring project timelines and deliverables are met.  
• Collaborate with the product and QA teams to ensure that new features are both feasible and testable.  
• Provide technical oversight and guidance to team members, promoting clean, modular, and testable code.  
• Encourage ownership and accountability among team members, empowering them to make decisions and create value with minimal oversight.  
• Ensure consistent adherence to the design language and standards for all new feature implementations.  
• Drive the use of modern development practices, including testing from the user perspective to enhance UX.  
• Facilitate continuous improvement of team processes, including Agile methodologies.  
• Championing modern Python features such as async/await, type-hints, data classes, and pydantic.  
• Take ownership of the customer engagement, ensuring alignment with their objectives, maintaining strong communication, and proactively addressing their needs.

💼 Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack developer with modern Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.  
• Experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL.  
• Familiarity with frameworks like React, Next.js, and technologies such as GraphQL, Kafka, and Redis.  
• Familiar with modern cloud service providers like AWS or Azure, as well as Docker/Kubernetes environments.  
• Proven experience managing and mentoring a team of 10+ developers.  
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools such as JIRA or Scrum.  
• Excellent communication skills to liaise between technical and non-technical stakeholders.  
• Self-motivated and adaptable, with a startup mindset and a passion for taking ownership of challenges.