Senior Software Developer
SIL International
Skill Required
Role overview
This role is a Product Manager position focused on championing team alignment, discovering user needs through research, and creating long-term product vision and strategy for software applications. The position involves significant leadership responsibilities including aligning teams around product roadmaps, designing and developing software applications, and leading a development team. The role requires a combination of software engineering skills, user research capabilities, and strategic leadership, with an emphasis on partnership development, promotion leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a language technology organization. The position reports to a Director and works closely with Language Technology Leadership on budget, funding proposals, and organizational growth.
Responsibilities
- Champion the team, partners, and user community to ensure alignment around overall strategy and direction of the product
- Discover what users need by conducting user research and unveiling critical insights
- Create the product's long-term vision and strategy
- Align the team around a cohesive product roadmap
- Design, develop, and deploy software applications, new features, and defect fixes.
- Design and develop unit tests and perform code reviews
- Lead creation of targeted promotions: white papers, conference presentations, user videos
- Work with Director on yearly roadmap, budget, and funding proposals
- Work with Director and Language Technology Leadership to develop and grow partnerships
- Provide quarterly reports and requested metrics to Language Technology Leadership
- Lead performance reviews and goal discussions for your team
- Implement and Manage Agile software development methodology
- Analyze software requirements by consulting with the user community
- Support user community with developer-level support
- Write technical reference documentation for the new software
- Participate in regular project status, planning, partnership, and strategic meetings
- Report any hardware and software needs to Director
- Be available to travel to meet with the larger development team at least once per year
- Be available to travel biannually to the Language Technology Conference
- Participate in professional conferences and meetings
Requirements
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Demonstrated skills in software development and algorithms
- Demonstrated passion for understanding and resolving complex user-needs into product priorities
- Demonstrated user interface design skills
- Demonstrated appreciation for quality user interface design
- Good interpersonal skills of communication
- Good organizational skills
- The ability to quickly analyze and learn a large existing codebase
- The ability to make decisions in a timely manner
- The ability to generate/analyze multiple solutions to a problem
- The ability to quickly pick up technical concepts
- The ability to work both with a team and independently, and to multitask effectively
- 3 to 5 years' experience leading teams is preferred
Nice to have
- A servant heart attitude
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience is preferred, but we care more for a heart and mind that are always learning
Additional details
- Position Type: Not specified
- Education and Experience: Product Managers should have experience in software engineering, a good understanding of the software development lifecycle, and experience leading development teams
- Training and Orientation: Will complete the initial IT Software Department training program and relevant portions of IT Orientation
- Weekly Hours: Not specified
- Originally posted on Himalayas