Senior Software Development Manager

Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. We succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced a workplace accident or injury. The combination of software, consulting, and training helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important – their core business.  Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work for four years in a row, KPA is made up of talented individuals working together for the greater good. We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for people with a common goal to help us do it. 
Position Description: The Senior Software Development Manager is a key position tasked with directing day-to-day activities within the KPA’s software development function. This teamis responsible for research, development, testing, and deployment of the KPA EHS Software platform – a highly configurable Environmental, Health, and Safety Software. This is a fantastic opportunity to guide a talented teamand contribute to significant growth of KPA. 

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the work of a team responsible for designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining KPA’s Software as a Service platforms (both web and mobile applications).  
• Works to establish functional requirements and reviews solutions to ensure organizational needs are met.  
• Works in conjunction with the Product Management team to develop short- and long-term product roadmaps to ensure continuous improvement of the software. 
• Manage team members’ growth, deliver feedback and direction, and provide opportunities that fit their career path and professional interests. 
• Be the liaison between the development team and leadership, understanding how to distill organizational goals into tactical execution. 
• Work across departments such as Client Success and Product and ensure strong collaboration. 
• Manage tasks and projects by planning, prioritizing, tracking, and communicating with key stakeholders. 

Knowledge, Experience, Requirements:

• Expert-level knowledge of software development principles and best-practices. Ideal experience includes working in a B2B SaaS environment.   
• Prior Management experience within a professional software development team. 
• Experience administering established policies and procedures but may have some impact on departmental budgeting, strategic planning, and procedural change.  
• Ability to identifyinefficiencies in processes and implement solutions. 
• Previous senior level software development and architectural responsibilities for a SaaS platform. 
• Knowledge of technical environment which includes technologies similar to Vue, .Net, SQLServer, and Mongo. 
• 6-10+ years of progressive software development experience
• 5+ years of progressive technical organizational leadership, preferably in high growth business environments. 

Success Criteria:

• Ability to effectively manage team dynamics and build a culture encompassing KPA’s Core Values – Integrity, Helpfulness, Excellence, Agile, Respect, and Teamwork. 
• Maintains and applies standards for software development that leads to a high-quality software product.  
• Ability to mentor others, providing leadership and guidance that provides growth opportunities to the team. 
• Ability to make decisions in the best-interest of the product and KPA. 
• Executes strategic plans set at functional level to deliver tactical results.  
• Ability to drive an “on time, every time” engineering organization which is focused on KPA’s client’s success. 

Physical Requirements:

• Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 
- ​​Visual Recognition​  - ​Constantly​ - ​​Stationary sitting or standing position​ - ​Constantly​ ​​- Working at a computer typing and view a screen​ - ​Constantly​ ​​- Hearing/Listening​ - ​Seldom​ 

Compensation:

• Annual base salary range starting at 140k+
• Bonus potential of 15% annually

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