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The Development Manager is responsible for supporting delivery excellence, resource and capacity planning, quality assurance, and effective execution across development teams.\nThe ideal candidate brings a strong combination of technical knowledge, people leadership, and operational discipline, with the ability to balance day-to-day execution with broader business and product priorities.\nSPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:\nLead one or more product development teams through all phases of the software development lifecycle, including technical design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing delivery.\nManage development work and priorities in Jira and coordinate requirements, timelines, and dependencies with Product Management.\nDrive resource and schedule alignment across development teams to identify capacity needs, address gaps or conflicts, and optimize the use of available talent and resources.\nPartner closely with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Quality Assurance, Cloud Operations, and other cross-functional partners to ensure coordinated execution across dependencies.\nContribute to development roadmaps, milestones, delivery plans, and tracking mechanisms to monitor progress, issues, dependencies, and risks.\nChampion AI adoption and AI-driven development practices that improve engineering productivity, quality, and effectiveness.\nEstablish and maintain consistency in development practices, timelines, documentation, and stakeholder engagement across assigned teams.\nProvide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to developers and support the continued growth and development of team members.\nManage competing priorities and help ensure development initiatives are delivered effectively and in alignment with product and organizational objectives.\n REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nMinimum of 3 years of experience managing a software development team, preferably within a SaaS, enterprise technology, or cloud-based environment.\nExperience working with Java and/or .NET platforms and modern CI/CD development practices.\nStrong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, resource planning, capacity management, and delivery execution.\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, and timelines and drive initiatives through completion.\nExperience working cross-functionally with Product Management, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and other technical teams.\nProficiency with development and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.\nStrong communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and problem-solving skills.\nDESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nExperience with Angular, JavaScript, JQuery, or related technologies.\nExperience supporting SaaS platforms and cloud infrastructure or cloud transformation initiatives.\nExperience with AI-enabled development tools or AI-driven engineering practices.\nExperience working with the Accela Civic Platform.\nABOUT ACCELA\nFor nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in designing and delivering government software to improve efficiency, increase citizen engagement and enable the development of thriving communities. Today, citizens are savvy to how services should be delivered, and expect a consistently convenient, openly transparent view into their local government. While government agencies struggle to do more with less, our mission has never been more critical. Accela provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. From planning, to building, to service request management and more, Accela’s SaaS offerings level the playing field for small and medium governments and enable smaller agencies to leverage larger city technologies. Our open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are well prepared for the emerging challenges of the future.\nOUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION\nAccela believes in developing and nurturing a workplace community where our differences are celebrated, and everyone feels a sense of psychological safety and belonging. Accela is committed to putting resources and attention towards evolving our practices, policies, and philosophies to enable diversity to thrive and to support equity in opportunity for everyone.\nCOMPENSATION AND WELL-BEING\nThe annual base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000-$185,000 (less applicable taxes). The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience. In addition to an annual base salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus target. This is a discretionary bonus awarded based on company and individual goal achievement.\nAccela’s U.S. team members will receive a generous benefits package consisting of options including flexible time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, family planning benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, health savings account with company contributions, flexible spending account, life, accident, and disability coverage, business travel insurance, employee assistance programs, and other well-being benefits.\nAccela is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employerand will respond to requests for job accommodations.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation","description_format":"text","description_chars":5971,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible time off","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Digital Government"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-30T21:25:03Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 3","filings_12m":3,"filings_prev_12m":4,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":167500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":185000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/accela-manager-software-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/accela-manager-software-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T02:58:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4064,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":936,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}