{"id":3948483,"url":"https://alion.io/job/quarter-hill-manager-software-development","title":"Manager, Software Development","company":{"id":1986947,"name":"Quarter Hill","domain":"quarterhill.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/quarterhill","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-08T22:30:16Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T22:30:16Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Overview\n\nThe Manager, Software Development is the head of engineering for our next-generation tolling and intelligent transportation platform, leading the team that designs, builds, and delivers it. This player-coach role combines people leadership with technical depth: the Manager owns the software development life cycle (SDLC) and engineering execution against the product roadmap, and partners closely with product leadership to deliver high-quality software on time and on budget. The ideal candidate has excellent communication skills and is able to work across multiple concurrent workstreams.\n\nResponsibilities\nThis position includes the following duties. Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs.\nManage and continuously improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process — planning, estimation, development, code review, testing, release, and maintenance.\nSet and measure quarterly goals for direct reports.\nProvide coaching and mentoring for direct reports' career development and advancement.\nConduct performance reviews.\nHire, develop, and retain engineers; foster an engineering culture of ownership, peer review, and continuous improvement.\nOwn engineering capacity planning and staffing against the product roadmap, in partnership with product leadership.\nProvide technical leadership on the product's core development initiatives — a cloud-native, event-driven microservices platform (services in a modern strongly typed language such as Rust or Go; TypeScript front ends; GraphQL APIs; Kubernetes-based deployment).\nParticipate in proposal development with specific focus on the technical response sections.\nCoordinate with application services and support teams on systems support transition.\nPartner with QA leadership on quality strategy and process improvement.\nCoordinate release management and maintenance activities with operations and maintenance leads.\nWill report to the Senior Director, ZentrikProduct.\nThis list of responsibilities might not cover everything you'll end up doing. \n\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree is required; Master’s degree desired.\n5+ years of engineering management experience leading software development teams.\n10+ years of software development experience, including SDLC management.\nStrong track record of delivering projects on-time and on-budget.\nStrong technical background in web application development and distributed/cloud systems; familiarity with modern stacks (e.g., Rust or Go services, TypeScript front ends, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures) strongly preferred.\nExcellent communication skills.\nProven problem solving skills.\nThrives in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment.\nDecisive.\nPositive, proven leadership attitude is a must.\nProject management skills are preferred.\nExperience in tolling, intelligent transportation systems, payments, or other mission-critical transaction systems is a plus.\n\nBenefits\n\nWe offera Total Rewards plan designed with you and your family’s health and wellness in mind that includes:\n\nPaid days off (i.e.vacation, sick days, bereavement leave)\n\nHealth and Dental plans\n\nRetirement plans\n\nEmployee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)\n\nEmployee referral program\n\nWe welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disabilityor any other protected characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state/provincial, and local laws. We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. \nWe appreciate all responses and will acknowledge only those being considered for an interview.\nWe respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.\nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":3757,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Automotive Software","Supply Chain & Logistics Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-08T23:28:30Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T00:24:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/quarter-hill-manager-software-development","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/quarter-hill-manager-software-development.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T00:24:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":857,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1986947},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1986947"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fquarter-hill-manager-software-development"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fquarter-hill-manager-software-development"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fquarter-hill-manager-software-development"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/quarter-hill-manager-software-development\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fquarter-hill-manager-software-development"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3948483}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"quarterhill.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3948483},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}