Software Development Director

Location: Office - New York, United States of America

Company

hirify.global develops software used by technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street.

What you will do

• Lead a development team delivering quality software, feature enhancements, and business goals.
• Develop and evaluate personnel, provide training and mentorship, and support team growth and engagement.
• Participate in Agile meetings to shape development strategies and product roadmaps.
• Guide architecture, technical practices, collaboration, creativity, and responses to emerging technologies.
• Develop organizational policies, authorize implementation, and provide direction to senior managers across functional areas.
• Set strategy for major functional areas, influence policymaking, and manage critical matters with executive-level stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years leading a development team.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices across the full software development life cycle.
• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, estimate work, and meet production deadlines.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback, resolve conflicts, drive consensus, and mentor team members.
• Ability to provide technical guidance on architecture, code review, best practices, software design documentation, presentations, and sequence diagrams.
• Ability to present complex technical designs concisely.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases and building highly scalable distributed software systems.
• Professional experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience taking projects from requirements scoping through launch.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Proficiency with modern web development technologies and techniques, including HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with full system design and architecture, public-facing API development and design, and database scaling and design.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time office-based position in New York.
• Emphasis on collaboration, creativity, constructive feedback, employee growth, and positive engagement.
• Regular interaction with executive-level management and senior managers across the organization.