Development Manager (Surfers Paradise)

**Dev Manager**

**Responsibilities**:

- Own the growth, quality and output of the engineering team in our Gold Coast office
- Play a key role in recruiting and hiring the best engineering talent to support our continued growth in the market
- Manage the goals and career paths of your people, conducting regular 1-on-1s and giving feedback and guidance
- Own and continuously refine the processes and communication strategies your team uses to build and support products
- Work with a product manager, architects and development managers to ensure that the roadmap is realistic and understood
- Work with your manager to turn the roadmap into staffing needs and a recruiting/hiring funnel
- Be an ongoing contributor to one or more of our software platforms (e.g. Java, iOS, Android), though it is not expected that you will be coding full time
- Collaborate with the engineering managers in our other labs to ensure consistency and constant improvement across the organization

**Must-haves**:

- B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 3+ years of experience managing and growing software engineering teams as a people manager
- experience as a hiring manager a big plus
- Excellence in communicating complex concepts (written and oral)

**Bonus points**:

- Experience scaling native iOS / Android apps and/or Java backend
- Experience in privacy, security, messaging, telephony, etc.
- Experience in the design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of SaaS systems
- Working knowledge of API design and distributed backend systems Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rhreh