Software Development Manager, Android

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We are hiring an experienced Software Development Manager. A Software Development Manager is primarily responsible for coordinating and managing the entire software development process. An SDM oversees a team/team’s performance, schedule, capacity, and projects to ensure business goals are met. A Software Development Manager plays a crucial role in the day-to-day operations of the department and functional team/teams, providing clear direction, mentorship, ownership, and prioritization during the application’s development process, ensuring constant stability and improvement of delegated ecosystem Feature(s).

• Delivering projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently;
• Taking full ownership over a delegated Feature(s), as well as teams and resources, assigned to the Functional unit;
• Identifying key business objectives and providing solution recommendations while performing business proofs;
• Working with the Product Manager to define the roadmap for any given Feature and evaluating user stories from a technical perspective;
• Ensuring all delegated Features are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (alpha/beta/production);
• Setting up procedural guidelines to establish a successful delivery process;
• Ensuring that operations are cost-effective and stay within budget;
• Handling all challenges in support of company-wide projects/programs delivery in a form of efficient scoping, prioritization, and requested functionality delivery expedition;
• Mediating and resolving cross-team negotiation issues, acting as a point of escalation for stakeholders and team members;
• Orchestrating team/teams backlog and scope adjusting to strict deadlines and business goals;
• Implementing and maintaining Feature and team/teams KPIs, metrics, and operational excellence according to industry best practices;
• Acting as liaison officer between different teams to build partnerships and develop solutions.

• BA’s degree in science, engineering, technology architecture, database design, or software engineering;
• 8–10 years of experience in technology development, with at least five years spent on using software delivery management tools;
• Proven experience delivering software projects effectively;
• Strong ability to develop code using modern languages and frameworks, be familiar with newest updates and solutions
• Established experience with project management programs, SCRUM, and different variants of AGILE techniques are also expected, along with familiarity with code management and Continuous Integration/Delivery Implementation (CI/DI);
• Experience working with Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architecture, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and relational databases;
• Strong analytical skills and data-oriented mindset;
• Excellent people management and communication skills.
• Experience with building custom UI and complex animations
• Experience in application performance and data usage optimization
• Commercial experience using:
  1. Kotlin
  2. Live Data
  3. Room
  4. Kotlin or others DI frameworks
  5. MVVM architecture
  6. View Models
  7. Kotlin-Coroutines
  8. Retrofit2
  9. Navigation Component
  10. Nice to have experience using Libgdx game engineer

• Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category
• Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company
• Competitive salaries
• Option of equity
• Close collaboration between UA and US team members
• Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver)
• Flexible working hours
• Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!)
• English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office)
• Ability to travel to the US
• Corporate activities and parties
• Dedicated wellness area in the office
• 20 working days of paid vacation
• 15 days of paid sick leave
• And, of course, we use Surprise internally!