Application Development Manager

Job Overview We re hiring an Application Development Manager to lead cross-functional engineering teams delivering cloud-native API-first applications You ll convert business outcomes into executable roadmaps uphold engineering standards architecture security CI CD observability and drive predictable high-quality releases The ideal candidate blends hands-on technical depth with people leadership agile delivery and strong stakeholder communication Key Responsibilities Delivery Roadmapping Translate objectives into backlogs sprint plans and release calendars manage scope risks and dependencies across services Engineering Excellence Enforce coding standards architectural patterns microservices event-driven API contracts and documentation lead design PR reviews Team Leadership Mentor engineers career growth goals feedback coordinate onshore offshore squads ensure coverage succession and onboarding quality CI CD Environments Own pipelines environment promotion Dev Test Pre-Prod Prod feature flags and change control champion trunk-based or Git-flow practices Quality Testing Establish test strategies unit integration e2e contract test data management non-functional testing perf resilience security Observability SRE Practices Set SLOs error budgets implement tracing metrics logging run incident management post-mortems and reliability improvements Security Compliance Embed SSO OIDC OAuth2 secrets management RBAC ABAC ensure auditability and policy adherence in code and infrastructure Stakeholder Management Communicate status RAID align priorities manage expectations coordinate with product security data and platform teams Cost Performance Governance Track run-time spend capacity and latency drive optimizations caching routing autoscaling Vendor Tooling Oversight Evaluate platforms tools manage licenses and vendor engagements standardize developer experience DX toolchains Required Skills Experience 3-5 years in software engineering with 3-5 years leading teams as an EM ADM Tech Lead Cloud-Native Engineering Microservices REST gRPC APIs event streams containers orchestration Docker Kubernetes service discovery and config management Programming Proficiency in one or more Python TypeScript Node js capable of guiding code quality and reviewing complex PRs Data Integration SQL NoSQL fundamentals API gateways caching Redis queues streams Kafka SQS Pub Sub contract testing CI CD IaC GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins Terraform CloudFormation artifact versioning and environment promotion gates Observability Reliability OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenSearch resiliency patterns retries backoff circuit breakers bulkheads Security by Design OIDC OAuth2 secrets vaults least-privilege access dependency scanning SBOM secure SDLC practices Agile Delivery Backlog management sprint rituals estimation and metrics throughput lead time change fail rate Good to Have Skills AI Knowledge Systems Familiarity with LLM-powered services retrieval RAG vector graph stores and evaluation harnesses Architecture Practices Domain-driven design hexagonal clean architecture event sourcing saga orchestration patterns Platform Networking Service mesh API gateways zero-trust networking feature flags blue green canary releases Quality Engineering Contract testing Pact performance testing k6 JMeter chaos testing TDD BDD practices Governance Compliance Exposure to SOC 2 ISO 27001 change control audit readiness and regulated-industry SDLC People Vendor Leadership Coaching senior ICs hiring interviewing matrixed collaboration managing vendor SOWs SLAs and FinOps discipline This role suits a hands-on leader who can orchestrate teams raise the engineering bar and deliver secure reliable releases on a predictable cadence