Software Engineering Manager - Heavy Equipment Division

Have you ever wanted the opportunity to chat with the R&D VP or senior leadership of your company about your ideas for improving business, without feeling out of place or risking your job? Have you ever desired a work environment that empowers and encourages you to think outside of the box? What about career growth, opportunity, and responsibility? Would you like to improve your skills as a leader and make a direct positive impact on multi-million-dollar products? Or mentor and influence over 100 engineers? Instead of being stuck on one tech stack, how would you like to build world class solutions using the right technologies and toolset? If you are a leader who is passionate about people, technology, want to work with the best business/technology leaders in the industry, and are looking for an exciting career, you may have found your new home.

Who We Are

VitalEdge Technologies Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software for the heavy equipment and industrial machinery industry. We help dealerships and rental companies across agriculture, construction, forestry, heavy trucking, materials handling, mining and sanitation optimize their business operations. Our software solutions focus on meeting the needs of these specific clients, so they can increase efficiency, customer satisfaction and profitability. As a leader in our space, we’re committed to delivering continuous innovation and value to our clients.

Why work for VitalEdge?

We don’t just sell technology, we enable transformation that results in broader societal benefits like building homes and critical infrastructure, growing food and delivering all sorts of products we all rely on for daily life. We exist to ultimately equip the world to keep running.

It’s an exciting time to work for VitalEdge. We have recently merged with CDK Global Heavy Equipment. With this, we now have more than 60 years of combined experience and two industry-leading software suites and associated apps, with which we will drive the market forward.

We are currently hiring for a Software Engineering Manager to oversee a team of 8-12 software engineers & QA Engineers in our Heavy Equipment division. The role is hybrid remote.

Responsibilities:

• Research and guide decisions on architecture and technology choices for solving the problems on hand
• Collaborate with a team full of fun, pragmatic, full stack software developers who share your passion & zeal for building awesome technology solutions to interesting real-world problems, all the while having fun doing it
• Develop highly scalable, dynamic, and incredibly fast technology solutions that meet the needs of the business
• Ensure that software development processes are followed and best practices are applied throughout the software development lifecycle
• Offer the right balance of autonomy and support
• Partake in and foster a culture of continuous learning using opportunities like Link, hackathons, conferences and Lunch N' Learns
• Build, mentor and grow your team

Required Skills:

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience
• At least 2 years experience in engineering leadership and management
• Experience with web services, SaaS, Linux, PHP and modern data management technologies
• Experience with distributed source control (Git, GitHub Flow), CI/CD, Confluence and Jira
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, computer science, or related field is preferred. Plus a minimum of 2 years of directly related work experience in one of these fields
• Ability to employ test driven and behavior development and continuous deployment
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• An ongoing thirst for new knowledge, ideas, and a passion for software engineering and developing people

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Dealership retail experience
• Strong business acumen
• SQL Experience
• Cloud Experience
• API Experience