We are looking for a talented Director of Software Development to join Songtradr’s global development team in Santa Monica, CA. Songtradr’s mission is to create access to music for everyone, everywhere, around the world — to make music, share music, license music, and listen to music. Our agnostic philosophy and technology invites the entire music industry to participate and collaborate — from artists to music platforms, to licensees and listeners — there are no competitors, only participants. We are the global ecosystem for music.
Job Overview
The Director of Software Development will build multiple software engineering teams and provide technical leadership, direction and mentoring for the team leaders and engineers. This individual will manage the process of building those teams which design, develop and support the existing Songtradr applications to meet current and future business requirements. Additionally, they will provide resource planning and project scheduling using Agile/Scrum software development methodologies.
In this role you will:
- Develop project plans, lead resource planning, scheduling and managing development timelines.
- Devise strategies to gather regular feedback and information from numerous sources to effectively validate and manage the performance of any product on an ongoing basis.
- Actively drive the development life-cycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, documentation, testing, implementation, and support.
- Build, manage and mentor multidisciplinary software teams and oversee the development processes.
- Closely monitor the progress of each project, tracking deliverables and milestones.
- Maintain oversight and management of department expenses and budget planning.
Qualifications
- Ability to drive a culture of quality and personal accountability through development and delivery teams.
- A commitment to quality through the ability to translate complex application requirements into functional software and UI using best practices.
- Solid expertise in Agile methods including SCRUM.
- Deep technical knowledge of web applications using C#, Docker and AWS technologies.
- Ability to cut through complexity and remain focused on defining a product that is usable, feasible and valuable.
- Aptitude for communicating technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders.
- Must be organized, with a sound ability to exercise good judgement while balancing other people’s input with clear decision making.
- Ability to take the lead in a fast-scaling environment.
- Experience working with offshore teams preferred.
- 10+ years experience working with business and technology stakeholders.
- 5+ years experience in Web Development, C#, MVC, MongoDB, ElasticSearch.
- 5+ years experience in managing projects and leading software development teams.
- Experience managing the delivery of projects from the first wireframe up to deployment
- Clear communicator who can write detailed reports and present succinctly to an audience.
About Songtradr:
We are a passionate group of musicians, thinkers, builders, coders, business professionals and artist advocates with a simple mission; to create access to music for everyone, everywhere, around the world. Our world class content management system arms music makers with a comprehensive set of tools and services to professionally manage their careers, while our automated marketplace and talented music supervisors streamline the music discovery and licensing process.
For more information, visit songtradr.com. Songtradr is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, disability, veterans’ status, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.
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