Lucas has a challenging career opportunity for a well-rounded, passionate engineering leader with an entrepreneurial drive and who is up-to-date with technology and industry best practices.

A strong business acumen is equally as important as technical capabilities. The ideal candidate will have created software in a commercial environment, led teams of software engineers, and worked in an environment with simultaneous projects with firm fixed price contracts / customer deadlines. A background in warehousing and distribution, while not essential, is helpful.

From a technical perspective, the Manager of Software Engineering will be well-versed in .NET (or Java), with exposure to modern web technologies like JavaScript and Angular as well as database technologies such as MS SQL.

Position Responsibilities:

• Mentor and grow a team within the Applications Engineering group, a mid-size high-performing, distributed software engineering team.
• Foster and support a culture of innovation and excellence within the engineering organization.
• Contribute to the support and staffing of multiple customer projects, balancing large- and small-scale projects.
• Champion and help to establish software discipline standards for the Applications group. Maximize quality, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Optimize engineer performance by driving efficient and effective software development process.
• Develop operational process design and workflows for customer projects and then drive the design decisions needed to achieve user-friendly, high-performance solutions.
• Continue to develop and share industry/domain expertise and business acumen.
• Attract, develop and retain high performing individuals. Set goals to measure and evaluate performance.
• Contribute to customer-facing engineering estimates.
• Provide input to project schedules and the assigning resources to projects.
• Work with cross-functional team (Sales, Tech Pre-Sale, Project Management, QA, etc.) throughout the customer engagement process.
• Interact directly with customers as needed to thoroughly understand customer needs and business drivers, and to manage customer support technical escalations and requests for modifications to their software solution.

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years developing commercial software
• 1+ years of relevant, hands-on technical leadership of software architects and engineers, delivering business-critical applications.
• S or M.S in Computer Science or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to grow and lead a team of engineers in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to build world class products using Agile/Scrum, or similar development best practices.
• Proven project management, relationship management and change management skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to be personable yet persistent, with a focus on getting things done.
• Works well under pressure, is self-motivated, and is driven by results. Places great emphasis on the customer experience and relationships.
• Up to date with technology and industry best practices.
• Well-versed in object-oriented and microservice design and development; adapts easily to multiple frameworks and technologies.
• Experience with Angular, Web API, Entity Framework, and RabbitMQ is a plus.
• Experience with Voice/Speech recognition technology is a plus.
• Exposure to Warehousing/Distribution Applications is a plus.
• Ability to travel 10-15%.

Location: Wexford, PA