Assistant Manager, Software Development

Who Are We?

M3 is a Top 150 Workplaces winner named by the Atlanta Journal Constitution! Employee-owned, family-oriented, and a great place to grow your career, our company-wide personal commitment to both clients and employees is simple: do the right thing and invest in long-term relationships. Together, we work to provide the highest standard of financial services and technology to deliver on our mission to drive hospitality company success. M3 helps make hospitality companies successful through technology that drives financial performance.

Our hotel accounting software is used and trusted by the biggest names in the hospitality industry. We are looking for talented professionals to join our team!

We're located in a beautiful and modern new building with the Headquarters in Gwinnett County, GA just off I-85. Our office is complete with an employee gym, bright, open work spaces, and games in the break room (pool, shuffle board, video games).

Compensation and Benefits: 

M3 offers a strong benefits package including 100% employer paid medical as well as dental, and vision for the employee and family; life, long and term disability, and Long Term Care insurance that the company provides free of charge; 401k with a 6% match; three weeks paid time off; discretionary profit sharing; a great culture, and competitive salary.  We are a certified Drug Free Workplace and Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Description Summary:        

The Assistant Software Development Manager is responsible for managing the development process of dynamic enterprise class software applications. This position will require knowledge of both legacy and emerging technologies and involvement in the full software development life cycle in an agile environment. The ASDM will supervise multiple development teams’ productivity, career development, adherence to departmental policies, technical standards and company initiatives under guidance of the director of software development.

 Essential Duties:

The duties listed below are the essential functions of this position, and they may change as the needs of the company demand. All associates are expected to do what is necessary to get the work done and to cooperate fully with their supervisor’s requests for additional or altered duties. 

• This position supervises all other roles assigned to this department personally or through subordinate supervisors, including recruiting, training and development, performance management, motivation, corrective action or termination in conjunction with HR if necessary.
• Oversee the development and maintenance efforts of the applications delivered by the development team, in an agile SDLC environment.
• Foster a collaborative, productive environment while establishing clear expectations and ownership, making sure the development team stays on track and timelines are met.
• Coach and mentor development team members including team leads, oversee training, manage performance, motivate, and take corrective action in concert with the director of software development and HR.
• Maximize work output by ensuring compliance with existing departmental best practices - code and design reviews, coding, security, and quality standards.
• Periodically assist the team on technical development tasks, including code reviews.
• Collaborate with other teams such as DevOps, Operations, QA and Product to ensure SDLC processes are aligned to achieve optimal product development.
• Set team goals that align with the overall departmental, company goals, and help the team achieve them.
• Strong leadership abilities and initiative, excellent delegator and mediator, ability to listen and take direction, ability to motivate.
• Strong sense of personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high-quality work, both personally and at a team level
• The ideal candidate has a technical background with administrative experience.
• Able to communicate effectively with both technical and business resources.
• Accounting knowledge is a plus.
• Identify opportunities for improvements in processes and tools.
• This position reports to the Director of Software Development.
• Other duties as assigned. 

Education/Training/Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a directly related position required.
• Completion of a Bachelors Degree is required. Strong preference for the completion of a major in IT, MIS or Computer Science ; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must have strong written and verbal skills in English and ability to communicate effectively.
• Must be able to build and maintain positive business relationships with co-workers and other business contacts.
• At least 5 plus years’ experience in designing and developing n-tier applications.
• Technical competence in blend of technologies from current (.Net/Web) to legacy (VB6/Com). If lacking knowledge on a particular technology set, then have an ability to quickly learn and influence design decisions - is a must have skill.
• Experience with SQL Server databases and database layering tools such as Microsoft Entity Framework.
• Experience with Microsoft toolset such as Visual Studio and TFS/ADS.
• Understand Agile and have worked with scrum teams.
• Leadership competencies include the ability to troubleshoot, prioritize, and drive to successful completion of projects while developing, motivating, and leading a team of developers.
• Scrum Master background can be considered partially for supervisory experience.
• Accounting knowledge is a plus.
• Additionally, this position requires specialized skills using: Office suite of products.
• Prior experience supervising others in a leadership capacity preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods.
• Ability to perform work on a computer for extended periods.
• Ability to work in the office regularly, or pivot to working at home should emergency situations arise.
• Ability to attend work per assigned schedule and attend meetings with excellent attendance and punctuality.
• Ability to bend and lift up to 25 lbs.