What You'll Do
As a Software Development Manager at Curve, you'll lead one or more software development teams, working alongside Product Managers, Architects, and other Development Managers to deliver high-quality software that advances Curve's platform.
People Management:
- Continuously monitor and support the performance and growth of your direct reports
- Own performance management, mentoring, feedback, and career planning for individual developers
- Provide input into the performance process for non-development team members (e.g. QA, Product Owners, UX)
- Lead recruitment and onboarding for software developers on your teams
- Handle disciplinary actions in coordination with senior management as needed
- Manage team schedules, availability, and general administration
Technical:
- Participate in and coordinate the research, prototyping, and selection of new tools and technologies; assist in their implementation and rollout across the organization
- Recognized within the development organization as technically skilled in one or more key technologies or practices, and able to contribute meaningfully beyond your core area of expertise
- Perform code reviews to ensure adherence to design and coding standards, and champion the value of code review culture across teams
- Participate in architectural design alongside software architects, infrastructure architects, and development leads
- Coordinate with other engineering managers and architects to identify improvement opportunities across the product suite and prioritize technical debt
- Evangelize software testing and quality assurance, making appropriate use of both automated and manual testing - and help set realistic coverage targets that lean toward quality wherever practical.
- Contribute to setting realistic code coverage targets that balance quality and delivery speed - with a lean toward quality wherever practical
- Balance technical debt reduction against the business need to deliver new functionality
- Stay current with industry developments, emerging AI technologies, and modern software development practices
- When needed, pair-program with a developer or take on development work to keep a project moving
Management
- Coordinate day-to-day development activities
- Manage dependencies within and between project teams
- Serve as the primary point of contact for removing blocking issues
- Work alongside Product Manager on technical backlog definition, estimation, and maintenance
- Define and coordinate the work necessary to deliver on a project for all relevant stakeholders
- Ensure requirements are well understood and sufficient to maintain team velocity
- Lead estimation and forecasting, helping teams plan realistic delivery timelines
- Assist with deployment, validation, release, and rollback activities
- Work closely with the infrastructure and operations team to coordinate product rollouts, provide input on monitoring, and support production issues
- Be accountable for the transparency, execution, and successful delivery of your team's projects
- Drive continuous improvement across your team's processes, tools, and communication
- Engage with customers and vendors on new software features or products when needed
- Some off-hours work is required for production releases; Curve practices continuous delivery, so off-hours deployment work is infrequent
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience leading or managing software developers building large-scale web applications
- 8+ years of professional software development experience building enterprise or SaaS software
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality software in an agile SaaS environment
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture best practices
- Proficiency in relational databases and data storage technologies
- Strong experience with object-oriented development in one or more languages (C#, Java, PHP, or similar);
- Experience with REST APIs and JavaScript frameworks in rich web applications
- Proven ability in system design and architecture, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
- Experience writing user stories and breaking down high-level requirements into smaller, well-defined development tasks
- Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, and lead multiple teams focused on different objectives
- Ability to manage dependencies, remove obstacles, and keep teams productive
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience collaborating across product management, architecture, UX, QA, and customer support teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting and onboarding software developers
- Experience in healthcare or other highly regulated SaaS environments
- Experience using and encouraging modern AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar)
- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and experience working alongside AI-focused development teams
What Success Looks Like
During your first year, you will:
- Become the leader your teams and partners trust and rely on.
- Consistently deliver high-quality software that advances Curve's AI-enabled platform
- Build strong working relationships across product management, architecture, customer success, and peer engineering teams
- Establish a high-performance team culture grounded in accountability, quality, and continuous improvement
- Identify and drive initiatives that reduce technical debt and improve development velocity
- Lead your teams through the adoption of modern AI-assisted development tools and practices
