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Manager Roles & Responsibilities
1. Provide technical leadership and managerial guidance to team of software developers.
2. Recruit and mentor staff to grow the team’s capability and their individual talent.
3. Review product requirements and feature requests, providing development effort estimates and risk assessments to senior management.
4. Influence architectural decisions, design/code reviews, test plans and technology strategy.
5. Manage multiple concurrent projects to deliver committed features on time.
6. Foster an environment of continuous improvement in software engineering practices and product quality in terms of performance, scalability, availability and flexibility.
7. Work closely with other software development teams as well as product line management, quality assurance (QA), and technical support.
Key Competencies & Skills
8. Bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications engineering, computer engineering or computer science and 10 years of experience in a software development role, in the networking domain. Five years of experience in a technical leadership role and/or people management role. Ideal candidate will also have the following skills:
9. Familiar with Linux development environment
10. Knowledge of network routers/switches or routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, etc.)
11. Experience in open-source software development
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