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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Manager - **Company:** Crane NXT, Co. - **Location:** Malvern, PA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Computing Platforms, Systems Engineering, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Firmware, Commercial Software, Software Architecture, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Software Quality Management (Software Quality), Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Information Technology, Integration Frameworks - **Published:** October 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=842862ba65a1dd30 ## About the Role You will bring significant experience leading commercial software engineering organizations, with well-demonstrated success managing multiple distributed teams and delivering complex software products through the full development lifecycle., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. * Typically 10 or more years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial leadership responsibility. * Demonstrated success leading multiple software teams and developing engineering managers, technical leaders, and individual contributors. * Experience managing geographically distributed teams and collaborating across cultures, functions, and time zones. * Proven delivery experience across commercial software products, platforms, or services throughout the product lifecycle. * Strong understanding of modern software architecture, development methodologies, secure engineering practices, DevOps, CI/CD, and software quality management. * Ability to balance strategic goals, customer needs, technical risk, delivery commitments, and long-term organizational capability. * Experience managing external development partners, contract resources, budgets, and workforce plans. * Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders at all levels. Preferred Experience * Leadership experience with enterprise applications, cloud-based or SaaS offerings, connected products, integration platforms, or distributed systems. * Experience supporting both cloud-based and customer-hosted software solutions. * Experience leading technology modernization, organizational transformation, or engineering process improvement. * Experience in industrial technology, payments, retail systems, gaming technology, financial services technology, or another regulated or mission-critical environment. * Master's degree in a relevant technical or business discipline. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES * Strategic Thinker: You connect business objectives to technology direction, organizational capability, and practical execution plans. * People Developer: You coach with clarity, build leadership depth, and create opportunities for individuals and teams to grow. * Action Oriented: You establish priorities, make timely decisions, and maintain momentum while managing risk responsibly. * Collaborative Leader: You build trust across geographic and functional boundaries and create alignment around shared outcomes. * Customer Focused: You keep customer value, quality, reliability, and long-term product success central to engineering decisions. ## Description As Manager, Software Development, you will lead a globally distributed software development organization responsible for customer-facing applications, software platforms, cloud services, integration capabilities, and the infrastructure that enables effective software engineering. You will combine people leadership, technology direction, and delivery accountability. You will build organizational capability, establish clear priorities, and create an environment in which teams deliver secure, reliable, maintainable, and commercially valuable software. The Manager, Software Development will have a direct impact on the Engineering organization, responsible for: * Leading multiple software engineering teams across the United States and Germany, including employees and external development resources. * Translating business and product priorities into executable engineering plans, resource strategies, and predictable delivery commitments. * Balancing new product development, platform modernization, customer commitments, and sustaining engineering needs. * Setting clear software engineering direction, standards, governance, and expectations for quality, security, reliability, scalability, and lifecycle support. * Building leadership depth through recruiting, coaching, performance management, career development, and succession planning. * Driving continuous improvement in development practices, tools, automation, engineering metrics, and team effectiveness. * Partnering with Product Management, Firmware Engineering, Systems Engineering, Test and Validation, Customer Support, Operations, and other stakeholders. * Managing workforce plans, external partners, engineering budgets, delivery risks, dependencies, and resource constraints. * Representing Software Development in leadership reviews, strategic planning, customer discussions, and cross-functional decision-making forums. * Serving as the senior technical point of contact for major external customers on software integrations, guiding adoption of CPI APIs, SDKs, and integration tools, resolving complex integration issues, and making sure customer commitments are delivered.