Software Development Manager - Modernization

Software Development Manager
- Modernization

Job Category: IT

Requisition Number: SOFTW
004516

• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Camden, NJ 08103, USA

• Pay or shift range: $160,000 USD to $190,000 USD The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.

JAVA MODERNIZATION & APPLICATION TRANSFORMATION

Lead the teams to build the next-generation warehouse management platform.

Who We Are:

United States Cold Storage owns and operates one of the most complex temperature-controlled logistics networks in North America. Every day, our systems coordinate the storage and movement of food on a national scale across a network of state-of-the-art distribution centers, including multiple highly automated warehouse facilities.

We continue to advance our core warehouse and logistics platforms. Our current focus is on modular, event-driven, API-first, and cloud architecture. We are also strengthening site reliability engineering and responsible AI practices to improve system reliability and engineering productivity. This investment supports continued innovation and operational excellence across our facilities.

If you want to build durable systems that operate in the physical world at scale, this is the opportunity.

The Role:

The Software Development Manager
- Modernization will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for modernizing US Cold's warehouse management platform. This role requires a highly technical software leader with deep experience in Java application development, enterprise architecture, and large-scale application modernization.

Your teams will incrementally transform a large, production Java monolith built with Spring and Hibernate into an API-first, event-driven microservices architecture on Microsoft Azure. You will remain actively involved in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering decisions. You will help teams make sound tradeoffs that balance delivery speed, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.

You will partner closely with Architecture, Platform, Site Reliability Engineering, Quality Assurance, Product, and business stakeholders. You will also own team performance, execution, hiring, vendor accountability, and delivery outcomes while serving as a credible technical voice with senior leadership.

This role blends technical architecture with traditional people management. The successful candidate must be able to challenge designs, guide implementation, assess code quality, and lead engineers through complex modernization work.

What You Will Own:

• Manage two engineering teams of approximately 3–6 engineers each, including a new internal team and an established European-based consulting team.
• Build and staff for the new internal team, define the technical hiring bar, and own the full hiring process.
• Lead and own delivery performance for both teams.
• Provide coaching, performance feedback, and career development for the internal team.
• Establish measurable objectives and key results at the team and individual level.
• Own roadmap execution, delivery outcomes, technical quality, and production readiness.
• Champion standards for architecture, observability, reliability, and operability.
• Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and resource needs clearly to leadership.
• Drive alignment across Architecture, Platform, Quality Assurance, and Product.
• Create an environment of accountability, clarity, and continuous improvement.

Technical Environment:

• Legacy enterprise Java monolith using Spring and Hibernate, backed by Oracle, actively being decomposed into microservices.
• Java and Spring Boot…