Manager Development

Manager Development

Connecting Futures Now! DHI Group, Inc. is the parent company of career marketplaces, Dice and Clearance Jobs. We connect candidates with career advice, resources and ultimately a dream job. At DHI, we've built a workplace where great people do meaningful work. This is the place to be, and we want you here with us.

Join a mission-driven company that puts its people first. We're a collaborative, supportive team that lives by our "One Team" value – working together and winning together. Voted as a certified Great Place to Work®, our team members feel their opinions count and are cared for by DHI. 92% of employees say DHI is a Great Place to Work – 35% higher than the average U.S. company.

We've built a culture grounded in collaboration, growth, and giving back through volunteering and employee resource groups. Come be part of something worth showing up for!

In this role, you will lead and professionally develop a team of software engineers, cultivate the processes and standards they work by, and support the delivery of the features and platform work that power  for both candidates and employers. The product is built on Laravel and modern PHP with a Type Script and VueJS front end and MySQL, running on AWS with Linux, Docker, and automated CI/CD pipelines.

You will balance hands-on technical involvement—code review, architecture and design decisions, release quality—with the people work of coaching, growing, and setting direction for your team.

Your career at DHI will be filled with exciting challenges and opportunities for growth. From onboarding and familiarizing yourself with our development environment to contributing to ongoing projects and building strong relationships with your team, every day will bring new learning experiences and chances to make a difference.

The Clearance Jobs Engineering team builds and maintains the platform that connects security-cleared professionals with the employers who need them. As the product roadmap grows, we need a manager who can keep the team focused, healthy, and delivering—raising the quality bar on releases while developing engineers in their careers.

In the first 90 days in the role, you will accomplish several key milestones:

• Onboarding and Familiarization:
  Understand the company's development environment, tools, processes, and coding standards. Get to know your team members and their roles.
• Understanding the Product:
  Familiarize yourself with the product or projects you'll be working on. Understand the user base, key features, and the overall goal of the application.
• Codebase Familiarization:
  Dive into the existing codebase. Understand the architecture, design patterns, and coding conventions used in the project.
• Contribution to Ongoing Projects:
  Pick up smaller tasks or bug fixes to get acquainted with the codebase and workflow, and start participating in code review and sprint planning with the team.
• Team and Process Assessment:
  Hold one-on-ones with each engineer to understand their goals, strengths, and blockers. Assess the team's current delivery process and identify early opportunities to improve it.

In the long term you will:

• Learning and Skill Development:
  Identify areas for improvement in your development and leadership skills and start learning. This could involve learning new skills, frameworks, or tools that are relevant to your teams and projects.
• Setting Goals:
  Set short-term and long-term goals for your role and the team. Discuss these goals with your leadership to ensure alignment with the team's objectives.
• Building Relationships:
  Build relationships with your team members, stakeholders, and other departments you'll be collaborating with. Communication is key to a successful team dynamic.
• Feedback and Improvement:
  Seek feedback from your peers and manager regularly. Use this feedback to improve your skills and performance.
• Contribution to Process and Product Improvement:
  As you become more familiar with the projects and processes, look for opportunities to suggest improvements in development processes or tools that could benefit the team and raise the bar for the product.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
  Document your work…