Software Development Manager

Software Development Manager About Company:

Software Development Manager

VARGO® is the pioneer of waveless and continuous order fulfillment, empowering retailers, distributors, and manufacturers to achieve record-breaking operational performance through software, automation, and innovation. Through COFE® (Continuous Order Fulfillment Engine), advanced fulfillment technologies, AI-enabled solutions, and deep operational expertise, VARGO helps customers transform their supply chain operations.

The Software Development Manageris responsible for leading VARGO's software engineering organization in the design, development, enhancement, and delivery of mission-critical software solutions, including COFE®, customer-specific applications, integrations, APIs, web applications, and emerging technology initiatives.

This role combines technical leadership, people management, Agile execution, delivery governance, resource planning, AI-assisted development practices, and software engineering excellence. The Software Development Manager ensures engineering teams consistently deliver secure, scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions while supporting customer commitments, product roadmaps, operational excellence, and long-term technology strategy.

The position serves as a key leader within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), partnering closely with Product Management, Architects, Agile Delivery, Business Analysts, Quality Engineering, Deployment, Support, Infrastructure, and Executive Leadership.

POAs a member of VARGO's Cabinet, the Software Development Manager brings a customer-centric mindset to every engagement, prioritizing work across the portfolio, coordinating across teams and functions, and driving continuous improvement in how VARGO delivers and scales its solutions.

Department:
Technology
Classification:
Full-Time, Exempt
Travel:
Up to 15%
Direct Reports:
Software Engineers, Technical Leads, Development Team Leads, and assigned development personnel.

• Lead and develop software engineering teams responsible for:
• Customer-specific development
• CVW and web applications
• APIs and integrations
• AI-enabled solutions
• Internal software platforms
• Establish development priorities aligned with:
• Customer commitments
• Product roadmap objectives
• Revenue-generating projects
• Strategic innovation initiatives
• Drive accountability for software quality, predictability, and delivery performance.
• Promote engineering best practices, architectural standards, coding standards, and maintainability.
• Champion modernization efforts, technical debt reduction, platform stability, and automation initiatives.
• Partner with Software Architects to ensure alignment between architecture strategy and implementation execution.

• Ensure successful execution of Agile and Scrum development methodologies.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Agile Delivery leaders to maintain healthy backlogs and release plans.
• Track sprint commitments, team velocity, delivery predictability, and release readiness.
• Remove impediments that impact development productivity.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering workflows.
• Ensure requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and support activities are properly coordinated.

• Develop and maintain software development capacity plans.
• Balance:
• Production support
• Product investments
• Internal initiatives
• Forecast staffing requirements and identify future skillset needs.
• Optimize utilization across internal employees, contractors, and AI-assisted development resources.
• Participate in strategic workforce planning and succession planning…