Software Development Manager; On-site

• Compensation: USD 170,000 - USD 200,000 - yearly

With approximately 100,000 planted acres in California's San Joaquin Valley, Wonderful Orchards is the world's largest grower of almonds, pistachios and pomegranates. Wonderful Orchards is a part of The Wonderful Company, a privately held $5 billion global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world through its iconic consumer brands which include Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora, and JUSTIN Wine.

Wonderful Orchards is seeking a Software Development Manager that leads developers, partners with stakeholders, and develops the technical strategy that the development team uses to build and maintain the company’s custom applications, enterprise integrations and reporting solutions. This position owns application architecture, delivery priorities, team development, production reliability, and modernization planning across environments that are primarily built with .NET and Oracle technologies.

Hands-on, technical leadership is required including architecture and code reviews, complex troubleshooting, but most importantly performance of the team and application portfolio.

• Lead, coach, and evaluate .NET and Oracle developers, while developing the team’s technical and leadership capabilities.
• Establish team goals, allocate resources, manage workloads, and support succession and professional development.
• Own application roadmaps, priorities, delivery commitments, and the long-term health of the application portfolio.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and establish realistic delivery plans.
• Provide architectural direction for .NET applications, Oracle database solutions, APIs, and enterprise integrations.
• Establish and enforce standards for design, development, code review, testing, security, documentation, deployment, and support.
• Oversee Azure Dev Ops backlogs, Git repositories, build and release pipelines, and related development controls.
• Ensure production reliability through monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
• Plan and lead platform upgrades, application modernization, technical‑debt reduction, and application retirement.
• Manage contractors, consulting firms, budgets, statements of work, and vendor performance.
• Communicate delivery status, risks, resource constraints, and technical recommendations for business and IT leadership.
• Participate directly in architecture reviews, complex troubleshooting, and critical development work when appropriate.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in application development, software architecture, or enterprise systems.
• Five or more years of experience leading software-development teams, including coaching, performance management, and resource planning.

• Strong experience with C#, modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, relational data modeling, and REST APIs.
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise applications, database solutions, and system integrations.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops, Git, automated build and deployment pipelines,…