Software Engineering, Manager

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Software Engineering Manager  

At Black Duck Software, we pride ourselves on building products that help our customers keep their applications safe and secure. Our people do this so well, we have been named the AppSec leader for seven years in a row by Gartner.   

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Engineering Manager to spearhead the next evolution of our application security platform. Join us and be part of a team that’s pushing the boundaries of technology with agile practices, cloud-native patterns and state-of-the-art engineering methodologies.   

 The ideal candidate is an inspiring engineering leader and technology enthusiast, with a successful track record delivering innovative features, while ensuring existing customers remain productive and happy.   

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on direction to a software engineering team, collaborating with product management and architecture leads to deliver agreed-upon roadmap items. 

• Drive the delivery of engineering deliverables across multiple development organizations. 

• Serve as the scrum master, leading cross-functional teams including development, user experience, and quality assurance. 

• Partner with Product Management to ensure successful product delivery from conception to release. 

• Communicate engineering release health, issues, and risks to stakeholders at various levels within the organization. 

• Proactively manage engineering risks and issues to mitigate or eliminate undesirable impacts. 

• Serve as the primary communication mechanism within the development team, ensuring timely and accurate information exchange. 

• Build strong partnerships across the organization. 

• Take initiative as a technical problem solver, identifying and resolving technical issues and challenges. 

• Lead scrum meetings. 

Key requirements:

• Provide leadership to achieve high software engineering standards, including quality, security, stability, and scalability. 

• 5-7 years of experience mentoring and growing successful engineering teams. 

• Continuously improve tools and best practices for development activities. 

• Utilize agile and iterative approaches to manage development efforts. 

• Demonstrate high levels of leadership and accountability. 

• Collaborate with team members to promote productivity and effectiveness. 

• Experience in rapid development frameworks and an enthusiasm for driving a team to quickly build prototypes to help drive technology decisions 

• Experience with Agile software methodologies. 

• Strong technical leadership capabilities and ability to drive key technical architecture decisions 

• Strong organizational and leadership skills with the ability to drive day-to-day activities. 

• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and other Program Management tools. 

• Understanding of programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, SQL. 

• Open source software experience preferred. 

• Ability to work and solve problems both as part of a team and independently. 

• Demonstrate relentless follow-up and follow-through. 

• Hire, manage, and develop a professional staff of engineers. 

Who are we a good fit for? We seek talented, compassionate, and motivated co-workers with a collaborative spirit. Our work moves quickly, and we excel at finding creative solutions to some of tech’s most interesting problems. If this sounds appealing to you, join us. 

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.