Technical Manager

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Want to be a hands-on technologist leading a great team of developers? Love working with great team? Join a team of great product development experts.

3Pillar was founded by high performing technologists who love working with other high performing people.  We have built a fantastic team in our Fairfax, VA headquarters of Engineering, Product Consulting, UX, and Design, working both as a local team as well as being the local part of a global organization, working in conjunction with our employees in India and Romania.  At the core of our company is a love of building great software products that deliver business value to our clients.  3Pillar has achieved sector-leading growth by delivering high value across a wide range of engagements.

Projects
We solve hard problems for our clients.  Current projects under development by the US team include building a cryptocurrency-based loyalty rewards system, ingesting and visualizing data for a high-volume sensor network, and porting a massive data processing system from on-premise to AWS.  The thing we know for sure about our projects is that we’re not sure what the next problem is that we’ll get to solve!

Job
We need hands-on technical leaders who can contribute directly onto technical projects while leading a team of first-rate developers.  Technical Managers at 3Pillar must have demonstrated deep expertise in at least one stack and general knowledge across a wide array of technologies, as well as leading and managing other developers, while working with project stakeholders or clients to make sure project expectations are met.

As a Technical Manager in 3Pillar’s US office, you will be part of a team building great software products for our clients.  You will be expected to add functionality end-to-end in projects where your technical expertise is needed, and learn new technologies and techniques along the way.  3Pillar is driven by lean and agile principles.  You will be expected to be a part of the process of prioritizing to get to MVP, breaking down features into workable user stories, estimating those stories, and implementing them according to your estimates.


Requirements

    • Passion for technology.
    • Expert in at least one full-stack ecosystem, including: expert in at least one modern front-end framework, for instance a javascript or mobile platform.
    • Expert in implementing backend features, for instance building APIs, implementing business logic functionality, interfacing with databases, integrating with services.
    • Comfortable working with modern HTML/CSS- able to build at least rudimentary UI.  (Our UI developers can make them pixel-perfect later!)
    • Expert with one modern development environment (muJava, .NET, GoLang, etc)
    • Expert working in modern development ecosystem- Jira/Git- including best practices- code reviews, etc.
    • Strong understanding of multiple software product architectures such as MVC, APIs, etc.
    • Strong experience being a technical leader on a product development team.
    • Ability to manage a team developing a software using lean and agile principles.
    • Proven experience working with product owners (internal or external) to understand requirements, negotiate priority, communicate status, and (most importantly) deliver results.

    • You must be committed to being a team player, willing to listen to others and join in the conversation to move a project in the best possible direction.  Leave your ego at the door!

      We’re looking forward to having some new members join our team!

Benefits

    • A competitive annual salary based on experience and market demands
    • Unlimited PTO Policy
    • Employer funded medical plan for employees and their dependents
    • Employer funded dental plan for employees and their dependents
    • Employer funded vision plan with the option to purchase a premium plan
    • 401K retirement savings plan with 100% match of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 2%
    • Company paid disability and life insurance and the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and family
    • 9 Company paid Holidays
    • Business casual atmosphere
3Pillar Global is headquartered in Fairfax, VA, with delivery centers in Romania and India.

3Pillar Global Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.