Software Development Manager

Verisk

Software Development Manager leading engineering team for platform modernization at Verisk. Manage tech direction and delivery for a high-visibility desktop product.

Posted 7/29/2026full-timeLehi • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $173,050 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing software engineering teams, focusing on coaching, performance management, and technical fluency across diverse domains. Proven ability to drive high-quality delivery, incident response, and operational excellence in software products while collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.

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Team ManagementTechnical JudgmentCI/CD Pipeline OwnershipIncident ResponseCoaching and Development

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Hard Skills

Software Engineering ManagementSystems ThinkingProblem-SolvingTechnical FluencyLegacy-to-Modern Technology MigrationProduction DeliveryOperational Excellence

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationMentoring

Industry Keywords

Performance ManagementCross-Functional CollaborationStakeholder EngagementAI-Assisted Tools

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage 4 team leads and 3 principal engineers directly, providing coaching, career development, and performance management.
Create clarity and accountability for individual and team goals across a ~30-person org.
Drive hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and compensation input for your reports.
Support the growth of leads and engineers through regular feedback and mentoring, regardless of location or time zone.
Own reliable, high-quality delivery across the team's active initiatives.
Collaborate with Product, QA, and architecture to scope, prioritize, and plan work against committed deadlines, and own outcomes in partnership with them rather than just executing assigned scope.
Remove delivery impediments and own escalation paths for the team.
Own production support, monitoring, and incident response for a widely used desktop client.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience managing software engineering teams of comparable scale, including managing other people-managers (e.g., Team Leads), not only individual contributors.
Strong technical judgment and systems thinking: able to evaluate architecture, tradeoffs, and risk, and engage directly and credibly in technical decisions, even outside your own prior stack experience.
Demonstrated problem-solving ability: a track record of diagnosing and resolving complex technical and organizational problems, not just managing others who solve them.
Ability to synthesize across technical, product, and business context: connecting delivery data, incidents, stakeholder input, and strategic priorities into clear decisions and direction.
Demonstrated ability to rapidly build technical fluency in unfamiliar domains, including using AI-assisted tools to accelerate ramp-up and decision-making. This is core to how the role operates, not a nice-to-have.
Direct experience owning or significantly evolving CI/CD pipelines for a production codebase.
Direct experience leading a legacy-to-modern technology migration (framework, platform, or architecture upgrade) while maintaining active delivery commitments.
Demonstrated ownership of production delivery, incident response, and operational excellence for a widely used software product.
Track record of coaching and developing engineering leads and senior engineers.
Effective communicator able to engage both technical and non-technical, cross-functional stakeholders (Product, QA, architecture).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Insurance
a Retirement Plan
Disability benefits
a Paid Time Off program
competitive total rewards package