DUAL ROLE - Development/Career Manager and Software Engineer

At Solution Street, our employees have many opportunities to work on interesting, challenging projects supporting clients one-on-one in various domains primarily in the commercial space. Our company culture thrives on our five core values: Honesty, Respect, Transparency, Dependability, and FUN! They're embedded in everything we do and how we do it!

Local Position - Seeking candidates that are local to the Washington DC Metro Area and are able to regularly attend in person at the Solution Street office in Herndon, Virginia.

Solution Street is looking for an experienced Software Engineer that can also function as a Development and Career Manager. The ideal candidate will have prior hands-on experience as a software developer, a strong background in leading software product development teams and projects, excellent communication skills (both oral and written), and be a team player with strong experience with Agile-based software delivery methodologies.

• Manage approximately 5 Solution Street employees and 1 Solution Street client

• Work as a Senior Software Engineer on one of our client projects

• Interface with and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including client, tech leads, third party vendors to ensure high quality delivery of software projects on time and budget

• Provide input during the determination of the technology strategy and roadmaps

• Function as meeting facilitator and communicator; report status and conduct stakeholder meetings

• Assist with writing business proposals and conduct architectural and business assessments

• Attend and present at local networking events to assist with business development initiatives

Skills and Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of experience as a full-stack software developer; we don’t have a strong preference for a specific programming language.

• 5+ years of consulting experience, ideally at a small to medium size consulting firm.

• A strong background in software construction with a demonstrated understanding of the Agile Scrum development process and enterprise architecture

• At least 2 years of experience as a software development manager or related IT project management, managing projects of 5 people or more

• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with others (internal and external)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proven analytical and problem solving skills; detail oriented;

• Experience using JIRA as a project management tool

• Experience with wireframing preferred
  

About Solution Street

Solution Street, a software engineering firm, was founded by a software developer who envisioned a safe haven for software engineers who wanted to work on interesting, fun projects. Since 2002, we’ve stuck by this principle and as a result, we’ve developed long, lasting relationships with our clients and have a team of great developers who love what they do.

We enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and providing solutions to complex business problems. Our employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using many technologies. We are Microsoft and AWS partners.

At Solution Street we value all employees and job candidates as unique individuals, and we welcome the variety of experiences they bring to our organization. As such, we have a strict non-discrimination policy. We believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.

What's In It for You?

Depending on the position and the candidate’s location, not all roles are available for W-2 employment. In some cases, we may consider engagement through a 1099 contractor arrangement. We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees' 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share our thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletters. To subscribe to our latest blog, please visit: https://us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6a3b68411070f7dab1adb3a8b&id=f0193ac93e. Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit www.solutionstreet.comor check out our Face page https://www.facebook.com/solutionstreet for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together!