Network Guard - Senior Software Development Manager (Core Applications)

Senior Level

Hong Kong

Senior Software Development Manager (Core Applications)

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About Us

At Network Guard , for more than 11 years, we’ve paved the way towards a more private and secure digital world. We’re a global SaaS company and an industry leader in cybersecurity. Millions of consumers worldwide use our internet privacy and security products every day.

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Who we're looking for

Take the lead of our Applications development team. Our company is at an exciting inflection point. We’re planning to massively expand our business by providing new product offerings from within a single application. We need you to facilitate this by leading our apps teams in developing Super Apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, routers and browser extensions.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring that our applications meet world class usability, performance, quality, and security bars and that we can ship our apps to customers every week.

What you will be doing

Responsibility:

Ensure that your department has clear, measurable and achievable OKRs aligned with business goals
Ensure your teams deliver at a high velocity
Ensure your teams’ work is well scoped and prioritised
Set standards for engineering excellence for your teams; measure and hold the teams accountable
Ensure all apps have excellent automated code coverage
Ensure all apps provably meet a high security bar
Ensure your teams have clear and efficient processes for their SDL which enables them to ship applications to customers every week
Ensure you have mitigated operational and security risks and have a clear disaster recovery plan in place
Spot opportunities for efficiency wins by promoting sharing of code, tools, services and knowledge across teams
Ensure your teams’ applications are future proof and that they adopt new technologies at the right pace and manage technical debt effectively
Hire for your team and ensure it has the skills and capacity to meet the business’s needs. Upon joining, you will take on line management responsibility for several people-managers and also some individual contributors for whom we haven’t yet hired or promoted a manager. Successful hiring will be one of your most important deliverables.
Train your team and hold them accountable in meeting the highest standards

Accountable for:

Quality: especially performance, stability, battery-life
Velocity: ultimately measured by how quickly we can deliver value to customers
Meeting SLAs for the build and CI systems
Satisfaction of other engineers with their ability to contribute to each app‍

Who you are

Requirements:

At least 3 years experience as a people manager. You’ve managed your direct reports’ performance and excel at holding your team accountable, leading skills development and career plans, providing continual feedback to your team members, motivating them and coaching them, defining hiring plans, leading interview loops and making hiring decisions.
Experience developing and shipping multiple apps on at least two platforms using native frameworks and languages (Swift, Kotlin, C# WPF)
Passion for writing well-architected, readable code and maintainable code
Expert in writing automated tests and test plans
Good understanding of how to develop code without security vulnerabilities
Experienced at setting goals, tracking progress towards goals and managing large projects
Experienced with project management software like Jira and processes like Scrum or Kanban
Excellent verbal and written communications
Proven track record as a hiring manager
Strong sense of ownership, great problem solver, hunger for learning, positive disposition and an inspiring leader

Beneficial to have:

Experience managing other people managers
Experience developing on both mobile and desktop platforms
Solid understanding of IP networking, including both low-level sockets programming and high-level application layer programming

What we offer