Software Development Manager

🕒 July 28

🦞 Maine – Remote

🦞 Maine – Remote

💵 $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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IDEXX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

🏥 Healthcare

🔬 Science

🤝 B2B

💰 Seed on 1984-02

Healthcare • Science • B2B

IDEXX is a global veterinary diagnostics and services company that develops products and services to improve the health and well‑being of pets, livestock, and to protect public essentials such as clean drinking water. It provides diagnostic tests, laboratory services, point‑of‑care analyzers, and consultation/testing support for scientists, and also offers practice management and clinical software used by veterinary clinics and reference laboratories. IDEXX primarily serves professional and institutional customers (veterinary practices, labs, and agricultural/food/water safety users) with integrated products and services.

📋 Description

• Lead a small, high-performing agile engineering team of typically 3 to 5 developers • Own team delivery, software quality, and overall team effectiveness • Manage and develop engineers through 1:1s, performance expectations, feedback, career coaching, and performance reviews • Hire, onboard, and retain engineering talent while fostering an inclusive culture • Translate product strategy into actionable delivery plans, define milestones, remove obstacles, and execute against commitments • Partner with Product Owners and Product Managers to prioritize work, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver customer-focused solutions • Contribute hands-on to architecture discussions, code reviews, prototyping, and complex problem-solving across the web application stack • Lead technical decision-making across architecture, system design, engineering standards, and technical direction • Plan, document, and communicate technical initiatives, project status, risks, and key decisions • Collaborate with DevOps and cross-functional engineering teams to build, release, and operate high-quality software • Continuously improve CI/CD processes using Jenkins and GitHub Actions • Leverage AI-powered development tools and coding assistants to improve productivity, code quality, and solution design • Own operational health of applications and services • Lead resolution of production incidents, deployment issues, build failures, and pipeline disruptions • Foster innovation, psychological safety, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement • Work with Neo, IDEXX's cloud-based veterinary practice management software

🎯 Requirements

• People leadership experience managing or leading engineers as a formal manager, team lead, or equivalent • Drive, ownership, and a strong results orientation • Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills • Ability to translate technical subject matter for non-technical audiences • Strong product partnership instincts • Solid hands-on technical background as a software engineer • Strong full web application stack knowledge from database to presentation tier • Experience with PHP, Node.js, and/or other object-oriented and procedural programming languages • Experience with AWS Platform, REST APIs, and data modeling • Experience designing system architectures and coordinating teams to design, code, test, and document significant system changes • Knowledge of relational databases and SQL • Experience with ORM frameworks • Familiarity with AI-powered coding assistants and agents such as Cursor or similar, including their strengths, limitations, and failure modes • Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, and modern CI/CD practices using Jenkins and GitHub Actions • Hiring experience and a high bar for engineering talent • Ability to balance competing priorities across people, delivery, and technical health • Strong general business and company knowledge • No specific educational credential stated

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity for annual cash bonus • Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One • 5% matching 401k • Financial support • Pet insurance • Mental health resources • Volunteer paid days off • Employee stock program • Foundation donation matching • Competitive compensation • Meaningful work that drives improvement

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