Manager of Software Development
VELOCITOR SOLUTIONS · Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Manager of Software Development
Location: Charlotte, NC
Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
About Velocitor Solutions
Velocitor Solutions is a leader in enterprise fleet management and mobile innovation, celebrating over 25 years of profitably growing technology. We go beyond standard telematics by offering a comprehensive, managed ecosystem—managing over 200,000 mobile assets for Fortune 500 clients across North America. Our V-Track platform integrates GPS tracking, AI-powered video telematics, and real-time data to drive safety and efficiency. We are in a pivotal phase of growth and looking to expand technology team.
Why Join Velocitor Solutions
As the Manager of Software Development, you will lead and develop Velocitor’s 30+ person engineering organization, balancing hands-on technical leadership with strategic vision. You’ll lead engineering for a 24x7 platform operating at enterprise scale, unite our onshore, nearshore, and offshore teams into one high-performing organization, make AI-assisted engineering the default way we work, and report directly to the CTO, collaborating closely with project, product, platform, and quality leadership to shape the company’s technology direction.
Role Summary
The Manager of Software Development is the functional leader for Velocitor’s software engineering team, responsible for the people, skills, and engineering standards behind a high-volume, 24x7 telematics platform: the V-Track web platform, APIs, mobile applications (iOS/Android), and client integrations that process real-time GPS and telemetry data from more than 200,000 assets for Fortune 500 clients. You will manage 30+ FTEs, a mix of employees and consultants across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations, building in .NET, React, KMM, and .NET MAUI. Working alongside our Project Manager and Product Owners, who own sprint and release execution, you will ensure every project has the right engineers aligned and focused on delivery. You will be a player-coach—capable of coaching an engineer through a design review in the morning and working through resource plans with project and product leadership in the afternoon.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Talent Development
- Serve as functional manager for 30+ engineers across mobile, web, back-end, and full-stack development, owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
- Set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s and performance reviews, and address underperformance directly and early.
- Build a culture of ownership where engineers own their code from design through production support.
Resource Management & Delivery Partnership
- Partner with the Project Manager and Product Owners to ensure each project has the right engineers, skills, and capacity aligned and focused on delivery.
- Own resource planning and allocation across projects, anticipating demand and resolving conflicts before they become delays.
- Raise capacity and skill risks early, and propose options such as reallocation, hiring, or consultant ramp-up.
- Maintain visibility into allocation, utilization, and skills coverage, and report team health metrics to the CTO.
AI-Assisted Engineering
- Make AI-assisted development the team’s default, including agentic coding tools, AI-assisted pull request review, and AI-generated tests and documentation.
- Measure the impact of AI tooling on productivity and quality, and scale what works.
- Define guardrails for AI-generated code covering ownership, security review, and data handling.
Engineering Standards & Operational Partnership
- Own engineering standards: coding practices, pull request review, unit test coverage, and definition of done.
- Ensure the team designs and builds for scale, with performance, concurrency, and resilience built in for high-volume, real-time data ingestion and 24x7 availability.
- Partner with Quality Engineering and DevOps to embed automated quality gates in the CI/CD pipeline.
- Contribute to architectural direction with the CTO and Platform Engineering, including the move toward cloud-native services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Promote standard integration patterns so new client and vendor integrations become configuration, not custom code.
- Partner with SRE, DevOps, DBAs, and the Managed Services team on incident response and "Root Cause Analysis" (RCA) loops back into engineering, and support SOC 2 Type II controls across the SDLC.
Global Delivery Model
- Drive synergies across onshore, nearshore, and offshore teams, operating them as one engineering organization rather than separate vendors or queues.
- Establish shared standards, tooling, onboarding, and ways of working for employees and consultants in every location.
- Design collaboration models that turn time-zone coverage into an advantage, including structured handoffs, overlap hours, and cross-location pairing.
- Identify skill gaps and duplication across locations, and rebalance work, skills, and headcount to maximize capability and cost efficiency.