Software Development Manager, Computer Backup

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team responsible for the Backblaze Computer Backup desktop client (Windows and macOS) and its supporting backend services.
• Ensure the desktop and backend areas operate well together, with shared goals and a consistent agile delivery process.
• Provide oversight of the team's agile process, ensuring ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives are run well and consistently across both areas.
• Own delivery across the client and backend, from planning and design through implementation and post-launch support, partnering with dedicated QA and release teams for testing and delivery.
• Ensure the reliability, performance, and maintainability of the backup client and backend services that customers depend on to protect their data.
• Champion engineering quality by growing unit testing and other automated test coverage, and by keeping testing a first-class part of how the team builds and ships software.
• Take part hands-on in code reviews, architecture decisions, and technical problem-solving across both desktop and server work.
• Partner with Product Management to shape roadmap priorities and long-term strategy, bringing an engineering perspective to the discussion, and translate agreed priorities into well-scoped plans with clear milestones.
• Work closely with QA and release engineering teams to ensure clean handoffs, clear acceptance criteria, and high-quality delivery.
• Champion the effective use of AI-assisted development tools, guide team members in adopting agentic coding practices, and help establish team norms around AI-augmented workflows.

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