Manager Application Development

Come join our GTE Financial team!

We are looking for an experienced Application Development Manager to lead and actively contribute to the development, implementation, integration, maintenance, and support of GTE Financials’ business applications.

This is a hands-on development leadership position. In addition to managing the application development team, this individual is expected to personally design solutions, write and review code, develop integrations, troubleshoot technical issues, support releases, and resolve production problems.

This is not a management-only position. Hands-on software development is an essential responsibility of the role.

What does GTE look for as an Application Development Manager?Application Development & Technical Responsibilities:

• Personally design, develop, test, document, deploy, maintain, and support enterprise applications and integrations.
• Write, modify, troubleshoot, and review production-quality application code.
• Develop and support internal and member-facing applications, APIs, integrations, database solutions, and automated processes.
• Translate business and technical requirements into effective software solutions.
• Diagnosing and resolving complex applications, integration, database, performance, and production issues.
• Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance on design, security, performance, maintainability, and development standards.
• Participate directly in testing, defect resolution, application releases, deployments, and production support.
• Maintain strong knowledge of GTE Financial’s application codebase and be capable of stepping in to personally resolve critical development or production issues.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, secure development practices, source control, testing, documentation, and release procedures.
• Evaluate and apply modern development technologies, automation, DevOps practices, cloud capabilities, and AI-assisted development where appropriate.

Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead, coach, and managing application developers.
• Assign and prioritize development work based on business needs, technical complexity, team capacity, and delivery commitments.
• Provide direct technical assistance to developers through coding support, troubleshooting, architecture guidance, and code reviews.
• Establish expectations for application quality, security, reliability, documentation, accountability, and timely delivery.
• Conduct regular coaching, performance evaluations, and professional development discussions.
• Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, cross-training, and documentation to reduce key-person dependencies.
• Assist in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, and developing application-development professionals.