Software Development Manager - Verisk

Xactimate is the industry-standard platform for property claims estimating, and Xactimate Desktop is its primary client application: a large, actively modernized Windows desktop product with a substantial engineering footprint.

We're hiring a Software Development Manager to lead this team through its next phase of new feature delivery and platform modernization. You'll own delivery, technical direction, and people leadership across the team.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to run a substantial, high-visibility desktop product. We're looking for strong technical judgment, problem-solving, and the ability to synthesize across technical, product, and business context.

Why Join the Team

This is an opportunity to make a real technical and organizational impact on a large, high-visibility product, with the backing and scope of an established platform behind you. You'll lead a capable team of leads and senior engineers across the US and India, taking on both new feature delivery and platform modernization work with real room to shape both the technology and the team.

People Management

Manage 4 team leads and 3 principal engineers directly, providing coaching, career development, and performance management.

Create clarity and accountability for individual and team goals across a ~30-person org.

Drive hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and compensation input for your reports.

Support the growth of leads and engineers through regular feedback and mentoring, regardless of location or time zone.

Delivery & Execution

Own reliable, high-quality delivery across the team's active initiatives.

Collaborate with Product, QA, and architecture to scope, prioritize, and plan work against committed deadlines, and own outcomes in partnership with them rather than just executing assigned scope.

Remove delivery impediments and own escalation paths for the team.

Own production support, monitoring, and incident response for a widely used desktop client.

Technical Leadership & Modernization

Provide direction on technical decisions in partnership with principal engineers and architects across a large modular monorepo (shared business, data, database, and UI libraries), grounded in technical judgment and systems thinking, not necessarily prior hands-on time in this exact stack.

Own CI/CD pipeline health for the team: build, test, and release automation across the monorepo, evolving it as the codebase and delivery cadence grow.

Own release and deployment engineering, ensuring build, packaging, and update processes stay reliable as the platform evolves.

Lead the team's legacy-to-modern technology transitions, balancing continued feature delivery against migration debt and sequencing risk.

Ensure code quality, scalability, and maintainability across a mix of modernized and legacy .NET targets.