Penske Truck Leasing is hiring a Manager of Software Development to join our Customer Digital Engineering (CDE) group. This role provides day-to-day leadership for engineering teams delivering innovative, scalable, and high-quality digital solutions across our customer-facing platforms, ensuring exceptional user experiences aligned with business vision.

What You'll Do

Lead engineering teams in the design, development, enhancement, and support of customer-facing digital applications, ensuring quality, performance, reliability, and security.
Collaborate with Business stakeholders, Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, Cloud Platform Engineers, DevOps, and vendors to shape roadmaps and deliver strategic outcomes.
Guide teams through the full SDLC; conduct performance reviews; mentor engineers; and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
Proactively identify risks and remove blockers; lead post-incident reviews to strengthen platform resilience and prevent recurrence.
Champion modernization initiatives, including cloud adoption, improved reliability and observability, and incorporation of emerging technologies and AI-driven capabilities.
Communicate priorities, timelines, risks, and trade-offs; align technical decisions and roadmaps with business goals.
Provide day-to-day leadership of engineering teams across front-end, back-end, and cloud services with emphasis on quality, observability, and operational excellence.
Prioritize and deliver development projects aligned with evolving customer and business needs while balancing new capabilities with continuous technical improvements.
Ensure seamless integration between front-end applications, backend services, APIs, and enterprise systems.
Track key engineering and platform metrics (availability, performance, defects, throughput, velocity) and use them to drive continuous improvement.
Proactively identify delivery and operational risks with clear mitigation plans; lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
Ensure on-time, defect-free delivery and teams’ adherence to Penske IT governance, architectural standards, security practices, and licensing compliance.
Identify opportunities to simplify systems, optimize processes, and enable new business capabilities by challenging the status quo.
Provide regular updates to leadership on progress, risks, and outcomes.

What We're Looking For

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent software development experience.
10+ years of application development experience.
3+ years leading/supervising software development teams through the full SDLC, including defining complex application architectures and integration across multi-tier systems.
Strong leadership and people management skills with excellent communication, the ability to build trust, inclusive team culture, and high-performing Agile teams.
Proven ability to align technical decisions and roadmaps with business goals, using data and customer insights.
Knowledge of DevOps practices and Agile project management methods and tools; focus on quality, delivery, and operational excellence.
8+ years with web and/or mobile technologies.
Hands-on experience with container platforms and orchestration: OpenShift and related tooling for build/deploy/scale.

Technical Stack

Frontend: Angular (responsive web)
Backend & APIs: Java/Spring Boot (microservices and APIs)
Databases: SQL (Oracle/DB2)
Architectures: Event-driven and domain-driven
Mobile: iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin/Java), Mobile security (OWASP Mobile)
Integration: REST/JSON, Real-time messaging
Platforms: OpenShift, Azure and/or AWS, API Management
Data: Enterprise data platforms (data lakes/warehouses)