Software Development Manager
Posted Sep 23, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about the team you lead now. How do you help each of your developers grow?
What they are checking: Whether they have a real, individual approach to developing people, which is the core of leading three to five developers.
How do you stay technical enough to give good guidance while still making time for management work?
What they are checking: Whether they can balance hands-on guidance with leadership, which this role expects.
Tell me about a project that went off track. What did you do to recover it?
What they are checking: Whether they spot problems early, communicate honestly and adjust plans instead of hiding delays.
How do you build a culture of high performance and continuous improvement without burning people out?
What they are checking: Whether they push standards up in a sustainable way that keeps good developers around.
How do you decide when to step in on a technical problem and when to let a developer work through it?
What they are checking: Whether they know when struggle builds skill and when it just wastes time, which marks a good coach.
Tell me about someone you hired or developed who later grew into a bigger role.
What they are checking: Whether their leadership has produced real growth in people, not just finished projects.
What would you do
One of your developers is falling behind and their code quality has slipped. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they address performance early with clear expectations and support, rather than avoiding the conversation.
Product wants a feature that your team thinks will create technical debt. How do you work it out?
What they are checking: Whether they can balance business goals with long-term code health and explain the tradeoff clearly.
A business stakeholder brings you vague requirements for a complex application. How does your team turn that into something buildable?
What they are checking: Whether they help their team break down fuzzy needs into clear work, instead of building on guesses.
About the work
What makes a software solution scalable and resilient? Give me an example of a design decision you pushed for.
What they are checking: Whether they have the technical depth to guide design choices that hold up at Uline's scale.
How do you align architecture and design decisions across several Agile teams that each want to move fast?
What they are checking: Whether they can coordinate across teams so systems fit together instead of each team building in its own direction.
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