Development Team Leader Manager

Salary: ₱80,000 – ₱110,000 per month

Job Role: Application Development Manager
Reports to: Application Development Director
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Location: Remote

Position Summary Nustar is seeking an experienced Application Development Team Lead / Manager to support the continued improvement and delivery of the organization’s application portfolio. Reporting directly to the Application Development Director, this role will help streamline day-to-day application development operations, establish visibility into project progress, provide technical direction to development teams, and contribute hands-on code when business requirements call for it.

The successful candidate will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders, project leadership, and application development teams. This position is responsible for helping translate business needs into practical technical solutions, coordinating development activities, identifying risks and dependencies, promoting sound engineering practices, and ensuring that work is delivered with appropriate quality, security, maintainability, and alignment to NuStar Resorts’ operational priorities.

This is a player-coach leadership role. The position requires the ability to guide and support developers while remaining technically engaged in application design, development, troubleshooting, code review, integration, testing, and production support.

Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Operational Coordination
• Help organize and streamline application development operations, including intake, prioritization, assignment, status tracking, delivery coordination, and escalation of issues.
• Monitor team workload, project milestones, sprint commitments, deliverables, and dependencies, and provide timely progress updates to the Application Development Director.
• Establish practical team processes that improve visibility, accountability, communication, and consistency across application development efforts.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders, project managers, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, data teams, vendors, and other technology groups to support successful delivery.
• Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, technical blockers, and cross-team dependencies early, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate regular status reviews, planning sessions, technical discussions, retrospectives, and other meetings that support effective execution.
• Help maintain accurate development roadmaps, project documentation, technical decisions, issue logs, and operational procedures.

Technical Oversight and Solution Delivery
• Provide technical leadership throughout the application development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Review business and technical requirements to confirm that proposed solutions are feasible, scalable, supportable, secure, and aligned with organizational standards.
• Guide application architecture, integration patterns, data flows, API design, coding practices, development tooling, and deployment approaches as appropriate to the environment.
• Review technical designs, pull requests, implementation plans, and code to promote quality, maintainability, performance, and consistency.
• Support the resolution of complex technical problems and help the team diagnose application defects, integration issues, performance concerns, and production incidents.
• Encourage appropriate use of testing, source control, peer review, documentation, monitoring, logging, release management, and change control.
• Promote secure development practices and collaborate with appropriate technology and security stakeholders to address vulnerabilities and compliance requirements.
• Evaluate technical debt and recommend opportunities to modernize, simplify, stabilize, or improve the application portfolio.

Hands-On Application Development
• Design, develop, enhance, test, deploy, and maintain applications and integrations based on approved business and technical requirements.
• Write production-quality code and contribute directly to priority initiatives, complex features, prototypes, defect resolution, and technical improvements.
• Participate in database development, API and system integration, automation, reporting, data validation, and application performance improvements as required.
• Develop reusable components, technical standards, implementation patterns, and documentation that improve team productivity and solution consistency.
• Support code reviews and mentor developers through constructive feedback, pairing, knowledge sharing, and technical coaching.
• Participate in on-call, release, incident response, or production support activities when required by the team’s operating model.

Stakeholder Communication and Continuous Improvement
• Translate technical concepts, delivery risks, and solution tradeoffs into clear information for technical and non technical audiences.
• Partner with business teams to clarify requirements, validate priorities, manage expectations, and confirm that delivered solutions address operational needs.
• Provide concise, accurate, and actionable reporting to the Application Development Director regarding progress, risks, decisions, resource needs, and upcoming milestones.
• Recommend improvements to development workflows, team practices, application support processes, and delivery metrics.
• Contribute to technology planning, budgeting inputs, vendor coordination, hiring support, and the development of team standards and policies.

Performance Expectations
Success in this role will be measured by the team’s ability to deliver reliable solutions with improved visibility, predictability, and operational discipline. The successful candidate will help ensure that development work is appropriately prioritized, progress is transparent, technical decisions are well considered, risks are surfaced early, and applications are delivered and supported effectively.

Performance Area Expected: Outcome
Operational efficiency: Development processes are organized, repeatable, and aligned with business priorities. Delivery visibility: The Application Development Director and key stakeholders have timely, accurate information about progress, risks, and dependencies.
Technical quality: Applications and integrations meet appropriate standards for reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and supportability.
Hands-on contribution: The team receives meaningful technical leadership and direct development support on priority work.
Team effectiveness: Developers are supported through clear direction, mentoring, collaboration, and constructive feedback.
Continuous improvement: Bottlenecks, technical debt, and process gaps are identified and addressed through practical improvements.

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of professional experience in application development, software engineering, systems integration, or a closely related discipline.
• Prior experience leading application development work, serving as a technical lead, supervising developers, or managing delivery across multiple initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, and supporting business applications in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software development life-cycle practices, source control, code review, testing, release management, and application support.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical designs and actionable development tasks.
• Ability to read, write, review, and troubleshoot code in one or more modern programming languages used by the organization.
• Experience working with relational databases, APIs, system integrations, and common enterprise application patterns.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical work.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in hospitality, resorts, travel, entertainment, retail, gaming, or another operationally complex customer-facing industry.
• Experience supporting applications used across multiple business functions, locations, properties, or operating units.
• Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, automated testing, or modern DevOps practices.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience managing production incidents, release coordination, vendor relationships, and application service level expectations.
• Experience with enterprise resource planning, property management, point-of-sale, customer relationship management, workforce, finance, reservations, loyalty, or other hospitality-related systems.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity principles, privacy requirements, access controls, secure coding, and technology risk management.
• Experience with project management, work management, or service management platforms.

Technical Competencies
The specific technology stack will depend on NuStar Resorts’ application environment. Candidates should be able to demonstrate relevant experience in several of the following areas:

Competency Examples:
Application development: Web, mobile, desktop, service-oriented, event-driven, or enterprise applications Programming: JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, Python, PHP, or other organization-supported languages Integration: REST APIs, web services, messaging, middleware, ETL, third-party platforms, and enterprise integrations
Data: SQL, relational database design, data modeling, reporting, data quality, and performance tuning Engineering practices: Git-based version control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and deployment automation
Cloud and infrastructure: Public cloud services, containers, virtual environments, networking, identity, and configuration management
Delivery management: Agile planning, backlog management, milestone tracking, risk management, documentation, and status reporting

Leadership Competencies
The ideal candidate is a practical and collaborative leader who can create structure without unnecessary bureaucracy. They should be comfortable making decisions, asking clarifying questions, communicating directly, and escalating issues appropriately. They should also be able to build trust with developers and business partners, explain technical tradeoffs clearly, remain calm during production issues, and maintain focus on delivering business value.

The role requires sound judgment, ownership, adaptability, attention to detail, and a continuous-improvement mindset. Because this is a player-coach position, the successful candidate must be equally comfortable facilitating a planning discussion, reviewing an architecture, coaching a developer, presenting status to leadership, and writing or troubleshooting code.

Working Relationships
This position reports directly to the Application Development Director and works closely with application developers, business analysts, project and program managers, infrastructure and operations teams, cybersecurity, data and analytics teams, vendors, and business leaders across NuStar Resorts.