Software Release Coordinator

 
 
Why Altium?

Altium is transforming the way electronics are designed and built. From startups to world's technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before.

• Constant innovation has created a transformative technology, unique in its space
• More than 30,000 companies and 100,000 electronics engineers worldwide use Altium
• We are growing, debt-free, and financially strong, with the resources to become #1 in the EDA industry

Why A365 Software Engineering?

Build the cloud platform that's transforming electronics design. Altium 365 for cloud lets design engineers communicate, collaborate and bring their ideas to market more efficiently than any platform in the industry. These are some of the R&D Software Engineering contributions you might make to Altium 365:    

• Building new cloud-native applications and scalable infrastructure
• Utilizing AI and ML to power advanced search capabilities
• Large-scale data processing; data modeling; holistic, intent-based API design
• Stateful and stateless servers, relational databases, ORM frameworks

Altium offers the opportunity to conceive and build new product features for electronics engineers, and add your own ideas to the world's most collaborative and efficient electronics design platform.

About the role: 

Software Release Coordinator will be responsible for effectively and efficiently managing the delivery of our software products. This involves release preparation, scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, and will require interaction with Product Managers, Developers, QA, Internal Business Stakeholders, and Beta users.

Release Coordinator responsibilities also include building, managing, and communicating a Release Schedule – a coordinated view of all releases. The Release Coordinator works with Product and Dev Management to identify and manage dependencies between releases and ensure that all releases are scheduled to avoid conflicts and excessive demands on resources.

Responsibilities

• Drive the release planning and scheduling process for all Altium software products
• Work with Management, Development, and QA to identify and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality
• Primary support contact for deployment-related issues in all environments
• Conduct Release Readiness Reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Reviews
• Lead and coordinate the release activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists
• Coordinate release notes preparation process
• Investigate and resolve build and deployment issues
• Create, review, publish, and manage formal release notifications and community forum updates.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must
• 2+ years of previous release and/or project management experience
• Strong knowledge of Git, and code branch management
• Experience with build automation tools such as Jenkins or TeamCity
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of SDLC
• Hands-on experience with project and task management tools (Jira, etc.)
• Ability to handle multiple projects and changing priorities.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language
• Hands-on experience implementing and supporting automated CI/CD
• Solid understanding of project management principles
• Jira administration experience

This is a hybrid-mode role in our Belgrade office: 3 days a week from the office, 2 days a week from home or office, as you wish.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance 100% covered for employee and family members
• , mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional development support
• Performance bonuses
• Flexible working arrangements available based on role and location
• Home internet allowance
• Lunch, snacks and drinks stipend
• Annual Leave Allowance

Our hybrid schedule 

Our global hybrid model allows employees to work remotely two days per week. Our designated In-Office Days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. This is when we come together in-person as a team to collaborate, learn from one another, and accelerate innovation. Some exceptions apply.

Also, we would like you to know
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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Are you already an Altium employee? Please apply directly through our internal Greenhouse job board. If you have questions, please contact HR.

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