Manager, Software Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 8–10 software engineers, encompassing hiring, onboarding, performance management, career advancement, and promotion preparedness.

• Cultivate an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing engineering culture by establishing clear expectations, offering timely feedback, and coaching engineers on execution, ownership, technical judgement, and stakeholder communication.

• Drive the team's technical execution and roadmap in collaboration with Product, Architecture, and Engineering leadership.

• Convert product and engineering strategies into actionable plans, priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Manage release readiness activities, including quality gates, go/no-go decisions, incident reviews, and Sev1/Sev2 operational management.

• Oversee the team's delivery, quality, operational readiness, On Call duties, and predictability, while managing capacity, execution risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Architecture teams to enhance platform reliability, observability, deployment automation, and operational excellence.

• Uphold strong engineering discipline across planning, estimation, design reviews, testing, CI/CD, incident management, retrospectives, and technical debt management.

• Provide technical leadership by reviewing designs, implementation approaches, and operational considerations to ensure quality, scalability, maintainability, and alignment with engineering standards.

• Define team ownership, responsibilities, and decision-making processes to facilitate efficient execution while maintaining quality and alignment.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 2 years of experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, performance management, career development, and team growth.

• 3 to 5+ years of experience leading the delivery of complex software systems in SaaS, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or enterprise software settings.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality software through a team while balancing scope, schedule, quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Experience in building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems using Go, Java, C#, Python, or similar programming languages.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.

• Ability to plan, prioritize, and execute effectively while managing ambiguity, cross-team dependencies, and shifting business priorities.

• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, performance management, career development, and building accountable, high-performing teams.

• Robust cross-functional partnership skills with the capability to align engineering delivery with product priorities, platform strategy, and organizational goals.

• Experience enhancing engineering practices such as planning, estimation, design reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical debt management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus or commission

• Medical coverage

• Retirement plans

• Financial benefits

• Wellness programs

• Time off

• Employee discounts