Manager, Software Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +32 more locations.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee a software engineering team tasked with backend services, APIs, and product integrations.

• Provide support to direct reports through one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, performance evaluations, career coaching, and development plans.

• Recruit, interview, onboard, and retain top engineering talent.

• Establish priorities, manage delivery commitments, identify risks and obstacles, and communicate schedule impacts and technical trade-offs.

• Offer technical direction for backend APIs, services, and integration layers.

• Facilitate technical design reviews and empower senior engineers and technical leads.

• Act as the primary engineering liaison for external vendors and technology partners.

• Clarify technical requirements, define interfaces, review designs, coordinate testing, manage dependencies, and resolve integration challenges.

• Create ownership structures, communication channels, escalation paths, and working agreements with both internal teams and external partners.

• Collaborate with Program Engineering, DevOps, QA, Security, Product, and Program Management teams.

• Develop practices for documentation, code quality, automated testing, release readiness, monitoring, operational runbooks, and production support.

• Encourage the reuse of shared services, interfaces, AI best practices, integration components, and engineering patterns.

⛳️ Requirements

• Software engineering experience in backend, platform, distributed-system, or integration-focused settings.

• Strong capabilities in systems architecture and technical design.

• Proven experience in directly managing or formally leading a software engineering team.

• Background in coaching, providing performance feedback, career development, and fostering team culture.

• Experience in managing team priorities, capacity, technical dependencies, and delivery commitments.

• Proficiency in designing, building, or operating RESTful APIs, service-oriented or microservice architectures, event-driven systems, and resilient integration workflows.

• Familiarity with Kotlin, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, and TypeScript.

• Experience collaborating with external vendors, technology partners, customer engineering teams, and internal stakeholders.

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, observability, security, and production operations.

• Active or prior TS/SCI clearance.

• Eligibility to work in the United States or United Kingdom, subject to specified hiring-location restrictions.

• Willingness to travel approximately 20% of the time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Approximately 20% travel to customer, vendor, partner, and Slingshot locations.

• Equal employment opportunity workplace.