Software Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams and take ownership of delivery for a specific product or platform area.

• Manage sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, risk assessment, and accountability for committed work.

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to transform roadmap priorities into actionable plans.

• Enhance Scrum/Agile processes, backlog readiness, estimation accuracy, velocity, throughput, cycle time, and team operational rhythm.

• Provide technical guidance across the modern web stack and cloud infrastructure.

• Review design proposals, architectural plans, and critical code paths.

• Optimize CI/CD practices, code review processes, observability, testing, and incident response methodologies.

• Utilize DORA metrics to pinpoint bottlenecks and steer engineering enhancements.

• Advocate for responsible AI integration throughout the software development lifecycle and assess AI tooling.

• Manage, mentor, and develop engineers through one-on-one meetings, feedback, growth planning, hiring, onboarding, and retention efforts.

• Guide senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.

• Collaborate with stakeholders in the U.S. as well as Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams.

• Communicate trade-offs, risks, and delivery status to both technical and non-technical partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering.

• 2–4+ years in a leadership role such as Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or similar position.

• Proven experience delivering production software in a SaaS, web platform, or product-driven environment.

• Experience working with distributed or remote teams.

• A solid record of implementing or enhancing Scrum/Agile methodologies.

• Strong background in full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Practical experience with Node.js, React/Next.js, and API design and usage.

• Experience managing production workloads on a major cloud platform, preferably AWS.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and contemporary software delivery processes.

• Strong grasp of maintainable architecture, delivery trade-offs, and engineering excellence.

• Excellent communication and coaching skills.

• Ability to balance speed, quality, and business objectives effectively.

• Capacity to engage deeply with technical issues without causing bottlenecks.

• Ability to maintain composure under ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

• Passion for AI and active engagement in AI-assisted development experimentation.

• Successful completion of a background check, which includes criminal records, prior employment, and education verification.

• Availability for flexible night-shift hours within 6:00 PM–7:00 AM PHT, with some overlap with U.S. teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Create technology that has a significant impact on real lives.

• Collaborate with a mission-driven global team.

• Stay close to product and code while advancing your leadership skills.

• Contribute to shaping how Career Team expands its engineering organization.

• Access to tools and mandate to modernize software development practices with AI.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.