Software Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of product-layer coordination and leadership of engineering teams.

• Directly manage engineers through regular 1:1 meetings, career growth, recruitment, and performance evaluations.

• Lead teams across platform, data, and support functions.

• Identify and prioritize modernization, migration, optimization, unplanned technical tasks, and partner integration efforts.

• Ensure the long-term health of data and data pipelines.

• Manage and coordinate incoming requests for reporting tools.

• Ensure that production issues, incidents, and technical escalations from partners are triaged, owned, and resolved.

• Schedule regular 1:1s to promote team growth, engagement, and alignment.

• Conduct performance evaluations and offer coaching.

• Engage in headcount planning, recruitment, and career development.

• Assist in team goal-setting and support Tech Leads with technical decisions and project planning.

• Maintain and prioritize Jira backlogs across Tech Stream, Data, and Primary Tech Support.

• Lead discussions on technical scoping and sequence initiatives accordingly.

• Convert internal stakeholder requests into prioritized tasks.

• Represent technical functions in cross-departmental meetings.

• Align technical roadmaps with Product teams.

• Communicate project status, blockers, and decisions effectively to the organization.

• Guide architecture and design choices, advising stakeholders on system and feature trade-offs.

• Investigate problems, debug critical systems, and review code.

• Enhance development standards and processes.

• Facilitate experimentation and integration of AI tools and AI-driven workflows.

• Assess AI and automation opportunities, coordinating initiatives through to delivery.

• Assist teams in responsibly adopting AI-assisted development while adhering to compliance and data-handling standards.

• Report directly to the CTO.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing engineers directly, including aspects such as hiring, performance reviews, career development, and conducting 1:1s.

• Demonstrated ability to manage a technical backlog and prioritize tasks amidst competing demands.

• Experience in planning and prioritizing modernization and migration initiatives.

• Comfortable working across various technical domains, including infrastructure, data, and application development.

• Strong communication skills to convey technical work to non-technical stakeholders and business context to engineers.

• Experience in coordinating across teams with differing priorities.

• Clear, structured communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Capability to draft actionable engineering tickets and provide comprehensible updates to stakeholders.

• Experience guiding teams in the adoption of AI-assisted development tools or workflows.

• Background in partner or third-party integration projects.

• Applicants must currently be authorized to work full-time in the United States.

• This position is not open to employment-based visa sponsorship, either now or in the future.

• Candidates must currently reside in the United States.

• A current resume and cover letter are required; applications submitted without a cover letter will not be considered.

• Preferred: experience in a startup or mission-driven organization.

• Preferred: familiarity with edtech, healthtech, or similarly regulated/complex product environments.

• Preferred: exposure to compliance or data privacy regulations such as SOC2, CJIS, or HIPAA.

🏝️ Benefits

• A collaborative culture within a remote working environment.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Paid benefits for employees and their families.

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.

• Bi-annual company retreats in both Spring and Fall.