Software Engineering Manager

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

📋 Description

• Guide and mentor a Core Team of software engineers.

• Clarify roles, responsibilities, goals, processes, priorities, and expectations.

• Provide consistent coaching, feedback, career advice, and support for professional and technical development.

• Cultivate trust, accountability, continuous improvement, inclusion, and psychological safety.

• Keep engineers motivated with challenging, impactful problems and work that affects customers.

• Eliminate obstacles and minimize team friction.

• Stay closely involved with the team’s systems and direct architectural decisions.

• Actively contribute to code, address bugs, implement fixes, develop features, and handle non-mission-critical triage tasks.

• Advocate for operational excellence, observability, CI/CD health, and readiness for production.

• Assess, adopt, and set standards for AI-assisted coding, code reviews, and testing tools.

• Engage in engineering leadership discussions, decision-making, and process improvement.

• Collaborate with product and design leads to align on priorities and long-term vision.

• Assist hiring teams in identifying, recruiting, and onboarding engineering talent.

• Work with product, design, QA, and engineering leaders to ensure alignment with business objectives.

• Participate in the hiring process and onboarding after an offer is accepted.

⛳️ Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership.

• Previous experience as a software engineer, preferably within the SaaS domain.

• A passion for coding with a habit of regularly contributing fixes, features, and triage efforts.

• Hands-on expertise in AI-first development, including tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or agentic workflows.

• Willingness to work during Eastern Time hours and be based in or able to operate on Eastern Time.

• Capacity to coach and develop engineers at all stages of their careers.

• Strong, empathetic, and effective communication skills.

• Experience in enhancing engineering processes and development workflows.

• Familiarity with agile methodologies and cross-functional team collaboration.

• Strategic mindset with an eye for day-to-day execution details.

• Commitment to fostering inclusive, psychologically safe environments and a culture of continuous learning.

• Enthusiasm for FMX’s mission, alongside values of Teamwork, Excellence, and Integrity.

• Nice to have: experience in native mobile development with Swift or Kotlin.

• Nice to have: familiarity with cloud infrastructure using Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• Nice to have: knowledge of Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance, as well as observability, logging, metrics, traces, alerting, or SIEM.

• Familiarity with .NET/C#, React, TypeScript, React Native, and Azure.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant impact on engineering teams, product development, and company direction, with opportunities for advancement.

• A collaborative, transparent, and tight-knit culture.

• Emphasis on work/life balance.

• Leadership development training.

• Team-building initiatives.

• Dedicated training budget and incentive programs.

• 10% of Engineering team time allocated for learning or personal interest projects.

• Flexible working hours.

• Remote-first approach with the option to work from home.

• Access to the company office as needed.

• Two all-company events held annually.

• Complimentary snacks and beverages available in the office.

• Office kegerator for refreshments.