Manager of Software Engineering
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Job description
- Provide overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level software engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
- Lead teams to deliver engineering solutions that have direct business and customer impact, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, and other engineering teams to define scalable and high-performance technical solutions.
- Apply deep technical expertise to design extensible and scalable systems, while coaching and developing both individuals and teams.
- Ensure the team's work aligns with compliance standards, service level agreements (SLAs), and business requirements to achieve initiative objectives. Anticipate the needs and dependencies of broader teams.
- Identify and address issues to execute the book of work, escalating concerns as necessary.
- Proactively maintain high standards of operational excellence for production systems and encourage the development of new technological methods and techniques within the team.
- Coach the agility lead and team to effectively implement and leverage agile practices.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
- Hands-on coding experience with Java or Python, SQL with up-to-date coding skills.
- In-depth knowledge and experience in at least two of the following areas, with developing expertise in the others:
- High-throughput, low-latency microservice development using AWS services such as EKS, ECS, Fargate, and ELB.
- Near real-time stream processing with services like Kinesis, Flink, ECS, and EKS.
- High-volume feature engineering with systems such as Ray or Spark.
- Strong background and experience in agentic systems.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security and Practical cloud native experience
- Proven experience leading at least two scrum teams of technologists, with the ability to guide and coach teams to achieve goals aligned with strategic initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience in hiring, developing, and recognizing talent., * Experience with recommendation and personalization systems
- Experience working at code level
- Strong soft skills, including presenting, negotiating, mentorship, and stakeholder management.
Benefits & conditions
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.