Software Engineering Manager

Reporting to the Vice President of Engineering, the Software Engineering Manager will lead a cross-functional team developing desktop, mobile, cloud, and infrastructure software solutions. This hands-on leadership role combines technical contribution, architectural direction, and team development.

The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering leadership experience and a solid technical foundation across modern software platforms. You and your team will be responsible for the architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of software products across desktop and mobile platforms, working closely with Product Management, Design, QA, and other stakeholders.

This role offers the opportunity to directly influence engineering culture, mentor talented developers, and contribute to innovative software solutions used by leading technology partners worldwide., Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers across platforms
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, performance reviews, and career development planning
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture
• Support hiring, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent
• Inspire and guide engineers in achieving both business and technical goals

Architecture & Technical Direction

• Define and champion technical decisions across cloud infrastructure, backend services, APIs, databases, and application platforms.
• Guide technology selection, software design patterns, and platform strategies
• Lead technical design reviews and ensure alignment with long-term product goals
• Evaluate trade-offs between scalability, maintainability, performance, and delivery timelines
• Promote engineering best practices, code quality, and test-driven development methodologies

Execution & Delivery

• Partner with Product Management and stakeholders to scope, prioritize, and deliver engineering projects
• Break down product requirements and technical designs into actionable development tasks
• Remove technical blockers and facilitate collaboration across teams
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines
• Work closely with Project Management to ensure timelines and deliverables are completed on time and within scope

Technical Contribution

• Remain technically engaged and provide hands-on support for critical engineering initiatives when needed.
• Collaborate on Linux development efforts including C/C++, shell scripting, and build systems
• Improve and maintain cross-platform build infrastructure using CMake
• Provide technical guidance for web technology integrations including HTML5, JavaScript, React, and REST APIs
• Participate in code reviews, troubleshooting, and system design discussions

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience leading complex software projects
• 3+ years of engineering leadership and people management experience
• Linux development experience including C/C++, shell scripting, and build systems
• Experience using CMake for cross-platform build configuration
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns including MVC, MVVM, and dependency injection
• Experience with Git, version control workflows, code reviews, and CI/CD practices
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing applications on macOS and/or iOS platforms.
• Experience integrating with hardware instruments or device SDKs, such as USB (WinUSB/HID/libusb), serial/FTDI, DDC-CI, or network device protocols
• Familiarity with Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Xcode, and Apple development tools including Instruments, TestFlight, Xcode Cloud, and FastLane
• Experience with HTML5, JavaScript, React, and REST APIs
• Experience bridging native applications with web technologies
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments
• Experience collaborating with UX and Design teams on native Apple platform applications
• Contributions to or ownership of open-source projects
• Experience with consumer display technologies, video workflows, or color calibration technologies is a plus

Portrait Displays Inc. (PDI) is a multinational high-tech company that has been supplying software to major OEM's for more than 25 years. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area (Pleasanton) with branch offices in Seattle, WA and Taiwan, PDI also has presence across Europe, China, Japan, and Korea. PDI offers competitive salary, bonuses, 401(k), a full array of comprehensive benefits including over a dozen options of medical, dental, vision, group life insurances and more. You will have a great opportunity to work at a growing and successful company with real industry influence. The company fosters a collaborative engineering culture that values mentorship, technical growth and sustainable execution. We highly value creativity, adaptability, and work/life balance. At PDI, you will find hard work truly pays off!, Portrait Displays provides color display solutions that combine the latest in color science with advanced display control. Portrait Displays ensures that color presents beautifully on screens of all sizes - for global device manufacturers, content creators, and content distributors. Only Portrait Displays upholds color quality every step of the way, from the creation of the first frame to its appearance on the screen of any device. Portrait Displays' Calman color calibration software is the most popular calibration solution utilized by Hollywood's most respected color professionals. Calman color calibration solutions meet the requirements to deliver a superior viewing experience that is just right. With decades of experience in color science and display technology, Portrait Displays is taking the lead in inventing a more colorful digital future.