Manager, Software Engineering
Role details
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Job description
- Lead a portfolio of diverse technology projects and a team of software engineers with deep experience in event driven cloud native services, and full stack systems to create solutions that help meet the needs of business and customers
- Collaborate with product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions
- Make decisions on the design, architecture, and delivery of systems
- Build teams and be an active coach and mentor to your team and grow them in their careers
- Drive agile development and analytical methodologies every day
- Strive to continuously improve the operations, processes, methodologies, technology choices, and practices of the team
- Interact with your team, customers, and peers to share information and improve cross-department processes
- Strive for transparency and partnership between our engineers and our business partners
- Engage in concept discussions, and proposed technology solutions, to meet business objectives and influence such decisions
- Ensure all work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards needed for organizational success
- Be a champion of the YBIYRI ethos (you-build-it-you-run-it), which includes participating in their on-call pager rotation., * Mentor engineers, helping them grow into technical leadership roles
- Break down complex, ambiguous problems into actionable work that distributes effectively across the team
- Champion engineering best practices including observability, incident response, and production excellence
- Share your enthusiasm for tech trends, explore and learn new technologies
Cross-Functional Impact:
- Partner with Product and Customer Success teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Collaborate across distributed teams (Ireland, U.S., Philippines, Australia) to drive alignment on technical approaches
- Influence product roadmap by identifying technical opportunities that create competitive advantages
- Bridge the gap between technical implementation and business value, helping the team prioritize high-impact work
Maximize Agility:
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development lifecycle that slow down the entire team
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer experience and productivity
- Lead post-mortems and blameless retrospectives that turn incidents into learning opportunities
Ownership & Accountability:
- Own critical systems end-to-end, from design through production support
- Take responsibility for production reliability and proactively prevent incidents
- Step into ambiguous situations and drive them to resolution without needing explicit direction
- Make tough technical trade-off decisions and clearly communicate the reasoning, * The opportunity to build in a fast-paced start-up environment with experienced industry leaders
- A learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact. A professional development budget to support other modes of learning.
- Thrive in an environment where no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, origin, or culture they identify with, every employee is a respected, valued, and empowered part of the team.
- In-office collaboration for moments that matter is important to our culture, and we give managers and teams the flexibility to decide which 10+ days a month they come in.
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting - business updates and ask me anything style discussion with our Leadership Team
- We come together for moments that matter which include team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours and more!
Requirements
- A leader, first and foremost
- An influential and effective communicator
- Highly skilled at developing people, building high impact teams, and attracting top talent
- Strong proficiency with the software development lifecycle and engineering excellence processes, Agile methodologies, along with skills in leading moderately sized projects
- Technical savvy, allowing you to guide complex technical discussions, weighing the tradeoffs, and advocate for sound decisions
- A skilled operator of Agile practices and data driven methodologies
- Ideally, possess deep knowledge and experience with Microsoft languages/frameworks (C#/.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework)
- Expertise with Azure (Function Apps, Service Bus, etc...) a bonus
Benefits & conditions
For positions that will be based in NY, the annual salary range for this position is below. Actual salaries may vary based on numerous factors including, among other things, an individual applicant's experience and qualifications for the position. This range does not include equity or additional compensation, such as bonuses or commissions.
NY Annual Base Salary Range
$196,000-$240,000 USD, * Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits that cover physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
Take Care of Yourself
- R&R days so you can rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy - work with your manager to take time off when you need it
- Industry-leading parental leave policies. Family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events
Benefits listed above are for full-time employees.
Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.
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