What You'll Do:
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Manage a team of individual contributors including responsibility for 1:1s, giving regular feedback, performance management and career development conversations
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Empower the team to deliver their very best.
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Facilitate goal-level creation for the broader function and work with other managers to support setting of team level goals.
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Understand the fundamentals of the business and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with the business opportunities.
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Identify and implement enhancements to standards, processes, and tools.
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Evaluate new technology solutions and partnerships to accelerate the engineering and product organization
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Collaborate closely with product management and engineering as equal stakeholders in the product development process.
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Participate in architectural design and coordinate with other software engineering managers as needed for a consistent approach within the suite of applications.
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Consistently strive to improve collaboration and communications.
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Partner with leaders to identify and plan capabilities required to meet customer needs.
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Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to determine priorities and impact.
Skills you have:
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A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience.
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7+ years of experience in a software engineering role including 2+ years of experience leading high performing engineering teams.
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Possess a strong, high-level understanding of modern, cloud-native software development across the entire lifecycle—from mobile frontends to distributed backend microservices. You can confidently guide technical discussions, challenge architectural decisions, and unblock engineers across a diverse stack.
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Ability to oversee cross-platform engineering teams spanning mobile (iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin) backend (Micronaut/Kotlin, PHP, Kafka) and modern web frontends (React, TypeScript, Next.js), supported by a strong foundation in modern enterprise Ops tech stacks including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Elasticsearch.
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Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture rooted in the principles of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx frameworks. You will leverage these metrics to champion developer experience, streamline delivery pipelines, and elevate code quality.
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A passionate advocate and practitioner of Lean and Agile methodologies, dedicated to continuous improvement, eliminating delivery bottlenecks, and empowering teams through autonomous, iterative development.
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Experience mentoring, motivating, and leading a team through successful software projects.
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Experience setting business expectations and scope as well as providing technology. recommendations.
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Experience in both a high-growth startup and growing medium sized company is a plus.
Who you are:
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams about engineering topics such as system architecture, API design, product roadmaps, and resourcing.
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Ability to work with and lead other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.
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Excellent problem solving, issue identification and technical documentation skills.
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Track record of timely delivery of high quality software.
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Passion for mentorship, guidance, and direct person to person interactions that create strong bonds among teams and individuals.
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Ability to care deeply about people and help them become their best selves.
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A love to learn and teach equally well and possess a growth mindset.
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Ability to balance management and individual contributor responsibilities when needed and provide guidance on code reviews or pull requests.