You’re an experienced Software Engineering Manager with some deep technical experience on backend services, datastores and APIs in your past. You want your teams to build robust and reliable backend services software, tools, and APIs to set the bar for quality across the organization. You know that each team is itself a system, and the best way to optimize it is by working excellently with people while also understanding the technology. You know how to find, hire and retain top talent to build complex and advanced SaaS software while coaching them on their performance and engagement with their team. 

You will lead and support 1–2 software development scrum teams of engineers delivering and supporting software that underpins many other engineering teams at the company. You will have many internal stakeholders (Engineering, Product Management, DevOps, Quality), and effectively collaborating with all of them to create feasible roadmaps will be paramount for this role. You should form opinions about what the team should do based on careful and active listening to your team members and your stakeholders. Then your teams will deliver software and hit goals for the company; consistently and with style. 

What You’ll Make Happen:  

• Listen to what your team needs to deliver better software, then proactively do those things. 

• Partner with Product Management to ensure your teams have clear tactical and strategic backlogs. 

• Balance competing priorities to ensure we effectively ship new features while resolving defects and managing technical debt. 

• Recruit, coach, develop, and motivate high performing engineers across multiple teams. 

• Proactively seek to listen and find alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by understanding your teams’ technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions that solve multiple strategic challenges at once. 

You Get Excited By:  

• Your team achieving real business results and incremental milestones 

• Delighting our customers and end users 

• Coaching and developing engineers on your team along their chosen career paths 

• Using data to objectively measure impact and optimize engineering processes 

• Meeting deadlines and coordinating with technical team members in order to deliver quality results 

• Attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software 

Role Requirements: 

• 3+ years in an Engineering Management role, preferably working on a SaaS product 

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer 

• Deep knowledge of agile processes and workflows 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status