Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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Requirements:

• Proven leadership skills and dedication to increasing the efficiency of engineers while supporting their career goals.
• You have managed software engineers of various skill levels and expertise, from interns to principal engineers, in an evolving and growing company.
• You have effective ways of encouraging professional growth and instilling accountability, and know what it takes to build a customer focused engineering team.
• You understand the technical challenges facing engineers and help them work towards their goals by removing roadblocks and providing coaching.
• You help drive quality, scalability, and reliability into engineering products by developing and improving software development, peer review, and test processes. You identify technical gaps and issues, and potential solutions.
• You can meaningfully support your team in a technical capacity to help them meet commitments. You have direct experience developing and supporting enterprise software, specifically web applications and high performance data processing systems. You have experience working in cloud compute environments such as Amazon Web Services, and understand the value of Infrastructure-as-Code.
• You collaborate passionately with internal partners and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• You effectively present technical information (verbally and written) to a variety of audiences, including executive leadership, technical partners, and customers.
• You have a history of identifying areas of improvement (both technical and organizational), and you develop potential solutions with minimal direction.
• You lead by example, challenge assumptions, and regularly seek feedback on your performance. You know the value of recognizing great work, and also know how to have hard conversations with employees. You embrace the use of technology and process to increase engineering effectiveness and speed to deliver value.
• Ability to be in an on call rotation within the Engineering department.

Responsibilities:

• Recruiting, growing and developing a team of passionate engineers, with growing expectations around individual ownership and impact.
• Support your team through 1:1’s, scheduled team stand-ups and clear, measurable goals at the team and individual level.
• Track and measure your team’s performance - you’ll hold your team accountable to requirements, schedules, and commitments made.
• Build relationships with your team, product management, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services to our external and internal customers.
• Work closely with Engineering leadership to develop, measure, and achieve department-level objectives and key results.
• Shepherd department level initiatives, such as technology evaluations, cost studies, and development/reporting of system-level performance measures and metrics.
• Be an active participant in high-level architecture and design reviews