Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Remote)

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Requirements:

• Demonstrated history of technical leadership across both people and systems
• Leading Staff+ engineers
• Leading multiple teams
• Demonstrated history of strong partnerships with product, stakeholders, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful results for an organization
• Demonstrated history of growing individual contributors and leaders

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop ICs and Engineering Managers, ensuring teams have clear growth paths, strong leadership, and alignment with business needs.
• Structure and organize teams effectively, optimizing staffing, skill distribution, and capacity planning to meet company priorities.
• Actively shape engineering culture, championing continuous improvement, diversity, and technical excellence across teams.
• Foster a culture of urgency and strategic prioritization, ensuring engineering efforts align with business goals and long-term vision.
• Create contingency plans and adapt to shifting business needs, guiding teams through change and uncertainty with clarity and confidence.
• Work across teams and pillars to drive multi-team objectives, ensuring clarity in planning and fostering collaboration between engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Influence Guild-wide initiatives, working with executive leadership to shape organizational engineering strategy and cross-functional decision-making.
• Represent engineering in high-level discussions, serving as a proxy for the Director of Engineering in key collaborations with business stakeholders.
• Build and strengthen relationships across the organization to foster a collaborative environment for addressing complex, multi-disciplinary challenges
• Meet with external partners and vendors to evaluate new technologies and ensure strategic integration into Guild’s platform.
• Oversee multiple engineering domains, driving cross-team initiatives, scalability improvements, and major technical investments.
• Partner with leadership to define technical and product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals while balancing innovation and operational efficiency.