Senior Manager, Software Engineering

This role will lead a small team of engineers  recognize that strong engineering leadership is fundamental to building high-performing teams. As a hands-on technical leader, you'll play a key role in shaping both the user experience and the engineering culture.

Become familiar with the codebases, architecture, infrastructure, and development workflows. While you typically won’t be in the critical path for delivery, you’re expected to contribute meaningfully to technical discussions and architectural decisions, review code, and understand the tradeoffs your team faces. This fluency is essential to earning trust and effectively guiding the team.

Begin building relationships with your team through one-on-ones and hands-on collaboration. Learn the product s purpose, user base, and how your team’s work fits into the broader platform. Participate in team rituals and begin to assess team strengths and growth areas. You need to bring experience partnering with the business (marketing and product) and serve some in a product owner capacity.

Take ownership of the roadmap and begin identifying opportunities for long-term improvement in architecture, team capabilities, and development practices.

Develop a team culture of shared ownership, open communication, accountability and innovation. Mentor engineers, support their career growth, close skill gaps, and ensure the team can operate with autonomy and clarity.

Continually raise the technical bar through code reviews, architectural improvements, reduced technical debt, and strong engineering practices. Ensure production systems are reliable, maintainable, supportable, and scalable.

Establish predictable delivery, aligning closely with cross-functional partners, and ensure the team consistently ships meaningful outcomes. Own and influence roadmap decisions, advocate for smart trade-offs, and contribute to broader organizational goals.

• Hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade applications with a proven track record of rapid delivery and practical implementation
• Strong technical skills using cloud-based technologies.
• In-depth knowledge of agile methodologies, and best practices to guide and enable the team.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous situations, make informed decisions, and adapt based on feedback.
• Proven ability to balance the benefits and costs of simple versus complex solutions, ensuring outcomes align with project and organizational goals.
• Ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of complex data concepts and project goals.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to make pragmatic technical decisions while growing a culture of continuous improvement and delivery.
• Technical depth and credibility to engage with the team’s work, whether to unblock progress, offer hands-on support, or hold individuals accountable to high engineering standards.

• Proven ability to lead teams in building and maintaining business-critical applications across the stack, including enterprise Next.js and React frontends and Node.js/Type Script services.
• Experience guiding the development of scalable, maintainable, RESTful and Graph
  
  QL services in production environments
• Working knowledge of container-based technologies (Docker, Fargate, Kubernetes, or other)
• Solid understanding of architectural patterns (event-driven, serverless, SOA, and others)
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams designing and operating modern web authentication and authorization systems.
• Knowledge of quality best practices and automated testing tools such as Playwright
• Proven experience leading in an Agile environment
• Strong communication, problem-solving, organization skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to build a high-performing team,…