Manaager, Engineering - MakeMusic

Company Overview

Help Shape the Future of Music Creation and Education at Make Music

At Make Music, we believe music has the power to inspire, connect, and transform lives. For over three decades, we've been at the forefront of music technology, building tools that help musicians compose, teach, learn, and perform. Our products are trusted by Grammy-winning composers, world-class educators, and students in classrooms and homes around the globe.

With Make Music Cloud, we've reimagined music practice for the digital age by offering students real-time feedback, access to an extensive repertoire library, and seamless tools for educators to track progress and personalize instruction.

If you're passionate about music, driven by innovation, and eager to create tools that empower musicians and educators around the world, then Make Music is the stage you've been looking for!

We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.

As Manager, Engineering you lead an engineering team within a cross-functional product development team. You are responsible for the successful execution and delivery of functionality to our customers. You manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle including collaborating with the Product Manager on shaping requirements, project planning, ensuring product quality, and customer delivery. You are particularly responsible for driving continuous improvement across the team, through individual performance management, engineering processes, and mentorship of engineers.

You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge and approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You value team members' input from all levels and actively seek ways to support your colleagues.

You will sit directly with the Make Music Practice Architects Team and work in close collaboration with Product and Customer teams, reporting to the VP, Engineering for Music Brands.

• Creating the environment for your team to be successful through setting and communicating clear goals, ensuring strategic alignment with product and business goals, and driving a collaborative execution style within and outside the team
• Hire, train, mentor, and lead software engineers on your team in the pursuit of the team's business goals and engineering excellence
• Manage and support your team's performance through continuous feedback, regular reviews, mentorship, and role evaluation
• Perform annual reviews and recommend promotions and salary adjustments as needed
• Collaborate openly with other functional managers, helping to identify and pursue inter-team opportunities, address conflicts, and resolve dependencies
• Work with leadership and executive management to align on company vision and strategy, communicate status and changes, and ensure your team has all available information to deliver their best work
• Balance short-term and long-term needs for the team, product, and technology roadmaps
• Monitor project and team status through a variety of metrics, continuously communicating to all stakeholders, and optimizing processes for overall team effectiveness
• Help to identify and manage risks: people, business, technology, unknown risks through a variety of risk management techniques
• Work closely with Product Managers to shape new features, coordinate team priorities, and avoid/reduce technical debt across the product platform

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years experience managing and mentoring software engineers in a hybrid/distributed setting
• 5+ years of experience delivering commercial software in a fast-moving SaaS environment
• Recent leadership of technical decisions in a complex software product system, including modern cloud-native architecture (AWS), Restful APIs, and automated full stack software delivery using IaaS principles (Terraform)
• Experience building distributed systems, languages, and tools including C#/.NET, Java script/Typescript, React/NextJS, SQL, Redis, Rabbit
  
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