Senior Manager, Engineering

Summary

Join Splice as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead a distributed team responsible for core platform services. You will collaborate with stakeholders, define team outcomes, and establish efficient processes. This role requires proven technical leadership, strong communication skills, and experience with agile methodologies. You will mentor engineers, shape technical strategy, and champion high-availability services. The position offers a competitive salary and a remote work environment.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in technical leadership within a cross-functional and distributed team environment
• Outstanding communication, organizational skills, and a user-centric mindset
• Experience implementing agile methodologies, particularly Kanban and/or Lean
• Technical competency in API design, go, Java/TypeScript, GraphQL, OAuth, database design and query optimization, and performance
• Experience leading teams building platform-level capabilities to enable SaaS applications
• Proficient in strategy planning and stakeholder management
• Demonstrated expertise in guiding senior engineers and identifying growth avenues for their continuing development
• Proven track record of mentoring and coaching early-career engineers in both personal development and business impact

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow the engineering team responsible for core platform services
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive a culture of empowered teams, fostering ownership, collaboration, and initiative across the organization
• Define clear outcomes for the team and lead them in achieving those goals
• Establish and maintain efficient processes to facilitate the team's productivity
• Stay current on the latest technologies, preferred practices, and industry trends in software development
• Provide mentorship and guidance to early-career managers and engineers to support their technical and professional growth
• Collaborate with senior and staff engineers to shape technical strategy and secure buy-in across the organization
• Foster a culture of innovation, feedback, and continual learning
• Champion and advocate for high availability services, code quality, and scalability to ensure high standards across projects
• Show curiosity about our customer outcomes and our business, identifying higher-level insights and opportunities across departments to elevate Splice to the next level of performance and growth

Benefits

• The national pay range for this role is $180,000 - $250,000. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience
• Splice is an Equal Opportunity Employer
• Splice provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws
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