Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Deputy, a global SaaS workforce management company, as a Software Engineering Manager! Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will lead and mentor a team of engineers, driving innovation and scalability. You'll be deeply involved in technical decision-making, roadmap planning, and fostering a high-performing engineering culture. This highly technical role requires 2+ years of software engineering management experience, strong technical acumen, and a passion for technology. You'll be responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and developing a world-class engineering team. Deputy offers a competitive salary and a collaborative, inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• 2+ years of software engineering management experience building productive, high-functioning teams
• Ability to describe why these teams were high-functioning and what you specifically did to ensure engineers felt productive
• Technical acumen. Ability to converse deeply with engineers and technical executives
• Experience in a fast-growing scale-up environment, with a bias to innovation and growth
• Growth mindset
• Humbitious
• High agency mindset
• Passion for technology
• Experience building distributed web-based cloud-native applications and services
• Experience in various cloud computing/architecture - AWS with Multi-region, multi-tenant experience
• Experience in deploying highly scalable systems with various techniques and design patterns
• Experience in the operations of large multi-tenant storage deployments (we use MySQL & various no-SQL)
• Experience in system architecture patterns like SOA, micro-services, EDA (event-driven architecture)
• Experience in key cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes (EKS), containerisation, Kafka, etc
• Programming Languages - PHP, Golang, Terraform, Python

Responsibilities

• Develop an intimate understanding of the underlying technical architecture and contribute to the future direction of the platform
• Co-create the technical vision, strategy, and technical roadmap planning and product definition for your team, alongside your technical leads and PM/product designer
• Become intimately familiar with our product, languages, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture, and decisions
• Guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company
• Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs
• Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions
• Drive the scalability and reliability of your squads offering as we grow
• Keep your pulse on the craft: writing architecture designs, working with infrastructure and quality on tooling for your team, and/or exploring POCs
• Mentor, develop, and guide a team of software engineers so they can do their best work
• Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team
• Own the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community
• Guide the team to building innovative, elegant solutions by balancing trade-offs with the best interests of the company
• Guide the team on important architectural and long-term engineering decisions, as well as shorter-term tradeoffs
• Stay technical to provide meaningful guidance on engineering decisions
• Provide one on one feedback, career advice and coaching for your team members
• Communicate openly and be the voice of the business within your team, keeping them informed of and working towards the business vision & goals
• Lead the recruiting of new engineers within your team as we grow and build a world-class, sustainable and diverse engineering team
• Mentor team members to create a highly motivated, coherent, and cohesive culture which rewards high performance
• Own the Engineering Team Engagement score (quarterly measure of team engagement), by building upon our interactive, learning-oriented engineering community
• Become intimately familiar with our product, systems, and our tech stack to drive decisions about frameworks, architecture and decisions
• Drive adoption of best practices and best in class technology, design best practices, enforce principles of work
• Remove single point of failures by cross-skilling staff and making sensible, strategic resourcing decisions
• Experience with working on legacy codebase and migrating to newer architecture including data migration
• Developing subject matter technical expert in the domain you own
• Responsible for the technical decision making and architecture across portfolio of squads
• Accountability for 2-3 OKRs aligned to Company goals
• Can clearly design and communicate a technical roadmap to the organisation with proof of value

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a multi-tenant SaaS org

Benefits

• $140,000 - $157,500 a year
• Potential incentive programs, such as individual or organizational performance bonuses
• #LI-Remote