Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Tessitura as a Software Engineering Manager in the Innovation department, leading and mentoring a team of engineers. You will be responsible for managing team performance, hiring, training, and conducting annual reviews. The role involves fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, working with product owners and stakeholders to deliver software projects. You will manage HR aspects of the team and maintain an ongoing team knowledge-building program. This remote position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• People management experience
• 7+ years working as a Software Engineer on a team of Software Engineers, working in a shared code environment that ships code to users at least once per month
• 3+ years building and shipping software to commercial cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services
• Experience communicating and working with Product Owners, Business Analysts and stakeholders to break down and deliver software projects
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment systems
• Experience measuring team effectiveness and performance
• A passion for building strong, high-performing teams
• An open, curious, and growth-oriented mindset

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of engineers
• Maintain regular 1:1 check-ins with direct reports
• Participate in hiring and training of new team members
• Conduct annual reviews with team members
• Code pairing with team members
• Communicate engineering objectives and information to the team
• Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership and empowerment within the engineering team by leading with the Tessitura Engineering Foundations as a standard
• Identify opportunities for growth and provide regular feedback to team members
• Manage HR aspects of a team, including but not limited to vacation requests, compensation communication, and collecting and acting on feedback about work environment
• Maintain an ongoing team knowledge-building program that includes professional development on relevant new technology, existing components and technology being used by the team, and secure software practices
• Work with Engineering Leadership team to define and measure team performance and effectiveness indicators for the Engineering team
• Collaborate with Engineers, Product Owners, or other stakeholders to plan, prioritize and deconstruct software development tasks; resulting in the optimum workflow
• Work with engineering leadership to organize and deploy engineers to best accomplish the objectives of the engineering team
• Possess thoughtful and clear communication skills
• Become well-versed in Tessitura domain knowledge of our members and platform
• Work with engineering leadership to translate company objectives in to Engineering team objectives
• Exemplify, embed and reinforce the connection between the Company’s values, people, and organizational performance, taking personal accountability for individual, departmental and organizational performance
• As a term of employment, the post holder may be required to undertake such other duties and / or times of work as may be reasonably be required commensurate with the general level of responsibility within the Company

Preferred Qualifications

• At least a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Experience managing direct reports
• Experience with .NET technology and C#
• Experience with web front-end frameworks like Angular
• Experience running .NET workloads over Linux
• Cloud-native mindset, including aspects of performance, reliability, scalability, resilience
• Experience working in a distributed office environment

Benefits

• Various medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• A 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off, including vacation and sick leave
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• A 7-week sabbatical after seven years of service
• A recharge week between Christmas and New Year’s