Software Engineering Manager, Identity And Access Management

Summary

Join Planet's Identity and Access Management (IAM) team in Slovenia as a Software Engineering Manager. Lead a team of engineers, both junior and senior, mentoring their career paths and contributing to the development of IAM services and web applications. Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and other teams across multiple time zones. This is a full-time, remote position requiring 4+ years of industry experience and 2+ years of management experience in software engineering. The role involves technical contributions (up to 50% of your time) and ownership of service operations. Planet offers a remote-friendly work environment and various benefits.

Requirements

• 4+ years of industry experience, and 2+ years of experience as a manager/supervisor responsible for software engineers
• Experience leading teams to deliver highly available, consistently performant services
• Experience with Java or other similar object oriented language
• Experience with REST APIs, HTTP(S)
• Excellent grasp of relational databases
• Excellent communication skills in English, written and oral
• Experience working in cross-functional teams that put customer requirements first
• Ability to be adaptable and open to changes and challenges

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers, including planning and code reviews
• Take ownership for the overall planning, execution and success of sophisticated technical projects
• Represent your team in cross-functional interactions, such as vetting out product requirements, aligning priorities across various branches of the organisation as well as managing dependencies with other engineering leads
• Think critically about the long-term career development of team members, providing regular performance feedback and mentoring
• Conduct regular check-ins and 1-1s with team members
• Own the operation of services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies
• Contribute technically to projects by being a hands-on coder and technical resource as necessary and removing roadblocks. In this role you may code up to 50% of your time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python
• Experience in authentication technologies such as OAuth and IAM
• Experience building backend services and infrastructure that scales and is easy to evolve

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Remote-friendly work environment
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off