Software Engineering Manager

***** This opportunity is a direct hire for one of our clients. This role is fully a remote position. U.S. work authorization is required; no sponsorship is available.*****

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead and oversee the strategic and operational direction of the Software Engineering and QA team. Our ideal candidate is an experienced engineer able to guide how we build products, systems, and teams leading a diverse group of individuals across engineering, DevOps and cloud infrastructure supporting a SaaS digital marketing platform.

Responsibilities

• You lead by example and are willing to work alongside the platforming teams to effect positive change for our platforms

• You can guide discussions and balance pros/cons without knowing all the details with a bias to action

• You are excited to contribute to our culture of iterative development, team collaboration and our fun, positive, professional, remote-first work environment

• This role manages the Admin team focused on authentication, users, tenancy, subscriptions, and roles

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing web-based, cloud-hosted software in a team environment

• Experience leading cross-functional, self-enabled team(s) and managing production systems

• Strong understanding of cloud environments and site reliability (Amazon AWS, DataDog) as well as DevOps principles and systems (CI/CD, Github, Jenkins)

• Experience improving the SDLC of teams to make them more efficient and effective

• Experience with networking and security and multiple coding languages (C#, Node JS, SQL, React) as well as knowledge of platform architecture

• Frontend exposure (React, Angular, or similar)

• Passion for coaching and mentoring and willingness to lead teams through ongoing AI-driven change

• Strong people leadership and communication skills

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently

Nice to Have Experience

• AWS experience (Azure acceptable with willingness to learn AWS)

• Multi-tenant SaaS platform experience

• Experience managing both engineering and QA

• Prior hiring or team growth experience

Our Vetting Process

At Emergent Staffing, we work hard to find the best of the best for our clients. If you think you’re one of those, please understand that the effort put into this by people like yourself helps us be successful in surrounding you with other top-notch engineers. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position: