Engineering Manager, Ground Software

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a cross-functional squad of front-end, back-end, and full-stack engineers who own a Mosaic product area end-to-end
• Own the squad's delivery, quality, and team health, running sprint rituals that serve the work and protecting the team's ability to focus
• Run effective 1:1s, give timely and specific feedback, and grow engineers along both technical and management career paths
• Stay close enough to the code to earn trust and make informed decisions, contributing directly when the situation calls for it
• Drive the technical roadmap for your product area, including the recurring judgment of whether a new capability belongs in the product or in the shared Mosaic platform layer
• Champion strategic technical investments — testing, observability, internal tooling, debt reduction — and make the case for the engineering time they require
• Partner with the Product Owner as the technical counterpart in defining scope, timelines, and trade-offs
• Coordinate cross-team work with other Ground Software squads on shared APIs, components, and platform capabilities
• Manage the squad's relationship with Space Operations, the Simulation team, DevOps, and other stakeholders through structured channels
• Lead incident response when production issues affect operators, and drive blameless post-mortems that prevent recurrence
• Help define what a product-aligned squad looks like at Mosaic, establishing patterns that will shape future squads as the organization scales

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years building and leading engineering teams that ship production software
• Hands-on technical depth in either modern back-end systems (Elixir/OTP, or comparable concurrent/distributed runtimes such as Erlang, Go, or the JVM) or modern front-end systems (React/TypeScript), with enough working knowledge of the other side of the stack to make informed architectural decisions and lead cross-functional work credibly
• Track record of hiring and developing high-performing engineers in fast-moving environments
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical contribution with people leadership
• Experience leading cross-functional teams or coordinating closely across functional boundaries on shared product outcomes
• Strong understanding of distributed systems integration patterns (gRPC, REST, WebSockets) and API contract design
• Experience establishing or evolving engineering processes — sprint operating models, code review standards, testing strategy, incident response
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and represent engineering's interests to senior leadership
• Eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline
• Direct experience with Elixir/OTP and the Phoenix framework, or with React/TypeScript at scale in production single-page applications
• Experience leading a team through a structural transition — functional to product-aligned, monolith to services, founding team to scaled organization
• Background in aerospace, defense, or other domains with mission-critical reliability requirements, classified work environments (SCIF), or operational software where the cost of a bug is measured in operator decisions
• Experience with real-time data systems, telemetry processing, command and control, or large-scale data visualization (Three.js, WebGL, or similar)
• Familiarity with cleared work environments and how security and accreditation constraints shape engineering workflows
• Active U.S. security clearance at any level