Manager, Software Engineering - RDC Next

Team Leadership & Talent Scaling

• Direct & Support: Lead and empower a squad of senior, staff, and senior staff backend engineers, fostering an environment of high autonomy, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Career Mentorship & Growth: Provide nuanced coaching tailored to high-level individual contributors. Guide senior engineers toward staff tiers and help staff and senior staff engineers broaden their systemic and organizational influence.
• Agile Execution: Actively remove roadblocks, manage dependencies, and rally the team to deliver high-quality, incremental value using Agile methodologies.

Technical Delivery & Architecture

• Microservice & Feature Excellence: Guide the team to rapidly deliver scalable, operationally excellent product features for the RDC+ search-to-own platform, encompassing user-facing capabilities, core microservices, and data architectures.
• Roadmap Alignment: Partner with engineers, product managers, technical leads, architects, and third party vendors across the organization to define backend roadmaps and maintain the architectural integrity of RDC+ products.
• AI-Native Workflow Governance: Establish team-wide standards for AI-assisted development, ensuring effective utilize of LLMs for velocity while maintaining critical judgment over security and performance.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience & Expertise:
  • 1 to 2+ years of experience directly leading and managing software engineering teams within a fast-moving technology organization.
  • 6+ years of overall hands-on professional backend software engineering experience, with a proven track record of developing highly performant distributed systems.
  • Demonstrated experience managing or leading senior and staff-level technical talent, with a proven capability to influence and earn the trust of high-level engineers without micromanaging.
  • Deep understanding of modern backend architectures, microservices design patterns, relational and non-relational databases (such as Postgres or MySQL), and AWS cloud platforms.
• Technical Skills:
  • Core Language Stack: Proven technical depth in one or more of our target backend languages: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, or Java.
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Advanced understanding of AWS ecosystems and modern distributed backend architectures.
  • AI Literacy: Practical experience or passion for integrating AI-native workflows (such as Copilot or Cursor) into the SDLC ethically and securely to optimize developer efficiency.
  • Methodologies: Strong grounding in Agile execution, CI/CD pipelines, and data-driven delivery metrics.
• Professional Qualities:
  • Nuanced Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Architecture) on a shared engineering roadmap.
  • Outcome-Driven Focus: A results-oriented mindset centered on rapidly shipping high-quality code, measuring success, and iteratively optimizing platform performance.
  • Mission Alignment: Ability to connect the technical work of the team back to core business goals and user trust, reflecting the principles found in our Tech RealValues.

Benefits

• Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
• Family forming benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Time Off
• 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
• Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
• Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
• 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
• Free snacks and refreshments in each office location