Software Engineering Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an agile Scrum team delivering core capabilities for a cloud-based digital construction platform serving global Utilities and Energy customers, with a strong customer-centric focus on reliability, data accuracy, and real-time visibility.
• Take full accountability for team outcomes, including delivery commitments, technical quality, operational health, and alignment with product and business priorities.
• Serve as a people manager, supporting hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance feedback, and career development for engineers on the team.
• Foster an authentic, inclusive, and psychologically safe team culture where engineers feel supported, challenged, and empowered to do their best work.
• Own end-to-end development and operations of mission-critical microservices, ensuring the team meets high standards for code quality, security, performance, and production readiness.
• Partner closely with Product Managers to translate business and customer needs into clear technical plans, realistic delivery timelines, and well-scoped backlog priorities.
• Drive API design and implementation, setting standards for scalability, documentation, versioning, and integration to support internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with QA, DevOps/SRE, and other engineering leaders to improve agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and operational processes.
• Act as a delivery leader, proactively identifying risks, managing dependencies, communicating progress, and ensuring transparency with stakeholders.
• Support operational excellence through monitoring, incident response, and post-incident learning, reinforcing a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Remain hands-on when needed by reviewing designs and code, mentoring through technical challenges, and modeling strong engineering and leadership practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of experience leading or managing software engineering teams, with demonstrated success in coaching, motivating, and influencing others without relying on authority.
• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience using object-oriented programming principles.
• Proven ability to balance people management, delivery management, and technical leadership in fast-paced, agile environments.
• Strong experience designing, building, and supporting microservices and APIs in production systems.
• Experience with relational databases, including data modeling and performance optimization.
• Practical experience with Docker, including containers, images, and Docker Compose.
• Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• High self-motivation and the ability to lead with authenticity, accountability, and empathy.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience building and supporting Cloud or SaaS products, ideally within Utilities, Energy, or other infrastructure-focused industries.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as ECS, S3, and EC2.
• Experience with modern build and deployment tools, including Jenkins and Kubernetes.
• Experience leading teams through growth, change, or scaling in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Proficiency with Python and/or Node.js.
• Demonstrated ability to introduce innovative engineering or management practices that improve scalability, reliability, team health, or developer productivity.