Manager, Software Engineering

Are you ready to own something big? Automox is turning IT admins into IT heroes by replacing traditional tools with our award winning cloud-native endpoint management platform. Our product works autonomously and so do our teams. We value a ‘one team’ mentality where everyone’s unique skills contribute to an environment that encourages collaboration and ownership. At Automox you’re enabled to do your best work, grow your career, and have an impact that will be noticeable. WE ARE A_TOMOX… all that’s missing is U! 

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple agile teams in delivering features, bugfixes, and components that make Automox the competitive advantage!   In this role you will have the opportunity to lead development efforts for brand new as well as existing services and applications, launch them, operate them, and continue to develop them. You are the leader of several engineering initiatives, driving success through your direct reports and business partners. You will manage cross-functional teams of software engineers. You have a passion for coaching and mentoring to help individuals grow and provide a great product experience, always looking for new opportunities to improve.

You will:

• Drive transformation by working side-by-side and in the trenches with multiple engineering teams - coaching, facilitating, and clearing the path for results
• Contribute to and help define key roadmap initiatives as a part of our release planning efforts
• Ensure your team understands the R&D priorities and helps other teams achieve them when necessary
• Lead and drive the end-to-end delivery of features, services and applications including design, development, while collaborating with peers on testing and release
• Ensure a high level of technical quality by collaborating on technology standards and architectural principles
• Actively work alongside internal stakeholders to manage and prioritize engineering initiatives,  infrastructure changes, maintenance, and new feature requests.  Actively encourage and support your team to collaborate and work across management and organizational boundaries to achieve goals
• Work with program management to track delivery and roll-up of project milestones and performance metrics for status reporting and continuous improvement
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and motivation to the team by ensuring they receive mentorship, regular 1:1’s, and quarterly reviews from you and key technical leaders inside the company
• Establish and refine effective agile practices that drive results and create an environment of empowerment and ownership.  
• Promote best practices in software development, testing, and deployment of SaaS applications and platform services. You Build it, You Run it.
• Building team morale, foster behavior that promotes collaboration, learning, and positivity
• Identify and help resolve conflicts on your team or with other teams
• Establish monitoring & operation of production services that promote quality and uptime

 

 

BACKGROUND & SKILLS REQUIRED

• 7+ years of hands-on software development 
• 3+ years of people leadership experience with SaaS software engineering teams
• Experience working with cross-functional teams like product, design, and other engineering leads
• Preferred fluency in programming language(s): Go, Java, Vue.js, Typescript
• Bonus points for experience with infrastructure, microservices, high-scale applications
• Experience establishing CI/CD and devops practices
• Experience providing hands-on coaching to engineers that drives noticeable changes and results
• Experience using DORA metrics to gauge performance
• Passion for promoting good engineering practices and high quality standards
• Proven track record of launching and scaling new cloud native and web applications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent work experience
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment across multiple locations and time zones

The salary range listed is the base pay range for this position. In addition, the total compensation package includes bonus, equity and benefits. Actual earnings may be less or more depending on a candidate's direct experience, skills, industry knowledge, and location.

Compensation$170,000—$200,000 USD

LOCATION

We are a fully distributed company of remote employees.

***Note: We currently don't hire in California or New York metro***

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