Software Engineering Manager - Authorship

About Us
Opentrons Labworks, Inc. is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Opentrons Labworks is the parent company to business units Opentrons Robotics and Neochromosome. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating R&D operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. Through Neochromosome, biopharma and biotech at large can benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions.

If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, come join us! We provide excellent benefits, competitive compensation, equity packages, and opportunities for growth. Learn more on our Careers Website.

About the Role
The software team is responsible for the software, firmware, and embedded operating system that powers our robotic liquid handling platform and peripherals. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager that will lead engineers responsible for enhancing and maintaining the user-facing applications that empower our users. An Engineering Manager at Opentrons is expected to guide their team of direct reports and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver customer-driven outcomes.

In addition to delivery and technical responsibilities, the Engineering Manager will also be responsible for guiding and developing engineers on their team through regular 1:1s, performance management and career growth planning. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of empowering people and delivering customer value. They have strong opinions (loosely held) about architecting reliable, flexible, and performant systems in both offline and cloud environments.

This is an onsite role based at our New York City headquarters (Innloabs in LIC). The Software Engineering Manager reports directly to the CTO of Opentrons.

What You Will Do

• Develop and execute technical project plans to enable new capabilities on cross-functional feature teams
• Collaborate with engineering, product management and design teams to deliver features on a predictable schedule
• Participate in architecture conversations with the team to ensure that our designs are scalable, maintainable and flexible
• Advocate for engineering-driven initiatives into project prioritization, while articulating complex concepts to non-developers
• Manage, mentor, coach, and grow an exceptional team of software engineers

Who We Are Looking For
Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ years of engineering management.  Should be extremely comfortable overseeing a team of engineers; assigning and reviewing work.
• Experience hiring and training engineers.
• 6+ years experience of writing code for customer-facing products.
• Experience with React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node, and Python.
• Strong software engineering skills and fundamentals.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience guiding teams to create well-tested, resilient applications.
• Interest in biology and an eagerness to learn.

 Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with C/C++, embedded systems, embedded Linux (Open Embedded).
• Contributions or active maintenance of open-source software.
• Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines on cloud environments.
• Experience with robotics and an eagerness to learn.
• Experience project planning and setting timelines.

 Working Conditions and Physical Effort 

• Work is performed in a typical interior/office work environment
• Periodic travel to business shows or customer sites
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Limited physical effort required