Sr. Manager, Engineering

Your Title: Software Engineering Management
Job Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Our Department: Transportation

Are you a leader who is capable of digging deep to solve technical problems?

Do you want to lead and mentor a team of software engineers and testers?

About Trimble Transportation

Trimble Transportation optimizes the movement of freight by providing shippers and carriers with in-cab and office software to run their businesses more efficiently. As the leading provider of Transportation, fleet and asset management software and commercial routing and mapping solutions, we are devoted to propelling companies in the trucking industry toward increased efficiency, lower costs, and optimized operations. Trimble Transportation’s Enterprise division markets and develops transportation supply chain planning, procurement, and execution software solutions delivered as multiple point products and cloud-enabled solutions at various stages of maturity.

What You Will Do
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager for our cloud platform. This role requires a leader who is capable of digging deep to solve technical problems, and who is likewise capable of thoughtfully leading and mentoring a team of about 10 software engineers, and testers.

Senior Engineering Managers at Trimble Transportation are both empowered and accountable to ensure that the outcomes for their products meet the high standards set by our customers. This includes ownership for product quality, architecture, communication with customers, and systems monitoring.

Leaders on our team are required to insist on increasingly high standards. An essential part of this role is driving your team to meet higher standards on product quality, development cost, system performance, security, scalability, and time to market.

Responsibilities

• Leading design during all phases of development and deployment
• Focus on improving product performance and reliability
  Finding areas where developers can grow their skill set, such that they become both more capable in their careers long term and immediately more productive/efficient as engineers
• Coordinating across internal teams to solve end to end problems as an organization
• Delighting our customers with high quality software releases
• Ensuring that problems are prevented or solved, not merely managed
• Ensuring that communication with stakeholders reliable/accurate/timely
• Migrating functionality to the cloud, and away from on-prem systems, whenever possible
• Aggressively building out monitoring and alerting to ensure product quality is always strong
• Over time, finding the best role for everyone on the team, based on their abilities, interests, and business needs

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience as a software developer
• 10+ total years of experience building and releasing enterprise software
• 5+ years of managing software engineers
• Ability to perform code reviews
• Detailed understanding of distributed systems architecture
• Understanding of Azure Cloud Services or other cloud platforms
• Working knowledge of SQL
• Experience managing remote developers
• Experience with languages such as C# and JavaScript

About Trimble

Dedicated to the world’s tomorrow, Trimble is a technology company delivering solutions that enable our customers to work in new ways to measure, build, grow and move goods for a better quality of life. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics connect the digital and physical worlds to improve productivity, quality, safety, transparency and sustainability. From purpose-built products and enterprise lifecycle solutions to industry cloud services, Trimble is transforming critical industries such as construction, geospatial, agriculture and transportation to power an interconnected world of work. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com

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