Senior Software Engineering Manager

Your role in the team

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team building distributed, cloud-native services.
• Drive software architecture and development practices across multiple projects and services.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, QA, and cross-functional teams to define priorities and deliver high-impact features.
• Ensure that the architecture and design of solutions align with long-term business and technical goals.
• Foster a positive, inclusive, and technically rigorous team culture.
• Review and contribute to software design documents to meet evolving product requirements.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance where needed and ensure best practices in coding, testing, and operations.
• Manage a blended team of full-time engineers and contractors, ensuring alignment on quality, timelines, and delivery standards.
• Comfortable stepping into well-established engineering teams, learning their history, culture, and systems to align with ongoing goals and processes and bring in new fresh perspective
• Proven success in building scalable, secure, and highly available systems.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture and infrastructure (preferably AWS/GCP).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design patterns and system architecture principles.
• Ability to work in a team and willingness for an open feedback culture
• Strong communication skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in cloud software development
• Experience of leading a software development team of 5+ Engineers
• Experience designing APIs
• Experience with event-based distributed applications