Engineering Manager

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies.

Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, Master Card, Siemens, and T‑Mobile.

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

As an Engineering Manager at Sonar, you will be leading a new squad of 4‑8 developers whose focus is on making Sonar Qube the best tool for Code Quality and Security. You will lead a team focused on providing new features to deliver high‑quality and powerful products and services that help our users write better software.

By joining us you will bring your experience and expertise to help push our product to its next stage of evolution and fulfill the needs of our large user and customer base. You will also help to bring consistency across Sonar’s engineering organization by collaborating closely with your engineering manager peers to foster and share engineering best practices.

• Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success.
• Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard.
• Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly.
• Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy and ensure that the team's work and focus align with this vision.
• Ensure the squad defines clear objectives that are aligned with team, department, and company goals.
• Be accountable for tracking sprint progress.
• Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully.
• Ensure that the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.).
• Partner with the hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
• Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad.
• Lead by example, modeling the behaviors and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership.

• 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, with a strong understanding of software testing.
• Having a developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework.
• Advanced knowledge of the…