Engineering Manager, Materia

Engineering Manager, Materia

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team. This individual will manage and provide technical support to a technical engineering team across multiple initiatives and develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle. This role also may manage budget for projects, programs or products within the practice.

In this opportunity as Engineering Manager, you will:

• Develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the organization’s goals, preparing the team for scalable growth.
• Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams.
• Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling.
• Facilitate strategic partnerships with cross‑functional leaders to ensure technology solutions meet broader business objectives.
• Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also managing technical debt effectively.
• Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements.
• Hiring and manage a team of skilled software developers.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure smooth project execution.
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team.

Other responsibilities include:

• Influencing and articulates a vision for customers and product(s).
• Socializing and aligns a wide variety of cross‑functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap.
• Leading through influence to drive results across multiple, cross‑functional teams.

• Demonstrating people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams.
• Ensuring team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s.
• Setting goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrates progress.

• Leading multiple cross‑functional – project teams.
• Balanced strategic and tactical focus.
• Excellent cross‑functional influencer.

• Evaluating new technologies and participates in decision‑making, accounting for several factors.
• Applying knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.
• Managing building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.

• Displaying understanding of the project’s value proposition for the customer.
• Applying critical, non‑biased and data‑based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future.
• Ranking the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally “important” and “urgent”, and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• 3+ years in a people leadership & product development leadership role.
• Ability to elaborate on/demonstrate experience bringing in transformations within process improvement and team development.
• Ability to identify and implement new technologies to improve upon product.
• Experience performing software development with Python development stack.
• Experience performing software development AWS cloud development stack.
• Experience with an Agile development process is required.
• Experience performing software development with one of the following front‑end technologies is preferred but not required:
  React / Type Script / Tailwind.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to foster an environment of collaboration and innovation.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organizational development, and team scaling.

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid…