Software Engineering Manager

Job Details

Business Unit:
Cubic Transportation Systems

Summary:

Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering for ITS, the Software Engineering Manager is accountable for the end‑to‑end engineering leadership of the Synchro Studio and SPM product lines. This role serves as a people manager and technical leader, responsible for shaping engineering strategy, ensuring product quality, and delivering on‑time and within budget commitments.

• Lead the engineering teams for Synchro Studio and SPM, including technical leads, software engineers, and cross‑functional contributors.
• Contribute to budget planning, staffing plans, and resource allocation across product teams.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet committed timelines, quality expectations, and scope objectives.
• Set and maintain the technical vision for Synchro Studio and SPM, ensuring alignment with the ITS platform strategy.
• Oversee architectural decisions, technical designs, and engineering patterns across both product lines.
• Provide technical oversight and ensure solutions meet scalability, quality, security, and maintainability standards.
• Partner closely with Product Management to plan roadmaps, define scope, and translate product goals into actionable engineering work.
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, agile development processes, and quality standards.
• Establish consistent sprint ceremonies, reporting expectations, and performance metrics across all teams.
• Coordinate with UX/UI, QA, Dev Ops, and Platform Engineering to ensure consistency and alignment across the product ecosystem.
• Conduct routine performance evaluations, provide coaching and feedback, and support long‑term career development.
• Communicate engineering progress, risks, and trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Represent Synchro Studio and SPM engineering in planning discussions, steering committees, and cross‑organizational forums.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time leading teams in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated success managing engineering managers or technical leads.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), distributed architectures, and scalable enterprise applications.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate across both technical and non‑technical groups.
• Experience coordinating global teams or third‑party engineering partners is a plus.

Cubic Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Workforce benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; company‑paid disability and other insurances; a flexible spending account; a pre‑paid legal plan; travel accident insurance; a lifestyle spending account; paid parental leave; a 401(k) retirement plan with company match; backup childcare; pet care; and tuition reimbursement. Flexible time‑off arrangements, a 9/80 schedule at many locations, and paid holidays are also provided. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action‑Employer and are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law.