Software Engineering Manager III - Missoula

ABOUT onX

As a pioneer in digital outdoor navigation with a suite of apps, onX was founded in Montana. Our mission is to awaken the adventurer inside everyone. With more than 400 employees located around the country in remote/hybrid roles, we have regional “Basecamps” to help remote employees connect and stay inspired. We bring our outdoor passion to work every day, coupling it with industry-leading technology to craft dynamic outdoor experiences.

Through multiple years of growth, we maintain an entrepreneurial ethos. We offer a fast-paced, growing, tech-forward environment where ownership, accountability, and teamwork are essential. We value diversity and believe it leads to different perspectives and inspiration for both new adventures and growth. We’re hungry to improve, value innovation, and believe great ideas come from any direction.

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onX is seeking a talented Software Engineering Manager III to lead a cross-functional team of engineers and shape the consumer experiences that power our off-pavement mobile apps. This role offers the opportunity to join a dynamic growth company, impact the business, and work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure our mobile properties leverage our extensive off-pavement data. This position reports to the Director of our Engineering team.

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

Go, Elixir, Rust, Python, Swift, Kotlin, JavaScript, Java, Git / Git Hub, Google Cloud Build, Travis CI, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, PostGIS, Linux, Google Cloud Platform, and many open source mapping tools.

• Make great engineers better. Support teammates with individual goal-setting, professional development, and mentoring.
• Make great software. Lead the team to deliver maintainable, high-quality, customer-focused products. Oversee design, development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Build great teams. Hire talented engineers and managers across iOS, Android, web, and backend. Interview and evaluate manager candidates as part of broader hiring.
• Collaborate. Manage dependencies between teams and facilitate collaboration to deliver a cohesive customer experience with Product, Product Design, and stakeholders.
• Leadership. Drive projects, provide technical thought partnership, shape architectural direction, and guide innovation for rapid experimentation when needed.
• Translate. Convert business strategy and customer insights into engineering direction and connect work to onX’s goals.
• Communicate. Over-communicate to align teams, set ambitious yet attainable goals, and coordinate with other teams to move the company forward.

• At least five (5) years of experience directly managing software engineers.
• Proven ability to lead multi-platform teams (iOS, Android, Web, Backend) delivering customer-facing products at scale.
• Track record of delivering solutions that enable product and engineering teams.
• Experience leading teams through ambiguous, fast-changing product stages and bringing structure and clarity without slowing pace.
• Improved engineering velocity, quality, and observability; comfortable with workflows, processes, and metrics.
• Ability to connect engineering work to business goals and balance customer value, quality, and impact.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted tools to improve productivity, code quality, and velocity; ability to help teams adopt them effectively.
• Strong communication with executives and non-technical leaders.
• Solid computer science foundation.
• A collaborative, friendly, and engaging approach to working with other engineers.
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments and across different product life cycles.

Not required, but beneficial candidates may have:

• Familiarity with mapping or navigation technologies.
• Experience designing or leading complex client or server-side architectures for high-volume consumer-facing products, and experience with distributed systems, APIs, or platform components supporting large-scale B2C…