Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a senior level technical and people leader responsible for influencing the strategic technical direction, core processes and directly managing a team of 8+ deeply technical engineers to ensure our digital offerings empower the Great Minds mission. You will influence and oversee big picture system decisions while also being a hands-on leader who works alongside our lean team to solve complex technical challenges.

You will effectively communicate the vision and plans to a wide variety of people including your team, internal stakeholders, and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Influence overall solutions strategy and ensure the team is building great products through continuous review and feedback and in collaboration with Product partners.
• Collaborate with other senior technical leaders and software engineers to continuously improve engineering practices and software architecture.
• Manage a team of software engineers through one-on-ones, code and documentation review, and performance reviews.
• Align software engineers to work that ensures quality delivery, engineer engagement, and overall management of platform knowledge across the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience as an individual contributor software engineer
• 3+ years experience as an engineering manager
• Expertise designing and operating software in a cloud-native application environment (AWS preferred)
• Ability to code application prototypes and reference architecture using one or more of the following languages/ frameworks (or comparable);
  NodeJS/ Type Script, React, Python.
• Ability to effectively communicate application architecture (written and oral) to multiple audiences, including product, business, and software engineers.
• Ability to coach and mentor five to ten software engineers through one-on-ones, performance reviews, and other forms of feedback.
• Ability to manage the work of five to ten software engineers through giving them assignments that allows growth and the right level of support at the same time.
• Sense of intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning with a strong problem-solving mindset.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $147,000-$164,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

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Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization's commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.