Software Engineering Manager
Software Engineering Manager
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$ 164000 - 200000
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Job Description
Software Engineering Manager
Who we are
Jellyvision ALEX is on a mission to improve lives by helping people choose and use their benefits. We are raising the barfor benefits and the employee experience (for our employees and those of the customers we serve) by scaling personalization compassion and an earnest intent to be helpful in all that we do.
Jellyvision people are a group of creative problem solvers who use good judgment give each other honest feedback engage in real debate and snack frequently. We are curious hungry and humblebecause we know this is how well continue to make an impact. Were kind biased towards action and sweat the details to create great experiences for those we serve.
We are an inclusive human-first workplace. Respect and trust for each other are foundational and our equitable total rewards offerings support the lives and holistic well-being of our unique people. At Jellyvision expect career experiences that challenge you empower you to have a direct impact on our mission and enable you to learn try and do while having fun along the way.
Whats the role
The Software Engineering Manager will be leading a talented development team and accountable for successful delivery on the product roadmap. Youll prioritize and break down work and organize the team to do the work efficiently with high quality. Youll remove impediments coach your team and help them grow. An Engineering Manager supports cross-functional product teams and serves as the Agile Owner for each of those product teams.
What youll do to be successful
1.) Lead by example and drive engineering best practices
- Directly manage a team of onshore and offshore software engineers
- Lead an iterative approach to developing software that continuously delivers added value to the market in line with roadmap milestones
- Organize and assign work across the team. Break down the work into appropriate sizes to maximize efficiency
- Balance feature work with maintenance tech debt and internal support tasks
- Direct the work of Software Engineers to ensure best practices around software development and act as a coach mentoring team members to improve their skills and design stellar projects
2.) Manage and collaborate with key stakeholders
- Manage the logistics of the team; from people management performance management hiring and right-sizing to training and promoting to enforcing deadlines
- In partnership with the Product Owner ensures that products are being designed developed and tested with high quality standards and in alignment with the architecture vision
- Ensure project milestones goals and measures for success are met
- Provide proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets commitments and progress
- Drive operational excellence via collecting and sharing team metrics to drive continuous improvement (DORA complying/meeting application SLIs driver of CI/CD teams security vulnerabilities infra cost/usage tracking monitors and alerts)
- Proactively mitigate risks escalate issues when necessary and collaborate with other internal teams and stakeholders to find solutions
Experience & skills youll need
- Deep understanding of how large scale software systems are designed built tested deployed and into the hands of customers
- Experience in using delivery and performance metrics to drive a team
- At least 2 years of experience managing offshore development teams using common Agile methods (Scrum Kanban XP)
- An affinity for modern software development best practices like daily deployments robust and efficient CI/CD pipelines test-driven development feature flagging etc.
- Strong decision-making skills that allow teams to take action that is consistent with available facts constraints and probable consequences
- Demonstrated advanced ability to operate using analytical critical thinking organizational and project management skills
- Experience with following or similar:: Snowflake Looker Datadog cloud formats like AWS and Infrastructure as Code
- Exceptional leadership skills; knows how to co-create a vision reinforce it and align teams stakeholders and an organization around it
The Details
- Location: Remote
- Starting Salary: $164000-$200000
What Jellyvision will giveyou
- Check out our benefits here!
Jellyvision is committed to continuous evolution and fostering a more diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is welcomed valued and respected. It doesnt matter your race ethnicity religion age disability sexual orientation gender gender identity/expression country of origin genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) criminal histories consistent with legal requirements or any other basis protected by just want amazing people who are willing to grow along with us.
Although we have a Chicago-based HQ that employees are welcome to work out of whether theyre local or just visiting this position is also eligible for work by a remote employee out of CA CO FL GA IL IN KY MA MI MN NC NJ NY OH OR PA SC TN TX UT VA WA or WI.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
