Manager, Software Engineering

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the role:

Were looking for an Engineering Manager with a passion for Frontend developer experience to help lead the technical direction of our Frontend Architecture and Developer Experience. This team builds and maintains the infrastructure tools and workflows that power frontend development at Samsaraenabling hundreds of engineers to build test and ship high-quality software quickly and reliably.

As a technical leader youll work across the engineering org to identify and eliminate friction in the development lifecycle drive adoption of best practices and architect scalable solutions for shared problems. Youll help shape the future of frontend engineering at Samsara through hands-on work mentorship and long-term technical strategy.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.

You should apply if:

You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software firmware and hardware you build will result in real-world impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the worlds physical operations.
You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies challenges and customers that push us to learn on the go.
You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews collaborate with customer success and product managers and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission were all racing toward our connected operations vision and we intend to wintogether.

In this role you will:

Lead high-impact technical projects that improve frontend developer productivity such as build performance test infrastructure or CI pipelines.
Collaborate with engineers across the company to scale shared tooling enforce consistency and drive adoption of platform improvements.
Define the long-term vision and roadmap for frontend in partnership with engineering leadership.
Mentor engineers and influence technical standards patterns and best practices across the frontend org.
Set a high-standard for the reliability of your components
Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Hire develop and lead an inclusive engaged and high performing team.

Minimum requirements for the role:

8 years of experience in software engineering with at least 5 years leading web development teams.
Software Architecture: Strong knowledge of web architecture patterns with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
Frontend Development Expertise: Deep experience with modern JavaScript frameworks particularly React and strong proficiency in TypeScript. Understanding of functional and component-based architecture state management (e.g. Redux) and performance optimizations.
Styling and UI Frameworks: Strong knowledge of CSS including component libraries (e.g. Material UI) to deliver consistent and scalable design systems.
GraphQL: Familiarity in using GraphQL for efficient data fetching and API design with a working knowledge of integrating GraphQL in web environments.
DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines automated testing frameworks and monitoring tools to ensure high-quality releases.

An ideal candidate also has:

Leadership Skills: Proven ability to build and scale diverse engineering teams and a track record of delivering successful large-scale web applications in a fast-paced agile environment.
Collaboration & Communication: Excellent interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
A customer-focused mindset and good product sense.
5 years of experience in SaaS software development roles.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
Experience with best practices around testing monitoring and SLAs to ensure high product quality in large-scale distributed web services.

#LI-Remote

Required Experience:

Manager

About the role:Were looking for an Engineering Manager with a passion for Frontend developer experience to help lead the technical direction of our Frontend Architecture and Developer Experience. This team builds and maintains the infrastructure tools and workflows that power frontend development at...

About the role:

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US.

You should apply if:

You want to impact the industries that run our world: The software firmware and hardware you build will result in real-world impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
You want to build for scale: With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed to our global customers you will work on a range of new and mature technologies driving scalable innovation for customers across industries driving the worlds physical operations.
You are a life-long learner: We have ambitious goals. Every Samsarian has a growth mindset as we work with a wide range of technologies challenges and customers that push us to learn on the go.
You believe customers are more than a number: Samsara engineers enjoy a rare closeness to the end user and you will have the opportunity to participate in customer interviews collaborate with customer success and product managers and use metrics to ensure our work is translating into better customer outcomes.
You are a team player: Working on our Samsara Engineering teams requires a mix of independent effort and collaboration. Motivated by our mission were all racing toward our connected operations vision and we intend to wintogether.

In this role you will:

Lead high-impact technical projects that improve frontend developer productivity such as build performance test infrastructure or CI pipelines.
Collaborate with engineers across the company to scale shared tooling enforce consistency and drive adoption of platform improvements.
Define the long-term vision and roadmap for frontend in partnership with engineering leadership.
Mentor engineers and influence technical standards patterns and best practices across the frontend org.
Set a high-standard for the reliability of your components
Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
Hire develop and lead an inclusive engaged and high performing team.

Minimum requirements for the role:

8 years of experience in software engineering with at least 5 years leading web development teams.
Software Architecture: Strong knowledge of web architecture patterns with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
Frontend Development Expertise: Deep experience with modern JavaScript frameworks particularly React and strong proficiency in TypeScript. Understanding of functional and component-based architecture state management (e.g. Redux) and performance optimizations.
Styling and UI Frameworks: Strong knowledge of CSS including component libraries (e.g. Material UI) to deliver consistent and scalable design systems.
GraphQL: Familiarity in using GraphQL for efficient data fetching and API design with a working knowledge of integrating GraphQL in web environments.
DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines automated testing frameworks and monitoring tools to ensure high-quality releases.

An ideal candidate also has:

Leadership Skills: Proven ability to build and scale diverse engineering teams and a track record of delivering successful large-scale web applications in a fast-paced agile environment.
Collaboration & Communication: Excellent interpersonal and cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
A customer-focused mindset and good product sense.
5 years of experience in SaaS software development roles.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
Experience with best practices around testing monitoring and SLAs to ensure high product quality in large-scale distributed web services.

#LI-Remote

Required Experience:

Manager

Key Skills

Hospitality Experience
Go
Management Experience
React
Redux
Node.js
AWS
Mechanical Engineering
Team Management
Leadership Experience
Mentoring
Distributed Systems

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About Company

Samsara

Publicly traded company [NYSE: IOT] offering a single platform for fleet operations at scale. Products include real-time GPS, ELD, AI-powered dash cams, telematics, maintenance, routing, & driver app. Recognized by the Forbes Cloud 100.

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