Software Engineering Manager (handson)

Heres a summary of the role:

Lead a strong engineering team deliver software that matters and help people do the best work of their careers. This is a hands-on team management role for someone who enjoys combining people leadership technical fluency and modern AI-enabled ways of working to build reliable products at scale.

Youll lead engineers building secure scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. Youll partner closely with Product Security DevOps and peer engineering leaders to deliver roadmap outcomes improve team effectiveness and create an environment where engineers can grow own their work and build high-quality systems with confidence.

Heres a breakdown of what youll do not all of it just the important stuff:

• Lead coach and support a team of engineers creating clarity around priorities ownership expectations and growth goals.
• Partner with Product Security DevOps and peer engineering leaders to plan and deliver roadmap commitments while balancing quality pace and sustainability.
• Create a healthy delivery environment by improving team processes removing blockers supporting planning and estimation and reinforcing strong engineering practices.
• Maintain enough technical depth to guide design discussions challenge risks review trade-offs and support the team in building secure and maintainable systems.
• Use AI tools and encourage responsible AI-assisted ways of working that improve productivity while protecting privacy security quality and good judgment.
• Support hiring feedback performance conversations and career development so the team continues to grow in capability and confidence.

These are the essentials youll need to get an interview:

• 8 or more years of software engineering experience including experience leading projects and supporting or managing engineers in an agile product environment.
• Experience managing teams that build cloud-native microservices in AWS.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience coaching engineers building accountability and helping teams plan and deliver effectively.
• A solid technical background in backend engineering including TypeScript AWS APIs and production systems supported by SQL or NoSQL data stores.
• Good understanding of CI/CD observability incident support and modern engineering practices such as Docker-based workflows and infrastructure as code.
• Practical understanding of AI-enabled engineering and product use cases including common LLM concepts and considerations such as privacy security bias governance and cost.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to work effectively with engineers product managers and senior stakeholders.
• A quality security and delivery mindset with the judgment to balance business outcomes team health and sustainable engineering practices.

It would be great if you had these too but well support you if you dont:

• Exposure to hiring organizational planning or broader cross-team delivery initiatives.
• Experience helping teams adopt AI-assisted development tools or AI-enabled product capabilities in a practical and responsible way.

About Us

Diligent is the AI leader in governance risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions helping more than 1 million users and 700000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk build greater resilience and make better decisions faster.

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What Diligent Offers You

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people.Diligent offers a flexible work environment global days of service comprehensive health benefits meeting free days generous time off policy and wellness programsto name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City but we have office hubs in Washington D.C. Vancouver London Galway Budapest Munich Bengaluru Singapore and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team facilitate dialogue and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate smart and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future but who want to make the world a more sustainable equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York Diligent has offices in Washington D.C. London Galway Budapest Vancouver Bengaluru Munich Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations you will be expected towork onsite at least 50% of the time.We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation teamwork and a strong sense of community.

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