Job Description

People Leadership: Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team. Coach, mentor, and grow engineers, ensuring they have opportunities for professional development and career advancement Team Visibility & Communication: Maintain a deep understanding of the team s daily work, struggles, and successes. Proactively surface issues, provide solutions, and ensure leadership is never in the dark Execution Leadership: Plan, prioritize, and oversee the execution of engineering projects. Make sure work is delivered on time without compromising quality and hold the team accountable while removing blockers Technical Oversight: Provide guidance on technical decisions, ensuring best practices and high engineering standards. You don t need to write code daily, but you should be able to engage in architectural discussions and call out technical risks Transparency & Trust: Keep leadership informed with no surprises. Clear and effective communication with leadership is critical to success in this role Culture & Engagement: Foster an environment of ownership, accountability, and open feedback. Push for excellence but ensure psychological safety so the team is empowered to innovate and take risks Decision-Making & Tough Conversations: Know when to push, when to support, and when to have direct conversations about performance and expectations Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, UX, and other teams to ensure technical efforts align with business priorities Continuous Improvement: Identify bottlenecks in engineering processes and drive improvements in execution, communication, and team effectiveness Job Requirements: Experience leading software engineering teams, with a strong track record of building and growing talent Excellent communication skills, both within the team and upward to leadership A strong technical background, ideally having been a software engineer in the past A deep understanding of execution and how to keep a team focused and accountable Experience working in an environment that requires balancing execution speed, technical excellence, and business needs Ability to handle difficult conversations with clarity and fairness; this includes performance management, feedback, and driving accountability Strong grasp of modern software development practices, including agile methodologies, CI/CD, and DevOps principles Comfort with ambiguity: ability to bring structure and clarity where it is lacking Preferred Qualifications: Experience managing teams working on complex or legacy codebases while driving modernization efforts Familiarity with performance optimization, debugging, and system reliability A track record of making tough calls when necessary, whether technical, operational, or people-related Experience in cloud-based architectures and microservices