Senior Engineering Manager

As the team’s Sr. Engineering Manager you play a critical role in helping that team deliver on the core roadmapping functionality, integrations with 3rd parties, public and private APIs, product growth improvements and tooling of Tempo’s Strategic Roadmaps SaaS product (formally Roadmunk). You work directly with our talented engineering, product, design, QA, SRE and customer support teams. As an engineering manager you work with the team to manage their priorities, workloads, make trade-off decisions, and ensure work is completed in a high quality fashion to deliver a next shippable product increment. 

We expect you to learn from us and us to learn from you.

In order to be successful in this position, you need to have strong communication skills, ability to express thoughts clearly and concisely; attention to quality, performance at scale and detail; analytical and growth mindset, and strong project and people management skills. We offer challenging work, a friendly, collaborative environment and opportunities to create best in class products with a strong team.

WHAT YOU'LL DO - 

• Lead, mentor, and grow one or more software development teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement,  including and not limited to team management, professional development, goal setting, monitoring and control, risk analysis and management

• Deliver valuable product features with scalable cloud native solutions, addressing cross cutting concerns like observability, automation testing and security, leveraging languages and technologies like Typescript, NodeJS, React, Java, SQL, and a variety of AWS tools and services

• Process management and coordination of efforts across multiple teams, sub-teams and functions

• Support the team's technical decisions in alignment with the company’s strategic goals 

• Maintain the high standards of the company and product engineering culture

• Present project updates, technical challenges, and engineering achievements to senior leadership and stakeholders

Who You Are - 

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development

• 3+ years proven experience leading, mentoring, and inspiring a team of software developers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to foster their professional growth and development

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of software development life cycle, CI/CD

• Experience managing and leading Agile projects

• Strong technical background, with understanding of and experience in cloud application architectures, with the ability to contribute to design and architecture decisions

• Experience with monitoring and observability services like Dynatrace, NewRelic or Sentry. We like Datadog.

• Technical literacy, broad awareness of the major trends in the IT industry

• Attention to detail, responsibility and autonomy

• Excellent communication skills

• Curious nature and a drive to solve problems collaboratively

WOULD BE A PLUS - 

• A proven track record of building teams and optimizing processes to drive technical and operational excellence across the team

• Experience building product integrations

• Experience with Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) products

• Experience building with AWS, DocumentDB, Typescript

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU - 

• Remote First Work Environment!

• Unlimited vacation in most of our locations

• Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan

• Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more

• Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work

• An opportunity to have a real impact on our business

• A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual)

• Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices

• Employee referral program

Note: As our hiring teams are global, please submit your resume in English only.

ORG-WIDE SUMMARY - 

As one of the largest, award-winning, and top-selling app vendors in the Atlassian Marketplace supporting over 30,000 customers around the world, including a third of the Fortune 500 companies, we hire top talent who build with heart and succeed with others. We have the privilege of serving many customers who are among the most well-known companies in the world: NASA, Google, Slack, AirBnB, Adobe, Cisco, Intel, Sony, Disney, Netflix, Toyota, Twitter - to name drop just a few.

We’re on a mission to help modern, forward-thinking product and engineering teams work better. Our product suite of roadmapping, project portfolio management, time management, resource planning, and reporting insights provides solutions that enable organizations to manage large portfolios of work successfully from strategic planning to successful execution.

We envision a world where everyone inside an organization works in harmony on the most impactful opportunities aligned with their mission. Come join us as we continuously innovate our industry-leading products and expand to new ecosystems. We are looking for exceptional candidates who will bring their unique perspectives to our global teams.

At Tempo Software, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive culture. As such all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.