Manager, Software Engineering

Firstup is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the delivery of customer-facing AI-enabled Web applications for their SaaS platform hosted on AWS. The role involves technical leadership, people management, and operational ownership, with a focus on delivering enterprise-grade products in a “you build it, you run it” environment.

Requirements

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, customer-facing web applications using modern microservices architectures.
• Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Drive the thoughtful adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to increase developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate innovation.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own production health for your teams’ services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a “you build it, you run it” environment.
• Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with defined SLOs and enterprise SLAs.

Benefits

• PTO program
• Great health benefits
• Casual and friendly environment
• Remote work
• Leadership team who believes in growth – both personally and professionally