Software Engineering Manager

Role Overview

Lead and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a high-performance and growth-oriented engineering culture. Own end-to-end delivery, execution predictability, and operational excellence for one or more engineering teams delivering distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS.

What You Will Do

Drive technical and organizational execution, establish team goals, delivery plans, and execution mechanisms to meet roadmap commitments with high quality and predictability. Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and technical leaders through regular feedback, career development planning, and performance management.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be part of the Places Publication team, responsible for the last mile of Places data delivery. You will have the opportunity to work in a cutting-edge technology environment with challenging problems to solve and make a direct impact on delivery of company's strategic goals.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on technical depth in backend/distributed systems
• 3+ years of people management experience leading engineering teams with senior technical talent
• Strong technical foundation in Java / Scala / Python and cloud-native distributed systems architecture
• Proven experience delivering large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms on AWS
• Demonstrated success managing senior engineers/technical leads while driving execution through delegation rather than direct coding
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across product, architecture, and executive leadership
• Experience building high-performing engineering teams in globally distributed environments
• Understanding of AI-assisted SDLC practices including prompt engineering for design, code generation, testing, documentation, and refactoring
• Ability to drive AI adoption within engineering teams and improve developer productivity through effective use of AI tools

Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge technology environment
• Freedom to decide how to perform work
• Support in delivering day-to-day tasks and achieving personal goals
• Personal development encouraged
• Access to online Learning Campus
• Cross-functional team projects within Talent Platform
• Equal opportunity employer