Nova Credit - Senior Software Engineering Manager

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a management role hiring and leading high-performing teams in a face-paced, product-driven environment or high-growth startups. • Strong technical foundation with the ability to engage deeply in architectural discussions and guide technical strategy without needing to be the primary coder. • Exceptional leadership and mentorship skills, with a passion for developing engineers’ careers and building inclusive, highly collaborative team cultures. • Strategic collaborator who can partner effectively with Product, Design, and Data Science leadership to align technical roadmaps with business objectives. • Your Contributions Across Diverse Projects: • Driving the execution of complex, cross-functional initiatives that span product verticals and foundational systems. • Defining and refining team-level technical strategies to ensure long-term scalability and reliability of our enterprise-grade platform. • Scaling the engineering organization through active participation in hiring, onboarding, and organizational design. • Optimizing engineering processes such as sprint planning, code review standards, and incident management to improve team velocity and quality. • Acting as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business goals into clear technical milestones for your team. • Engaging deeply with the team’s day-to-day challenges to provide guidance and support new product and customer launches. • In the first month, you’ll: • Deepen your understanding of our mission and business model while becoming familiar with our technical roadmap, engineering culture, and development lifecycle. • Build rapport with your direct reports and key stakeholders across engineering, product, and design. • Land several initial tickets to quickly familiarize yourself with our tech stack and release process. • Take ownership of your team’s delivery, identifying early opportunities to remove blockers and ensuring high-impact initiatives are met with quality and speed. • In the first quarter, you’ll: • Establish clear performance goals and career development plans for your direct reports. • Actively contribute to refining engineering norms, such as optimizing project planning and elevating code review standards. • Collaborate with leadership to shape the next phase of the product roadmap based on technical feasibility and strategic impact. • Drive measurable improvements in delivery, velocity and quality, directly improving the impact and reliability of our product offering. • In the first year, you’ll: • Successfully scale your team’s impact by identifying and hiring top-tier engineering talent. • Influence and implement the company’s broader technical roadmap in close partnership with senior leadership. • Drive significant architectural or systemic improvements that simplify and scale our product platform. • Become a recognized leader within the organization, championing a culture of open dialogue, feedback, and continuous technical growth. • $212,500 - $259,200 USD per year