AHEAD - Software Engineering Manager – Foundry
Requirements
• Minimum Required – 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a management or team-lead role. • Preferred – 8+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years managing teams building web applications and experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or ERP systems. • Programming Languages and Technologies: Experience managing teams building web applications, ideally in Elixir/Phoenix or similar modern stacks, with the ability to provide meaningful technical guidance. • AI-Assisted Development: Fluency with modern AI development tools, and a clear point of view on how they change the way teams build, hire, and measure impact. • Development Practices: Strong understanding of software development practices, including testing, CI/CD, code review, and Agile methodologies. • People Management: Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent, with a genuine interest in the growth and well-being of the people you manage. • Delivery Management: Experience managing delivery across multiple products or initiatives simultaneously. • Trust and Collaboration: A track record of building trust with both the team and cross-functional partners. • Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences. • Adaptability: Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information. • APIs and Infrastructure: Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs, database design, and cloud infrastructure is a plus. • Domain Knowledge: Experience in manufacturing or supply chain is a plus. • $180,000 - $220,000 a year
Responsibilities
• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers building Signal, the software that drives Foundry. • Global Collaboration: Lead a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with developers based in both the US and India. • Career Development: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development for team members. • Hiring and Onboarding: Participate in hiring efforts, including sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding new engineers, hiring and developing for judgment, product sense, and verification skills rather than raw output. • Team Culture: Foster a healthy team culture built on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with product management and business stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable development plans. • Delivery Ownership: Own delivery timelines and ensure the team ships high-quality software on schedule. • Technical Guidance: Guide technical discussions and help the team make sound architectural decisions. • Removing Obstacles: Remove obstacles and shield the team from distractions so they can focus on building. • Development Process: Establish and refine development processes and AI-assisted workflows, balancing agility with predictability. • AI Leadership: Champion fluent, responsible use of AI tools and coding agents as a force multiplier, so the team delivers faster while staying firmly accountable for review, testing, quality, and security. • AI Workflows and Standards: Shape the team’s AI workflows, tooling, and standards, and keep improving them as the landscape shifts. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, customer success, and other engineering teams. • Technical Engagement: Stay close enough to the codebase, and to how the team works with AI, to give meaningful input during code reviews and technical planning.
Benefits
• Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. • We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. • If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at [email protected]. • You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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