firstup - Manager, Software Engineering
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and developing engineering teams. • Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale. • Strong hands-on or architectural experience with AWS (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring). • Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design, and microservices architectures. • Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or equivalent technologies. • Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases. • Demonstrated success operating in a production-owned, “you build it, you run it” environment. • Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills in cross-functional Agile/Scrum environments. • Experience scaling and evolving Enterprise SaaS platforms through periods of growth or technical transformation. • Demonstrated experience leveraging Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows. • Exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains. • Firstup expects the base salary for this role to be between $190,000-$230,000. The starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.
Responsibilities
• 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. • Partner closely with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions. • 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
• Because you care - about people, the work you do, and the connections you make. Work is such a large part of life; it only makes sense to make it awesome. • If you want to engage brilliant minds in a high-growth and inclusive environment where ideas are rewarded regardless of who they come from, join us. This is a rapidly changing space so if you thrive on ambiguity, are hungry for a challenge, and have the guts to speak your mind, you could be a perfect fit. • We offer an excellent PTO program, great health benefits, a casual and friendly environment, remote work, and a leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally.
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