Manager, Software Engineering (Remote)

Localize is seeking an energetic, growth-minded Software Engineering Manager to join our US-based remote team. 

In this Software Engineering Manager role, you'll oversee a small team of software engineers across our remote organization. You'll lead this teams through all phases of the software development lifecycle, mentoring their professional growth and driving their success. Your leadership will play a key role in shaping our engineering practices and contributing to product strategy and execution. You will collaborate with a talented cross-functional team of Product and Design and oversee Agile ceremonies, set coding and testing standards, and ensure the quality of deliverables. Your leadership will be essential in building scalable technology, promoting innovation and efficiency within the team, and ensuring the successful delivery of software solutions. This role will report to the Head of Engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a  remote engineering teams, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to team members

• Oversee the quality of engineers' deliverables, including coding, testing, and debugging, to maintain high standards of software quality

• Provide coaching in Agile practices, product management, software architecture, and individual growth, contributing to team development 

• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, emphasizing innovation and continuous improvement

• Cultivate a customer-focused ethos, instilling a passion for success within the team 

• Deliver projects on time and within scope in a distributed workforce setting

• Implement effective project management strategies to mitigate risks and ensure successful project outcomes

• Continuously seek innovation and process improvement opportunities, finding efficiencies in all assigned tasks to drive the team's success

• Lead the design and implementation of software solutions ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability; expect to be reviewing code, and coding where it’s needed to move the team along

Technologies:  Experience with these specific technologies a plus, but not strictly required

• Frontend: Javascript, React, Redux, Backbone, Handlebars, Less

• Backend: Javascript, Node, Express, Mongoose

• Datastores: MongoDB (Mongoose.js ODM), Redis, S3

• Infrastructure:  AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, Elasticache, Cloudfront, Route53, etc

• DevOps / Misc:  Git/Github, Jira, CircleCI, Mocha

Qualifications:

• Combination of a highly technical software engineering leader and an effective people manager with 3+ years of experience managing and 5+ years in software engineering

• Experience leading geographically diverse engineering teams in today’s remote first work environment

• Proven success with accountability and leading a team through complex challenges

• Successful track record of identifying roadblocks and keeping teams on track 

• Coach and train team on Software Development processes and best practices

• Set clear objectives and goals for the team and motivate from within the team to help them deliver upon those goals, and continually assess progress and drive improvement

• Experience conducting interviews and hiring for your team

• Comfortable guiding the team strategically as well as contributing hands on where it’s needed to support the team 

• Experience in negotiating cross-functional projects and driving business growth

• Experience partnering with cross functional teams to build the best customer experience, help drive architecture, define best practices and enable product quality 

• Experience developing SaaS applications/platforms

Benefits & Perks:

You’ll be joining a close knit and talented team, with plenty of opportunity for professional growth. We offer compensation + benefits that are on par with large companies, while also placing a high value on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• Competitive salary

• 401(k) plan + 4% matching

• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance

• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance

• Work anywhere in North America (we are 100% remote)

• Shiny new Macbook Pro 16” (or computer of your choice)

• Monthly stipend for home internet costs

• Generous PTO package

About Localize:

The Localize platform is used by 700+ companies to automate the translation of their web and mobile applications and bring their products & services to new markets at record speed. We help companies like Ahrefs to translate their website, NYU Langone Health to translate their urgent care scheduling page, and the University of Nebraska at Kearney to translate their international admissions page. To see our product in action, click any of those links and use the website's language switcher to switch from English to another language. 

Localize works by providing a code snippet (similar to the Google Analytics JavaScript snippet) that our customers add to their website/web app. The Localize snippet pulls in content from the page into the Localize dashboard where our customers log in to add translations and manage their content. Localize automatically deploys those translations to the customer's production site, reducing development costs and accelerating time to market. 

We are a team of +25 people working fully remote. We offer competitive pay, a full benefits package, and a culture with an emphasis on work + life balance.

This position is only open to applicants who reside in and are eligible to work in the US.

To apply:

Along with your resume, send us a cover letter that tells us more about you and why we should hire you. Previous experience working in a remote position is a must.