Software Engineering Team Manager

As Engineering Manager, you lead a small engineering team on the Enterprise Learning & Skills platform, focusing on reliable delivery and team growth. You’ll align work with product goals, coordinate with Product, Customer Success, and vendors, and ensure high engineering standards. You guide design discussions with technical depth, triage blockers, and foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement. This role offers impact by scaling a large-scale API-driven system that issues and verifies digital credentials, with a strong emphasis on people and delivery.

• Lead and coach a small team building Ruby on Rails services and React frontends, ensuring well-being and performance
• Plan and allocate daily and sprint work, monitor delivery schedules, and adjust priorities to keep projects on track
• Troubleshoot obstacles, clarify requirements, and coordinate handoffs across engineers, teams, and vendors
• Triage bugs and production issues with attention to customer impact
• Maintain coding/QA standards, reviews, test thoroughness, and team documentation
• Provide real-time feedback, conduct regular 1:1s, and recognize contributions
• Own onboarding and skill development to reduce ramp-up time
• Identify and implement team process improvements and escalate high-impact issues
• Champion responsible use of AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, and documentation
• Uphold secure, ethical, and resilient engineering practices across all ships

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years in a formal or informal engineering management role
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, PostgreSQL; understanding of API management, cloud, DevOps, and software design
• Proven track record delivering reliably with coding and QA standards
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills
• Experience onboarding and developing engineers with faster ramp-up
• Judgement to escalate issues appropriately
• Adaptability and ongoing learning mindset
• Solid understanding of information and data security fundamentals

• collaboration
• communication
• adaptability
• Ruby on Rails
• React
• AWS