Software Engineering Manager
Location
California + 18 moreAll locations: California | Colorado | Florida | Illinois | Kentucky | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oregon | Michigan | Minnesota | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin
Posted
56 days ago
Salary
$165K - $185K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Software Engineering Manager
Jellyvision
• Directly manage a team of software engineers—owning their development, quality bar, and technical direction • Coach and mentor engineers to sharpen skills, design better systems, and develop sound judgment about when and how to use AI tools effectively • Organize and assign work alongside the Technical Lead and Product Owner, breaking it into right-sized pieces that maximize efficiency • Balance feature work with maintenance, tech debt, and internal support • Set a high bar for technical quality across our JavaScript (React) and Python stack; you're accountable for the team's output • Model and encourage fluent, responsible use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil • Help engineers develop sound judgment about AI-generated output—when to trust it, when to push back, and how to prompt effectively • Stay current on AI tooling; evaluate new tools with a practical, outcomes-focused lens and bring relevant advances to the team • Identify opportunities for AI to improve team workflows: code review, test generation, documentation, incident analysis • Contribute to org-wide conversations about AI governance, appropriate use, and engineer skill development • Handle team logistics: performance management, hiring, right-sizing, training, and promotions • Partner with the Product Owner to ensure work is designed, developed, and tested to high quality standards and aligned with the architecture vision • Proactively communicate delivery targets, commitments, and progress • Drive operational excellence through team metrics (DORA, SLIs, CI/CD health, security vulnerabilities, infra cost/usage) • Mitigate risks proactively, escalate when needed, and collaborate across teams to find solutions
Job Requirements
- Deep understanding of how large-scale software systems are designed, built, tested, deployed, and delivered to customers
- Experience using delivery and performance metrics to drive a team
- At least 2 years managing offshore development teams using Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Genuine hands-on familiarity with AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools—you've used them, formed opinions, and helped others use them well
- Ability to evaluate AI-generated code: understanding failure modes, reviewing for correctness and security, and coaching engineers to do the same
- An affinity for modern software development best practices: daily deployments, robust CI/CD, test-driven development, feature flagging, and AI-assisted workflows
- Strong decision-making skills; acts consistently with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences
- Demonstrated analytical, critical thinking, organizational, and project management ability
- Experience with tools like Snowflake, Looker, Datadog, AWS, and Infrastructure as Code
- Exceptional leadership skills: co-creates a vision, reinforces it, and aligns teams and stakeholders around it.
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