Manager, Engineering
Role Overview
Lead an engineering team of seven to eight across development and automation/quality engineering.
Build a new team from the ground up and establish its working practices.
Partner with a Staff Software Engineer who owns technical direction and design authority.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead an engineering team of seven to eight across development and automation/quality engineering.
Build a new team from the ground up and establish its working practices.
Partner with a Staff Software Engineer who owns technical direction and design authority.
What you'll do
- Own backlog refinement and gatekeep Definition of Ready so work has sufficient clarity to finish.
- Mentor, onboard and support career development across the team.
- Lead hiring for the team and run interview panels.
- Participate in code review by reading team code; feature delivery is not expected.
- Report delivery and quality status and manage scope changes with product management.
What you'll bring
- At least 3 years managing software engineering teams, plus a prior engineering background.
- Reading fluency in the relevant team’s primary languages: Java and Shell for Trust & Platform, or Java, TypeScript and Robot Framework for Experience & Data.
- Experience hiring and onboarding engineers, including running technical interview panels.
- Experience owning backlog refinement and Definition of Ready for a delivery team.
- Comfort partnering with a senior individual contributor who holds technical authority.
- Experience growing intermediate engineers into senior engineers.
- Demonstrated use of Spec-Driven Development and AI-assisted development lifecycle practices, or a directly equivalent methodology.
- Experience standing up a new team or site is beneficial.
Workplace
- The company describes its working model as hybrid, based on trust and flexibility.
Benefits
- Group medical, personal accident and term life coverage.
- Generous paid time off and observed holidays, plus two paid volunteer days per year.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program and fundraising opportunities through the company giving program.
- Custom learning experience through N-ablite Learning.
About N-able
N-able provides an end-to-end cyber resilience platform to help businesses manage, secure and recover.
Its technology includes AI-powered capabilities and third-party integrations, with products, experts, training and peer-led events.
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