Software Engineering Manager
Role Overview
Engineering Manager for the full-stack team responsible for the Activix CRM platform and related services.
The role combines people leadership, technical credibility, and delivery management.
Key Skills for This Role
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Opportunity
Engineering Manager for the full-stack team responsible for the Activix CRM platform and related services.
The role combines people leadership, technical credibility, and delivery management.
Leadership and delivery
- Turn ambiguous goals into practical actions, set ownership, remove blockers, track commitments, and escalate risks early with recommendations.
- Develop engineers through clear expectations, feedback, career and performance conversations, thoughtful hiring, and onboarding.
- Partner with Product, UX, Data, and adjacent teams on outcomes, scope, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate ceremonies; manage capacity, milestones, progress, dependencies, risks, and forecasts; review outcomes and production performance after release.
- Use retrospectives to address recurring delivery problems and protect time for technical improvement, mentoring, and learning.
Technical and operational leadership
- Understand architecture, code, integrations, and infrastructure; participate in design and code reviews, investigate difficult issues, and provide hands-on support.
- Balance delivery speed with maintainability, performance, and security while growing shared ownership and engineering judgment.
- Set service ownership and standards for testing, observability, accessibility, security, privacy, and release readiness.
- Define service-level objectives, support incident response, and turn incident and technical-debt learnings into prioritized improvements.
- Guide AI tool and agent use across discovery, implementation, testing, review, and documentation, with validation, independent review, and accountable human decisions.
Company and product context
AutoSync builds software to help automotive dealerships simplify operations, improve marketing, and drive sales.
Activix is the CRM team and platform named for this role.
Requirements
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including feedback, career development, hiring, onboarding, and performance conversations.
- Technical credibility sufficient to understand application architecture, code, integrations, and infrastructure and guide engineering decisions.
- Ability to plan delivery, manage capacity, milestones, dependencies, risks, and forecasts, and facilitate useful team ceremonies.
- Ability to establish standards for testing, observability, accessibility, security, privacy, and release readiness.
- Ability to guide practical AI adoption with validation, independent engineering review, and accountable human decisions.
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