Manager, Engineering

Smarsh • Pleasanton, CA

26d • $170,000 - $190,000

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Manager of Engineering to lead our US Server team. This role involves managing and mentoring a team of Java developers, while also providing strong technical leadership across system architecture, design, and implementation. You will guide the team in developing new product capabilities and enhancing existing ones across both our federal enclave environment and our AWS-based cloud production environment. This position includes dual responsibility across two major domains. Leading, designing, and supporting capabilities within our federal enclave, including strict compliance requirements, secure development practices, and constrained deployment workflows. Driving cloud-native development in AWS, improving our services, reliability, scalability, and efficiency with modern DevOps practices and tooling. The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader, an excellent communicator, and someone who thrives in an Agile environment where mentorship, ownership, and collaboration are key.
Our tech stack includes Redis, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, Maven, and GitHub

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java development, including strong expertise with Spring / Spring Boot.
• 2+ years of experience leading a development team or providing significant technical leadership.
• Strong understanding of OOP, Java internals, concurrency, and multi-threaded programming.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing distributed backend systems and microservices.
• Hands-on experience working within secure or federal enclave environments or similar highly restricted environments.
• Practical experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
• DevOps-oriented mindset, familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, automation, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead both people and technology.
• Experience with production environments, monitoring, metrics, and performance optimization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting FedRAMP-certified products.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Kafka or other event-driven messaging systems.
• Familiarity with Redis, Oracle, or PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience with Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Strong testing mindset (unit, component, integration).
• Experience with large-scale microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Java developers, including hiring, coaching, performance reviews, and professional development.
• Own technical design and architecture decisions across services deployed in both federal enclave and AWS cloud environments.
• Guide team members in delivering high quality, secure, and scalable backend systems.
• Promote engineering best practices, including code quality, system design, test coverage, DevOps, and security.
• Collaborate closely with Product, DevOps, QA, and Security teams to ensure high quality and compliant releases.
• Oversee production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, system tuning, and operational improvements.
• Drive innovation, evaluate new tools and technologies, and continuously improve engineering processes.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure predictable, high quality delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed