Manager, Software Development (Developer Tools)

Appian Corporation • McLean, VA

15h • Onsite

About The Position

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.
Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.
We’re not only about building awesome software, but also about growing our culture of passion, energy, and innovation; great people, great software! Our Engineering Enablement team is growing. This team empowers the Engineering Department to achieve maximum productivity and ensure the reliability of customer systems by providing valuable insights, effective tools, and best practices. As a Engineering Manager at Appian, you will provide technical leadership, direct 1-on-1 mentoring, and coaching, and are responsible for the professional growth and development of engineers. Managers work directly on teams and act as servant leaders who enjoy helping their group succeed. Along with managing a cohort of engineers, you apply software engineering solutions to operational problems and drive the delivery features, and drive changes that will improve our organization overall.

As a manager working on services supporting our internal SDLC, you will be responsible for designing, building, operating, and maintaining services and related infrastructure that enable Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) across all engineering teams. Beyond implementing and managing these services, the team provides tooling, documentation, and support to enable productive use of them.
This role is based at our ​h​eadquarters in ​McLean, Virginia. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Knowledge of continuous integration, deployment, and cloud infrastructure practices
• You have managed 3-5 software engineers - providing technical leadership, direct 1-on-1 mentoring and coaching to improve their technical skills, and handling general HR management responsibilities
• Strong skills in one or more programming languages (Python, Golang, Java, etc.)
• Experience with some common technologies of our stack such as ArgoCD, GitLab, Kubernetes, Terraform, Gradle, AWS
• Clear communicator, especially to large diverse technical audiences
• Driver of necessary change, at all organizational levels
• Able to make difficult decisions about what to prioritize and what to ignore. You identify where you can make the most beneficial impact for the department and continue working until that benefit has been achieved
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field, advanced degree preferred
• 6+ years in software development, with 1+ years as a mentor or manager preferred

Responsibilities

• designing, building, operating, and maintaining services and related infrastructure that enable Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) across all engineering teams
• implementing and managing these services
• providing tooling, documentation, and support to enable productive use of them
• provide technical leadership
• direct 1-on-1 mentoring
• coaching
• responsible for the professional growth and development of engineers
• apply software engineering solutions to operational problems
• drive the delivery features
• drive changes that will improve our organization overall

Benefits

• Appian offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future.
• Benefits may include health coverage, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), a retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits and more.
• Benefits vary by country—please ask your Talent Acquisition contact for details specific to the location you are applying to.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level