Manager, Software Engineering

Firstup

31d • $160,000 - $200,000 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Manager, Software Engineering to lead the delivery of customer-facing AI-enabled Web applications for FirstUp’s SaaS platform hosted on AWS, serving hundreds of enterprise customers and millions of users.
This role blends technical leadership, people management, and operational ownership. While hands-on coding is preferred but not required, you are expected to be deeply engaged in technical design and code reviews, ensuring solutions meet high standards for scalability, reliability, security, and quality. You will lead 8–10 geographically distributed software and quality engineers (full time employees and contractors), delivering enterprise-grade products in a “you build it, you run it” environment.
You are a strategic, results-oriented leader who builds a strong engineering culture and consistently delivers customer value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and developing engineering teams.
• Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale.
• Strong hands-on or architectural experience with AWS (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design, and microservices architectures.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or equivalent technologies.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Demonstrated success operating in a production-owned, “you build it, you run it” environment.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills in cross-functional Agile/Scrum environments.

Nice To Haves

• Experience scaling and evolving Enterprise SaaS platforms through periods of growth or technical transformation.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows.
• Exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, customer-facing web applications using modern microservices architectures.
• Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Drive the thoughtful adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to increase developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate innovation.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Own production health for your teams’ services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a “you build it, you run it” environment.
• Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with defined SLOs and enterprise SLAs.

Benefits

• excellent PTO program
• great health benefits
• a casual and friendly environment
• remote work
• a leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally

What This Job Offers

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