Manager Software Engineering
About The Position
The Manager, Software Engineering will lead, scale, and inspire teams building core digital products that support Securitas Guarding services. The role supports digital product delivery and engineering operations by modernizing engineering practices, improving developer productivity, strengthening operational excellence, and enabling teams to deliver high-quality software at scale. The position calls for a pragmatic, forward-thinking engineering leader who combines people-first leadership with a focus on delivery, customer outcomes, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The position is hybrid, with two days per week onsite for employees within reasonable commuting distance of the designated office, or fully remote for candidates outside that commuting distance. Minimal travel is required, with up to two domestic business trips per year.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and scaling Agile software engineering organizations, including coaching senior engineers and technical leaders.
- At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience.
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud-native architectures, web technologies, APIs, and mobile application ecosystems.
- Experience building and operating reliable production systems with observability, monitoring, incident response, and service ownership practices.
- Experience evaluating and incorporating AI-assisted development tools and workflows into engineering practices.
- People-first leadership with the ability to inspire, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering teams.
- Product mindset focused on customer outcomes, business value, and solving real user problems.
- Strong ownership mindset focused on accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to balance speed, quality, technical strategy, and delivery commitments.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
- Experience with SQL and Snowflake.
- Experience with Kotlin and/or Swift.
- Experience with GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD platforms.
- Experience with application monitoring and observability platforms.
- Experience with DevEx analytics tools.
Responsibilities
- Mentor engineering leaders and individual contributors, fostering ownership, accountability, and professional growth.
- Champion a product mindset by helping teams understand customer needs, measure outcomes, and solve meaningful user problems.
- Mature automated testing and deployment pipelines, improve development environments and tooling, and responsibly adopt AI-assisted engineering practices.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, including employees, contractors, and external development partners, to ensure alignment, quality, and delivery excellence.
- Establish lightweight governance and predictable delivery practices that enable speed, consistency, and proactive risk and dependency management.
- Drive reliability, availability, and operational readiness through observability, monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Weekly pay
- Comprehensive benefits for eligible employees
- Paid training and professional development
- Career advancement opportunities
- Employee recognition programs
- Supportive and inclusive work environment
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Paid time off
- 401(k) or retirement savings plan
- Employee assistance program
- Additional voluntary benefits, where applicable
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
