Senior Engineering Manager - FlightAware (Remote)

RTX•Bellevue, WA

6d•Remote

About The Position

Are you prepared to lead a team of talented engineers responsible for numerous web-based products that generate billions of views for industry partners and consumers? FlightAware, part of the Connected Aviation Solutions unit of Collins Aerospace, has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 360+ million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 individual data feeds - 2 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large. As an Engineering Manager, Web at FlightAware you’ll provide leadership, technical guidance, and product vision to a team of web engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and develop services, products, and infrastructure used by thousands of customers each day. FlightAware’s product and service portfolio is expansive, and you will operate across FlightAware’s industry-leading website, paid aviation products, customer-facing APIs, integral systems like authentication, billing, and authorization, and more. In this role, you will lead, support, and inspire the engineers in your team. As a hands-on leader, you’ll help them fulfill technical, operational, and business requirements inside and outside of the code. You’ll work alongside senior engineers and partners across Product, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Engineering to guide architecture and delivery of major infrastructure and product improvements. The ideal candidate will be able to solve complex technical challenges while delivering incredible improvements to product reliability and quality. As part of FlightAware Engineering, you’ll be part of a highly collaborative, ambitious, and future-reaching organization. We attract engineering leaders with a passion for aviation and data. Our team champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industry-leading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and engineering support in order to create a productive and highly effective team that anticipates the future and leads by example. You’ll get to learn alongside talented senior engineers and share your own expertise. Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at FlightAware. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
Software engineering leadership experience working with and managing engineers across several specialties creating, delivering, and operating highly reliable, scalable services and products.
Individual contributor engineering experience with fluency in HTML, CSS, and Javascript/ES6, plus experience with Typescript, Go, Next.js, React, Astro, Tailwind, Daisy, NX, or PostgreSQL. You have a demonstrated ability to represent your team and the work to audiences with differing levels of technical fluency.
Experience with system/software architecture design, building large web applications and interactive experiences.
Hiring manager experience with the full recruitment lifecycle including attracting, recruiting, and retaining top engineering talent.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud technologies like AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, or similar.
Experience with microservice and API design, such as OpenAPI specifications and graphql concepts and schemas.
Experience in 2D/3D GIS, mapping technologies, and high-performance map rendering in a web environment (such as Maplibre, http://Deck.GL , D3, or similar).
Experience with cloud native methods, architectures, and technologies, like DevSecOps, Open Telemetry, Docker, Kubernetes, Knative, Grafana, Helm, or Istio.
Expertise in system reliability or front-end user interface design and implementation.
Execution focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity. Have worked successfully in a small company or an entrepreneurial environment.
Interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence. Deeply empathetic and caring. You possess a willingness to empower and inspire commitment and a positive attitude in a team.
Ability and willingness to be hands-on when needed.
An agile mindset with a focus on learning, rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and an openness to new approaches.
You are a private pilot, you are looking to pursue your private pilot license, or have a passion for aviation.

Responsibilities

Lead and support a culture of collaboration, critique, and candid feedback.
Mentor and grow engineers to foster an extremely high-performing team.
Contribute architectural solutions and code implementations at the senior engineer level as part of your hands-on work with the team (code-review, backlog engineer participation, jump starting new projects, taking on tickets). You will split your time fairly evenly across people management and coding.
Work with stakeholders and product owners to define roadmaps.
Lead teams that ship major new improvements to a visible and important product or area.
Collaborate with product owners and engineering leadership to break down complex projects into smaller pieces and iterate on their design and implementation.
Develop your team’s skills and advance their careers. You won’t shy away from performance conversations, and you recognize the relationship between objective feedback and career growth.
Assist with incident response, manage on-call rotations, SLA creation and management, and runbook creation.
Work with the Talent Acquisition & HR teams to interview, onboard, and retain top talent.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
Tuition reimbursement program
Student Loan Repayment Program
Life insurance and disability coverage
Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
Adoption Assistance
Autism Benefit
Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
And more!