Software Engineering Manager

Facilities Management Express • Columbus, OH

23h • Remote

About The Position

Facilities Management eXpress (FMX) is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a Core Team and help shape its product, people, and engineering culture. This is a player-coach role: the manager coaches and mentors software engineers, clarifies priorities and expectations, supports their professional and technical growth, and contributes hands-on code, fixes, features, and triage work alongside the team. The manager partners with product, design, QA, and engineering leaders to align work with business goals and deliver high-quality software for customers.

The role includes guiding architecture and staying familiar with the team’s systems, removing blockers, and championing operational excellence across observability, CI/CD health, and production readiness. The manager will help FMX build software in an AI-first environment by evaluating tools and setting practices and standards for AI-assisted coding, code review, and testing. They will also participate in engineering leadership decisions, help evolve processes, collaborate on priorities and long-term vision, and support hiring and onboarding.

FMX is remote-first, with an office available for use and two company-wide events each year. The role requires working Eastern Time hours to attend daily team meetings. Working hours are described as flexible. FMX develops cloud-based SaaS facility maintenance and management software for education, property management, manufacturing, and other markets.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Prior experience as a software engineer, ideally in SaaS.
• Enjoys writing code and will regularly contribute fixes, features, and non-mission-critical triage work.
• Hands-on experience with AI-first development, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or agentic workflows, and a point of view on best practices to teach others.
• Ability to work Eastern Time hours and join daily team meetings; candidates should be based in or able to work on Eastern Time.
• Ability to coach and grow engineers at every career stage.
• Strong, empathetic, and clear communication skills.
• Experience improving engineering processes and development workflows.
• Familiarity with agile practices and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to think strategically while attending to day-to-day execution details.
• Commitment to building inclusive, psychologically safe teams that value continuous learning and an excellent developer experience.
• Enthusiasm for FMX’s mission and alignment with its core pillars: Teamwork, Excellence, and Integrity.

Nice To Haves

• Native mobile experience with Swift or Kotlin.
• Cloud infrastructure experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform.
• Containerization experience with Docker.
• CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance experience.
• Observability experience, including logging, metrics, traces, and alerting, or SIEM experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a Core Team by clarifying engineers’ roles, responsibilities, goals, processes, priorities, and expectations.
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career guidance, and advocate for engineers’ professional and technical development.
• Foster a trusting, accountable, inclusive team culture centered on continuous improvement and customer impact.
• Remove blockers and reduce friction so the team can work efficiently.
• Stay technically close to the team’s systems, guide architecture decisions, and directly unblock engineers.
• Contribute hands-on code, fixes, features, and triage work that is not mission-critical.
• Champion operational excellence, including observability, CI/CD health, and production readiness.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted coding, code review, and testing tools, and establish standards for their use.
• Contribute to engineering leadership discussions, decisions, and process evolution.
• Partner with product and design leads on priorities and long-term vision.
• Help hiring teams identify, recruit, and onboard engineering talent.

Benefits

• Opportunity to influence the direction and future of engineering teams, the flagship product, and the company, with room for advancement.
• Collaborative, close-knit culture emphasizing transparency, continuous improvement, and work/life balance.
• Opportunity to hire and work with a highly talented team.
• Professional and personal development opportunities, including industry-expert advisors, leadership training, team-building activities, a training budget, and an incentive program.
• Engineering team members dedicate 10% of their time to learning or working on projects that interest them.
• Flexible working hours.
• Remote-first work arrangement, with access to an office as needed and two company-wide events each year.
• Free snacks, beverages, and an office kegerator when working from the office.

What This Job Offers

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