Software Engineering Manager

Cubic Corporation • Knoxville, TN

23d

About The Position

SUMMARY: Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering for ITS, the Software Engineering Manager is accountable for the end-to-end engineering leadership of the SynchroStudio and SPM product lines. This role serves as a people manager and technical leader, responsible for shaping engineering strategy, ensuring product quality, and delivering on-time and within budget commitments. The Manager will directly oversee technical leads, guide long-term product architecture, and ensure alignment with the broader ITS platform direction. The Software Engineering Manager plays a key role in driving engineering excellence, and ensuring both product teams operate with consistency, transparency, and predictable delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time leading teams in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated success managing engineering managers or technical leads.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), distributed architectures, and scalable enterprise applications.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate across both technical and non‑technical groups.

Nice To Haves

• Experience coordinating global teams or third‑party engineering partners is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering teams for SynchroStudio and SPM, including technical leads, software engineers, and cross-functional contributors.
• Contributes to budget planning, staffing plans, and resource allocation across product teams.
• Ensure engineering deliverables meet committed timelines, quality expectations, and scope objectives.
• Set and maintain the technical vision for SynchroStudio and SPM, ensuring alignment with the ITS platform strategy.
• Oversee architectural decisions, technical designs, and engineering patterns across both product lines.
• Provide technical oversight and ensure solutions meet scalability, quality, security, and maintainability standards
• Partner closely with Product Management to plan roadmaps, define scope, and translate product goals into actionable engineering work
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, agile development processes, and quality standards
• Establish consistent sprint ceremonies, reporting expectations, and performance metrics across all teams.
• Coordinate with UX/UI, QA, DevOps, and Platform Engineering to ensure consistency and alignment across the product ecosystem.
• Conduct routine performance evaluations, provide coaching and feedback, and support long-term career development.
• Communicate engineering progress, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Represent SynchroStudio and SPM engineering in planning discussions, steering committees, and cross-organizational forums

Benefits

• Cubic is dedicated to providing a comprehensive employee benefits program.
• All regular, full-time and part-time employees (working an average of 20 hours per week) are eligible for benefits that are effective on the first day of employment.
• Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan, travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match.
• Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program.
• Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation.
• Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic’s flexible time-off arrangement.
• Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly.
• Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees