Software Engineering Manager

Facilities Management Express • Columbus, OH

21h • $150,000 - $190,000 • Remote

About The Position

Facilities Management eXpress (FMX) is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a Core Team. This player-coach role combines people management and technical contribution: the manager coaches and mentors software engineers, clarifies priorities and expectations, supports professional and technical growth, and contributes code through fixes, features, bug triage, and other non-mission-critical work. The role partners with product, design, QA, and engineering leaders to align work with business goals and deliver high-quality software while fostering an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.

The manager stays close to the team’s systems to guide architecture decisions and help unblock engineers. They champion operational excellence, including observability, CI/CD health, and production readiness, and establish practices and standards for AI-assisted development, code review, and testing. They also contribute to engineering leadership decisions and process evolution, work with product and design leads on priorities and long-term vision, and help recruit and onboard engineering talent.

FMX is a remote-first company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, though the role requires working Eastern Time hours to attend daily team meetings. The company develops a cloud-based SaaS facility maintenance and management product serving 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.
• A builder’s mindset and willingness to write code and contribute fixes, features, and 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 that can be taught to others.
• Based in or able to work Eastern Time hours to attend daily team meetings.
• Proven 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 pillars of 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.
• Experience with observability, including logging, metrics, traces, and alerting, or SIEM.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a Core Team, clarifying each engineer’s role, responsibilities, goals, and team processes.
• Communicate changes to practices, priorities, and expectations.
• Provide regular coaching, feedback, and career guidance, and advocate for engineers’ professional and technical growth.
• Foster trust, accountability, continuous improvement, and an inclusive culture in which engineers feel valued and connected to FMX’s mission.
• Keep the team engaged with meaningful problems and help engineers understand the customer impact of their work.
• Remove blockers so the team can work efficiently with minimal friction.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the team’s systems, guide architecture decisions, and directly help unblock engineers.
• Champion operational excellence, including observability, CI/CD health, and production readiness.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted coding, code review, and testing tools, and set 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.
• Contribute code regularly through fixes, features, bug triage, and non-mission-critical work.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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