Engineering Manager

BusPatrol

Engineering Manager overseeing high-performing engineering team for innovative student transportation safety solutions. Driving modernization initiatives from monolithic systems to microservices within a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAWSCloudDockerDynamoDBMicroservicesPythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leadership & People Management: Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team, creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
Organizational Growth: Scale the engineering organization to meet business needs while ensuring strong talent development and retention.
Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with U.S.-based leaders, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities and drive business impact.
Technical Direction: Provide guidance on architecture, system design, and best practices as we transition from monolith to microservices and serverless platforms.
Execution & Delivery: Ensure timely, high-quality, and reliable delivery of initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
Engineering Excellence: Champion practices such as AI-Driven development, spec or harness led development methods, CI/CD, observability, secure coding, and test-driven development to raise the technical bar.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Encourage experimentation and adopt modern technologies that improve scalability, performance, and developer productivity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role.
Proven ability to build, grow, and lead high-performing engineering teams.
Experience guiding teams through platform transformations (e.g., monolith to microservices, cloud/serverless adoption).
Strong background in backend systems using Python; exposure to frontend frameworks (React/Angular) a plus.
Solid understanding of AWS cloud services (Lambda, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway) and event-driven architectures.
Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and modern DevOps practices.
Knowledge of computer vision based applications, use of VLM technologies is helpful.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across geographies.
Passion for mentoring and developing future leaders.
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Lead a mission-driven engineering team that’s making roads safer for students and communities.
Play a pivotal role in shaping BusPatrol’s platform modernization strategy and execution.
Build and scale an engineering culture rooted in excellence, innovation, and impact.
Collaborate with a diverse, global leadership team on high-visibility initiatives.
Work with modern, cloud-native, and serverless technologies at scale.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringengineering managementbackend systemsPythonmicroservicesserverlessCI/CDcontainerizationcomputer visionVLM technologies

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstakeholder managementinnovationcontinuous improvementaccountabilitytalent developmentorganizational growth

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science