Firstup

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Firstup

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $230,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, customer-facing web applications using modern microservices architectures.
  • Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
  • Drive the thoughtful adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to increase developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate innovation.
  • Partner closely with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Own production health for your teams’ services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a “you build it, you run it” environment.
  • Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with defined SLOs and enterprise SLAs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years managing and developing engineering teams.
  • Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale.
  • Strong hands-on or architectural experience with AWS (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring).
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design, and microservices architectures.
  • Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or equivalent technologies.
  • Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
  • Demonstrated success operating in a production-owned, “you build it, you run it” environment.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills in cross-functional Agile/Scrum environments.
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Hard Skills & Tools
microservices architectureGenerative AIAWSdistributed systemscloud-native designReactRuby on RailsPostgreSQLAgileSaaS
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationdecision-makingmentoringaccountabilitycontinuous improvementcollaborationproblem-solvingscalabilityreliability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering