Engineering Manager

The Software Engineering Manager covers part of a Sr. Software Engineer's function and is responsible for managing a software engineering team and working with the Director or Sr. Manager on the team career growth. The role requires a balance between people management, leadership, and technical responsibilities. Besides driving the team's vision, helping with product design and development, he/she also hires and trains staff.

**Responsibilities**
- Can perform Sr. Software Engineer job functions when needed - Drive the team's vision and improvements within the team's domain
- Oversee the software development processes within the team
- Responsible for architecture and technical direction of his/her team in coordination with the principal engineer and/or architect
- Manage a team of both Software Engineers and SDETs
- Work closely with a principal engineer(s) of the domain, architect(s) and the chief architect to ensure the design and implementation neither create nor contribute to technical debt
- Understand and align with the company's vision and strategic objectives and communicate them to the engineering team
- Effectively communicate company and Engineering organization objectives to team members and implement solutions
- Work closely with the counterpart in Product Management to ensure technical aspects of a project are well understood and included in the requirements, and the requirements are well thought through
- Anticipate, detect project execution issues, and take corrective action in collaboration with the team, Program Manager, and other teams
- Develop team members performance and training plans, ensuring that they align with the company's objectives and the individual's career goals
- Plan and coordinate all the activities of the team
- Ensure operational continuity of the team and proactively escalates any potential risks
- Work with other teams' Software Engineer managers to coordinate cross-team communication
- Participate in the hiring process of Software Engineer and SDET Engineers

**Essential Requirements**
- Minimum Sr. Software Engineer requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience preferable a Linux Environment
- 0-4 years in a leadership role including experience leading a software engineering team, setting priorities and plans to meet business goals and objectives
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Passion for team building and mentoring
- Strong understanding of AGILE and SCRUM methodologies
- Experience with AWS (or any other cloud) development with emphasis on using serverless services
- Experience with Spark/Spark Streaming or Flink
- Experience with various ETL techniques and frameworks

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Proficiency with Jenkins
- Experience using test frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, nose, etc.)
- Experience with high volume web services. Caching, distributed processing, replication, and performance profiling
- Experience testing in Linux
- Experience testing web services (REST)
- Experience testing in both Linux and windows
- Cloud solutions (AWS preferred)
- TDD/BDD
- Experience with Docker

**About TeleSign**:
Telesign is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe our differences help us create a better workplace, a better product, and a better community. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

Telesign also participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Telesign is an Affirmative Action Employer and as part of the commitment to AAP, it will seek to ensure affirmative action to provide equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment, and that all personnel activities, such as the recruitment selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, transfer, layoff and termination processes remain free of illegal discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristics.

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