Manager, Software Development

What You’ll Do SimpliSafe’s Device Cloud Services team is on a mission to level up the cloud-based systems that empower customers to interact with their home security systems from anywhere in the world. We’re looking for a motivated, experienced Software Engineering Manager to help lead this team as we design, develop and maintain critical software solutions. We’re a backend team solving large-scale distributed problems, ensuring customers have real-time control and visibility into their security systems; because we deal with life safety, reliability, simplicity, and performance are our key pillars.

Primary Responsibilities Include Partner with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and upcoming business priorities. Guide the team in breaking down work, ensuring we’re delivering value quickly and incrementally. Ensure the team is striking a balance between delivering new features and maintaining the health of our technology, ensuring customers can always count on our performance, reliability and security.

Manage the engineers on the team, providing real-time feedback and helping them grow in their careers. Ensure we’re maintaining high technical standards through code reviews and direct mentoring. Collaborate with senior engineers on this and adjacent teams to ensure there’s a cohesive vision and roadmap for our systems.

What You'll Bring 8+ years of industry experience building software solutions, including 2+ years of managing software engineers Experience leading Agile delivery teams Extensive experience building and running cloud based microservices and distributed systems Experience with at least 2 major programming languages and extensive experience with one (C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C++, Go, Python, etc.) Passion, curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and grow Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP Excellent problem-solving skills and proven track record to break down complexity Familiarity with the Agile Scrum process What Values You’ll Share Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them. Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar. No Ego - Maintaining a “no job too small” attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.

One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success. Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed. Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment. #J-18808-Ljbffr