Software Engineering Manager

The Software Engineering Manager at Athena is responsible to lead a team of software engineers and architects, provide technical guidance and manage vendors.

They inspire with open communication and technical expertise; and put the right structures in place to ensure the team will successfully execute on their roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Managing internal priorities.
• Setting goals and clarifying actions to achieve them.
• Coaching and mentoring team members.
• Handling performance management.
• Setting or progressing the technical vision and direction.
• Partnering with Product Managers to develop the product.
• Managing vendors.
• Recruiting.
• Acting as a leader in the company. Bringing positivity, energy and flexibility to help cultivate an amazing engineering culture.
• Collaborating with everyone in an open and constructive way.
• Managing incidents in your space.
• Iterating with the team on practices to continuously improve its ways and remove inefficiencies.

Requirements

• You were once or still are a skilful engineer or architect with high standards, passion for quality and a handful of years of experience under your belt.
• You have demonstrable leadership and management experience.
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• You have experience with micro-services. Bonus points if can navigate your way through Salesforce and APEX.
• You don’t shy away from rolling up the sleeves to support your team troubleshoot issues in production, help determine root causes and propose the most appropriate solution for the situation.
• You are able to collaborate with software engineers, architects, product owners and other IT staff members in order to understand the goals, derive/adapt requirements and implement solutions.
• You are comfortable working in an Agile, fast-paced DevOps environment.
• You are a problem-solver and embrace the can-do.
• You can attract and retain talent.
• You can develop people inside and outside the team.
• You speak candidly without being rude.
• You preferably have BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field.

What a successful candidate looks like

• Experience with public cloud providers is a plus. AWS is a plus plus.
• Strong design and analytical skills.
• Capacity to think holistically and see the bigger picture.
• Solid writing and communication skills.
• Experience or interest in banking.
• Our Athena culture goals resonate deeply with you:
• Break what’s broken
• Lead with heart
• Be straight up
• Move at speed