Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Noctua Technology is seeking a dynamic Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers. This role involves overseeing technical delivery, ensuring quality execution, and fostering professional development within the team.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Leadership and Technical Program Managers to refine project scope, ensure team priorities align with business objectives, and manage resource allocation for assigned programs
- Provide hands-on technical direction for the structural design and development of new software systems or revisions. Implement and enforce policies to ensure the development of efficient and scalable software architecture
- Serve as a technical escalation point for engineering teams, ensuring roadblocks are addressed quickly and effectively
- Own the team’s delivery process, identify and mitigate technical risks, and ensure on-time, high-quality execution of project commitments
- Work closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to analyze requirements and understand constraints, dependencies, and business needs, and use this information to estimate project feasibility, resources, and timelines
- Define and establish engineering best practices, standards, and quality assurance processes across client projects
- Drive the adoption of reusable components, architectural patterns, and toolsets to increase efficiency and consistency across client projects
- Conduct technical reviews and audits to ensure the quality, security, and scalability of custom solutions
- Act as a primary technical point of contact for clients, translating complex needs into clear technical requirements and development plans
- Partner with leadership to support pre-sales activities including scope definition, technical proposals, and effort estimation
- Work closely with Technical Program Managers to communicate project progress, risks, and changes
- Serve as the primary people manager for a team of engineers, conducting regular 1:1 meetings, supporting performance management processes, and supporting personalized career development plans for engineers
- Support hiring and onboarding of new team members as the team grows
- Champion team culture, driving a healthy balance of productivity, innovation, and collaboration
Skills
- 5-8 years of progressive experience in software engineering, with at least 2-3 years in a formal management or team lead role
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Demonstrated success in managing, mentoring, and developing a team of 5+ software engineers
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and modern software project management methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
- Excellent communication skills - able to interface with executives, clients, and engineers
- Hands-on technical background in one or more of: application development, cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), data engineering, full-stack software development, or AI/ML
- Experience delivering projects for US Federal Government and/or Defense agencies
- Any of the below cloud certifications: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Digital Leader
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