Sr. Mgr, Software Engineering

GitHub, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to develop foundational components of the Copilot Platform. The role involves high-impact collaboration across distributed teams, utilizing strong management skills to drive innovation in AI and empower team development, while promoting good engineering practices.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning opportunities

Excellent benefits

Remote-first work environment

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Software Engineering with production software experience.
• 1+ years in direct or indirect leadership roles.
• Experience developing strategies in partnership with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to solve critical problems.
• Unblock obstacles for team members and ensure quality outcomes.
• Conduct regular feedback sessions with direct reports.

Skills

Software Engineering

Project Management

Technical Leadership

Effective Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Associate’s Degree in Computer Science

Job description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager to help build foundational components of the Copilot Platform. This is an exciting role in a fast paced environment with high impact. A manager working on this team needs to have a strong balance of people, technical, and project management skills - flexing their skill sets to empower the team to create innovative solutions in the AI space.

Responsibilities

A day in the life:

Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work both asynchronously and real-time. Your typical week would include:

• Collaborating with internal and external engineering teams, product management, platform customers, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve

• Unblocking obstacles for your team members as they solve GitHub’s most critical problems, often via real-time conversations in Slack or Zoom, and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects to efficiently collaborate with teams in disparate timezones

• Communicating effectively to support internal users, and inform stakeholders of progress as well as system status and team health

• Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression, coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement

• Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, resilient systems, and high quality code

• Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes; balancing speed to market with future velocity

• Leveraging state of the art AI tooling to maximize productivity for yourself and your direct reports

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages

  • OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages

  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages

  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

  • OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ year(s) direct and/or indirect people management or leadership experience.

• 1+ year(s) experience developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and stakeholders.
• 1+ year)s) experience communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion

Preferred qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes

• Experience managing platform teams

• Experience with delivering products in the artificial intelligence space

• Experience working with research or applied scientists

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!