Applications Delivery Lead — Remote Contract

SiFly; Çankaya; On-site; TRY 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

SiFly Aviation is seeking an Applications Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds the software powering our aircraft. You will own delivery and people management for seven engineers (growing to eleven) across Turkey, coordinating with Santa Clara for hardware, flight-test, and manufacturing.

The role emphasizes delivery leadership over sole technical authority. The ideal candidate will drive predictable schedules, clear ownership, and a healthy engineering culture, ensuring

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership or people management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Science or related field.
• Hands-on embedded Linux, robotics, real‑time systems, computer vision knowledge.
• Delivery ownership: turning backlog into a tracked, predictable plan.
• Experience managing senior engineers across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the on-aircraft applications portfolio with clear ownership and milestones.
• Grow and develop the team through coaching, feedback and career paths.
• Partner with the Applications architect to ensure architectural direction influences code.
• Coordinate with hardware, flight-test, manufacturing, cloud, and QA teams to surface dependencies early.
• Support release and flight-test cycles, triage field findings and drive fixes.
• Manage demand from customer demos and new product programs, balancing priorities.

Skills

Team leadership

Delivery ownership

People management

Cross-time-zone

Embedded Linux

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

MAVLink

GStreamer

Camera/Video pipelines

Job description

SiFly Aviation is seeking an Applications Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds the software powering our aircraft. You will own delivery and people management for seven engineers (growing to eleven) across Turkey, coordinating with Santa Clara for hardware, flight-test, and manufacturing.

The role emphasizes delivery leadership over sole technical authority. The ideal candidate will drive predictable schedules, clear ownership, and a healthy engineering culture, ensuring