Engineering Manager: Tech Strategy & Team Leadership

Polluxa, Inc.; Brainerd (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking a software engineering professional to drive design and development across multiple teams in Minnesota. You will review architectures, participate in system design discussions, and guide solution delivery.

You will collaborate with product managers, support agile practices, and promote engineering standards, DevOps, and best practices to improve observability and quality across the platform.

Qualifications

• Design leadership and guidance for technical solution design.
• Strong system design participation and solution delivery alignment.
• Code reading and up-to-date software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.
• Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.
• Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution.
• Has Developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.
• Ensure Code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.
• Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business.
• Supports the team agile practices and learning events / trainings.
• Helps break down barriers for the team.
• Engages in sprint demos; Understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team.
• Partner with Product Manager on Initiatives/ Features/ Epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.
• Collaborates with Product manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups.
• Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas.
• Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products.
• Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal / outcome.
• Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams.
• Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solve collaboratively.
• Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area.
• Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps , objectives and alignments.
• Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap.
• Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.
• Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.
• Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability.
• Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking a software engineering professional to drive design and development across multiple teams in Minnesota. You will review architectures, participate in system design discussions, and guide solution delivery.

You will collaborate with product managers, support agile practices, and promote engineering standards, DevOps, and best practices to improve observability and quality across the platform.