Remote Engineering Manager — Lead High-Impact Teams

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 185,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Happy Returns is seeking a Software Engineering Manager I to lead an engineering team, oversee day-to-day operations, and drive productivity while maintaining high standards for code quality and architecture.

You will recruit, mentor, and review engineers, partner with product managers, and shape system design to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure software. This fully remote role supports a national scope and embraces a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Have held the position of a senior engineer for at least two years.
• Have led a team as a technical lead/team lead for at least one year.
• Over six years of experience developing and testing web applications.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders to ensure engineers are exceeding the needs of the business.
• The ability to coach engineers in shipping high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code in a high-velocity environment.
• A strong interest in joining a highly collaborative environment and working daily with Developers, Product Managers, DevOps Engineers, and QA Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Constantly improve team productivity, refine agile processes, and create methods to increase efficiency.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of an engineering team (6-8 direct reports).
• Lead the effort of recruiting new outstanding engineers.
• Train new software engineers on our best practices, standards, culture, and policies.
• Perform personnel management tasks including performance reviews, mentoring, and planning each direct report's career growth.
• Actively participate in system architecture discussions and technical design reviews to ensure scalability, reliability, and security of the Happy Returns system.
• Enforce clean code and excellent coding practices by conducting thoughtful code reviews.
• Participate in bi-weekly engineering lunch & learns to promote growth and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to meet customer needs in the simplest possible way.
• Help build and maintain a world-class technology system to achieve our mission.

Skills

Agile leadership

Team leadership

Mentoring

Performance reviews

Code reviews

System architecture

Hiring

Communication

Collaborative work

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

Happy Returns is seeking a Software Engineering Manager I to lead an engineering team, oversee day-to-day operations, and drive productivity while maintaining high standards for code quality and architecture.

You will recruit, mentor, and review engineers, partner with product managers, and shape system design to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure software. This fully remote role supports a national scope and embraces a collaborative culture.