Remote Software Engineering Manager - Lead High-Impact Team

Commerce; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is a remote-first company seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join its fully remote engineering team. You will build and lead a high-performing software engineering group, and empower engineers to achieve exceptional results while balancing roadmap delivery with system performance, reliability and security.

You’ll collaborate with product managers and stakeholders across offices to align objectives with business goals, promote engineering best practices, and mentor engineers to

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building systems in PHP, Go, Python, TypeScript, Angular, Ruby, etc.
• 2+ years managing engineering teams, including demonstrated track record of growing senior talent and building team structure from the ground up
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Cloud Computing desirable
• Experience with relational database systems and external services integrations
• Experience with backend and frontend (UI) development
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading sprint ceremonies
• Experience with SaaS platforms or Cloud Computing highly desirable
• Solid UNIX / LAMP knowledge (ideally 2+ years working experience with PHP, MySQL, and Linux)

Responsibilities

• Build an open, positive and energized culture
• Build, lead and hire a high-caliber team of software engineers
• Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack
• Lead and inspire your team and other engineers to build the best ecommerce products on the planet
• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
• Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability and security
• Be both a highly technical hands-on coder and an effective people manager
• Hold your own in technical discussion, be a subject matter expert and have strategic influence
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and stakeholders in all corporate offices to promote communication and coordination
• Establish team objectives in alignment with business goals
• Organize and facilitate regular 1:1’s with your team for coaching and mentoring
• Execution of performance improvement plans for under‑performers
• Continued enforcement of best practices to improve engineering quality and efficiency
• Establish a sense of urgency and direction; set expectations
• Create and participate in an on‑call rotation for incident management

Skills

PHP

Go

Python

TypeScript

Angular

Ruby

Agile

Leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

MySQL

Linux/UNIX

RabbitMQ

gRPC

Caching solutions

Job description

Commerce is a remote-first company seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join its fully remote engineering team. You will build and lead a high-performing software engineering group, and empower engineers to achieve exceptional results while balancing roadmap delivery with system performance, reliability and security.

You’ll collaborate with product managers and stakeholders across offices to align objectives with business goals, promote engineering best practices, and mentor engineers to