Senior Engineering Manager

Lensa; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 85,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager to lead an engineering team focused on enhancing Lodging features. This role involves collaborating with product and design teams to craft roadmaps and manage development from concept to delivery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering management and a strong background in software development practices. You will be responsible for mentoring team members, driving process improvements, and ensuring technical excellence. If you are passionate about building high-performing teams and delivering quality products, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience required.
• 8+ years of experience within engineering teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team to build and maintain Lodging features.
• Ensure team meets delivery commitments and foster a strong culture.

Skills

Engineering Team Management

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Software Development Practices

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master’s in Computer Science

Tools

APIs

Micro-services

Cloud-native Computing

Distributed Computing

Job description

Job Title: Senior Manager - Egencia Lodging

Company: Amex GBT

Location: Remote

What You'll Do:

1. Lead an engineering team to build, operate, streamline, and maintain our Lodging features to meet our customers' evolving needs.
2. Partner with product and design counterparts to understand requirements and priorities, solution business problems, craft roadmaps, and manage development from concept through delivery and operations.
3. Create and maintain accurate project schedules, as well as driving tasks to completion.
4. Ensure your team meets their delivery commitments through an effective sprint planning process and daily standups; facilitate team-owned process improvements.
5. Hire, mentor, coach, and retain a collaborative, best-of-class engineering team.
6. Foster career growth and a strong team culture of inclusivity, product ownership and quality, technical and operational excellence; lead by example.
7. Maintain technical excellence by performing Architecture Review, Design Review, Code Review, and Security Review to ensure compliance with standards.
8. Demonstrate leadership in mentoring, establishing standards in documentation and clean code.

What We're Looking For:

1. Bachelor's / Master’s in Computer Science or related technical field.
2. 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
3. 8+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to work well within and across software engineering teams, as well as other functions of the company.
5. Excellent skills at encouraging working relationships and driving teamwork.
6. Experience in working with leadership across multiple product and engineering areas.
7. Experience designing or architecting highly scalable and adaptable systems using APIs, micro-services, cloud-native and distributed computing.
8. Expertise of professional software engineering practices and methodologies of the software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
9. Experience leading teams and delivering products using multi-tier web services infrastructure.

Location: United States

Salary: The US national annual base salary range for this position is from $85,000 to $170,000. The national range provided includes the base salary that Egencia expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

This role is for Egencia LLC (“Egencia” or the “Company”), a member of the American Express Global Business Travel family of companies.