Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences – and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
The Senior Software Engineering Manager will manage multiple teams of Engineers who successfully deliver new products and services that delight our customers. This person is an excellent communicator and has a desire to own and improve our products. They will lead other managers and play a critical role guiding our digital transformation journey.
- Lead and grow an efficient and high performing diverse software development organization with a culture of agile development and continuous improvement and learning
- Promote an inclusive team culture that challenges and empowers everyone to do the best work of their career
- Identify organizational optimizations that will help improve development speed and quality
- Work with the leaders on your team to ensure technical best practices are constantly developed and enforced
- Champion engineering excellence, establishing business metrics, and drive continuous operational improvement
- Work independently and suggest ideas, solutions and technical improvements for products and systems to increase revenue, reduce time to market, and make our systems more capable of adapting to shifting business requirements
- Provide escalation support for on call support rotation
- Effectively communicate feedback and decisions to your internal team and external partners
- Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams
- Own the success of your team’s product and deliver quantifiable results in a timely manner
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a related field
- 4+ years of managing high performing agile teams engineering teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud native environments
- 2+ years experience leading managers
- 8+ years of full-stack software development experience
- Experienced with Javascript based frameworks
- Experienced in AWS development with hands-on knowledge lambda, S3, and other AWS services
- Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.
- Proven ability to recruit and retain world-class engineers.
- Excellent managerial skills and interpersonal skills; effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering, ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
- Knowledge of Java and standard packages/libraries
- Exposure to test automation: TDD, unit/integration/functional testing
- Exposure to web/cloud application design and architectural principles
- Exposure to microservice based architecture
- Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases
- Exposure to container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Ability to work in an agile collaborative environment
- The base salary range for this position is $180K to $230K. Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data. Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
- Business Wire’s total rewards include:
- Ability to work remotely 100%
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
Desired but not required
At this time, Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
What We Offer
Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.