Software Engineering Manager - MERN Stack/Java/Spring Boot/Cloud Technologies (Portfolio Companies)

Software Engineering Manager - MERN Stack/Java/Spring Boot/Cloud Technologies (Portfolio Companies)

• Full-time
• IFS Referral Bonus Code: SH
• Job Location: Hybrid

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

What you’ll do:

1. Recruiting, performance management, team culture and engagement, budget and cost control
2. Maintains a high level of technical knowledge, especially deeply within the team’s domain, to accurately engage with the team and validate assumptions, provide guidance, and ensure the team is making sound technology decisions while balancing business and technical constraints
3. Accountable for the team’s execution methodology; full authority to adapt and change methodology while adhering to project controls or governance constraints.
4. Accountable for timely delivery of the team's project commitments
5. Actively balances business and technology objectives when decision making
6. Ensures all members of the team are adhering to Benevity governance/controls/standards
7. Provides visibility into team's execution via performance measures and reporting (weekly, monthly)
8. Aligns team activities with Benevity OKRs and clarifies the link between the work and the OKR as necessary
9. Understands current, unspoken, and future business context for the team and ensures resource allocation, skill development and cost decisions align with business needs
10. Coordinates prioritization and scheduling activities with product management on behalf of the team
11. Ensures that technical team leaders and the team are making decisions that reflect their need to consider documented or undocumented standards, costs, and architectural roadmap
12. Responsible for ensuring their teams commit the time to engineering-led innovation, ensuring that early projects get feedback, and ensuring that promising projects are continued during PI time to the point of cancellation or completion/delivery
13. Ensures that teams are correctly resourced and flags any resourcing issues to senior leadership. Ensures that short-term embedded roles such as Architecture and SRE have the right team member to transfer knowledge to

What you’ll bring:

1. You have a successful track record as a software development manager working with cloud-based technologies
2. You love to build technology teams that deliver exceptional product experiences in high-growth companies
3. You thrive on developing people, building team culture and engagement, and direct functional people leadership
4. You have experience in end-to-end SaaS product development, at scale, in enterprise environments
5. You have a proven experience in the MERN stack with in-depth knowledge of MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js
6. You have a solid understanding of Java, SpringBoot, RESTful API design and integration using microservices, event-driven architecture
7. You have a knowledge of database design and management, including both SQL and NoSQL databases.
8. You have a strategic thinking mind-set with technical expertise, use data for strategic decision making
9. You maintain a high level of technical knowledge, including at a code level, to accurately engage with the team and validate assumptions
10. You provide guidance and ensure the team is making sound technology decisions while balancing business and technical constraints
11. You lead with empathy and have a high degree of self-awareness
12. You help build business and client context for the team to foster a sense of team ownership
13. You are passionate, not pedantic, about development methodologies and are able to adapt and change approaches
14. You see opportunities in working with legacy code and optimizing existing systems
15. You take satisfaction in leaving code, processes, and people better than when you got there
16. You ensure you keep up to date with the latest technologies, and best practices, to ensure solutions continue to be innovative and robust

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community. #Li-Hybrid

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