Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Manor, TX (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Steadily Insurance Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead and scale their engineering organization. The role involves guiding experienced engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving architectural vision to deliver innovative solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Build and Grow Teams: Actively participate in the hiring, onboarding, and retention of exceptional engineering talent.
• Mentorship & Development: Coach, mentor, and foster the career growth of individual engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and performance development plans.
• Team Health & Culture: Cultivate a collaborative team environment where engineers feel empowered to take ownership and contribute their best work.
• Feedback Culture: Champion a culture of open and direct feedback, both positive and constructive, to drive continuous improvement and trust within the team.
• Architectural Guidance: Guide architectural decisions and drive system-level thinking to ensure the scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our software systems.
• Technical Vision: Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for your domain, ensuring alignment with overall company goals.
• Code Quality & Standards: Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in code quality, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.
• Technical Debt Management: Manage technical debt, balancing long-term technical vision with short-term deliverables.
• Roadmap & Strategy: Partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to define roadmaps, set the direction, and drive customer and business impact for your team's products and features.
• Execution & Delivery: Oversee the prioritization, planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects and features with an emphasis on small iterations.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure operational excellence, including support, on-call rotations, deployments, and incident management, embracing a "you build it, you run it" philosophy.
• Data analysis: Use data to drive decision making for evaluating features and success, prioritization, and identifying future opportunities.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate extensively with Product Managers, Insurance Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Science, and other engineering teams to align priorities, ensure visibility of product and engineering initiatives, and incorporate the company’s priorities.
• Strategic Alignment: Work with senior leadership to understand the overall business direction, company metrics, provide technical insights, and contribute to strategic decision-making.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Experienced: This isn't your first rodeo leading high-performing engineering teams. While there's no specific minimum number of years, we expect you to confidently navigate complex technical landscapes, mentor senior engineers, and scale teams.
• Builder: You're passionate about shaping the product through engineering leadership. You'll drive architectural vision, empower your team to build innovative solutions, and foster an environment where engineers contribute thoughtfully to the user experience, rather than just executing pre-defined specs.
• Pragmatic: You prioritize impact and swift delivery. You'll balance team velocity with technical excellence, making thoughtful trade-offs to solve problems effectively. You know when to leverage off-the-shelf solutions and when a custom approach is essential, and you're ready to guide your team in iteratively building and deploying solutions that move the needle.
• Specific Languages: We don't really care if you've worked in our stack before as long as you're happy to learn it. If you're sharp enough to be on this team, you're sharp enough to learn any language or framework quickly.
• Build and Grow Teams: Actively participate in the hiring, onboarding, and retention of exceptional engineering talent.
• Mentorship & Development: Coach, mentor, and foster the career growth of individual engineers through regular one-on-one meetings, constructive feedback, and performance development plans.
• Team Health & Culture: Cultivate a collaborative team environment where engineers feel empowered to take ownership and contribute their best work.
• Feedback Culture: Champion a culture of open and direct feedback, both positive and constructive, to drive continuous improvement and trust within the team.
• Architectural Guidance: Guide architectural decisions and drive system-level thinking to ensure the scalability, resilience, and maintainability of our software systems.
• Technical Vision: Define and champion the technical vision and strategy for your domain, ensuring alignment with overall company goals.
• Code Quality & Standards: Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in code quality, engineering best practices, and operational excellence.
• Technical Debt Management: Manage technical debt, balancing long-term technical vision with short-term deliverables.
• Roadmap & Strategy: Partner with product, engineering, and cross-functional teams to define roadmaps, set the direction, and drive customer and business impact for your team's products and features.
• Execution & Delivery: Oversee the prioritization, planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects and features with an emphasis on small iterations.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure operational excellence, including support, on-call rotations, deployments, and incident management, embracing a 'you build it, you run it' philosophy.
• Data analysis: Use data to drive decision making for evaluating features and success, prioritization, and identifying future opportunities.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate extensively with Product Managers, Insurance Product, Sales, Marketing, Data Science, and other engineering teams to align priorities, ensure visibility of product and engineering initiatives, and incorporate the company’s priorities.
• Strategic Alignment: Work with senior leadership to understand the overall business direction, company metrics, provide technical insights, and contribute to strategic decision-making.
• Candidates are required to be located in or willing to relocate to Austin, TX.
• We are full time in-office.
Company:
We built Steadily to serve landlords who want their insurance to work like other modern tools they love: fast and affordable with excellent service. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Beaverton, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.