Software Engineering Manager – Foundry

Duties/Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers building Signal, the software that drives Foundry. 

• Global Collaboration: Lead a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with developers based in both the US and India. 

• Career Development: Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career development for team members. 

• Hiring and Onboarding: Participate in hiring efforts, including sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding new engineers, hiring and developing for judgment, product sense, and verification skills rather than raw output. 

• Team Culture: Foster a healthy team culture built on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. 

• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with product management and business stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable development plans. 

• Delivery Ownership: Own delivery timelines and ensure the team ships high-quality software on schedule. 

• Technical Guidance: Guide technical discussions and help the team make sound architectural decisions. 

• Removing Obstacles: Remove obstacles and shield the team from distractions so they can focus on building. 

• Development Process: Establish and refine development processes and AI-assisted workflows, balancing agility with predictability. 

• AI Leadership: Champion fluent, responsible use of AI tools and coding agents as a force multiplier, so the team delivers faster while staying firmly accountable for review, testing, quality, and security. 

• AI Workflows and Standards: Shape the team’s AI workflows, tooling, and standards, and keep improving them as the landscape shifts. 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, customer success, and other engineering teams. 

• Technical Engagement: Stay close enough to the codebase, and to how the team works with AI, to give meaningful input during code reviews and technical planning. 

Education and Experience

• Minimum Required – 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2 years in a management or team-lead role. 

• Preferred – 8+ years of experience in software development, with 3+ years managing teams building web applications and experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or ERP systems. 

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Programming Languages and Technologies: Experience managing teams building web applications, ideally in Elixir/Phoenix or similar modern stacks, with the ability to provide meaningful technical guidance. 

• AI-Assisted Development: Fluency with modern AI development tools, and a clear point of view on how they change the way teams build, hire, and measure impact. 

• Development Practices: Strong understanding of software development practices, including testing, CI/CD, code review, and Agile methodologies. 

• People Management: Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent, with a genuine interest in the growth and well-being of the people you manage. 

• Delivery Management: Experience managing delivery across multiple products or initiatives simultaneously. 

• Trust and Collaboration: A track record of building trust with both the team and cross-functional partners. 

• Communication: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Adaptability: Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information. 

• APIs and Infrastructure: Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs, database design, and cloud infrastructure is a plus. 

• Domain Knowledge: Experience in manufacturing or supply chain is a plus.