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Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
The Lead Software Engineering Manager is a strategic technical leader responsible for overseeing multiple engineering teams that develop and maintain Business Wire’s customer-facing and internal applications. This role focuses on improving project scoping and tracking, optimizing development processes, and leading efforts across cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
- →Lead and mentor multiple teams of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and operational excellence.
- →Help define and drive technical strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals while balancing scalability, performance, and resiliency.
- →Partner with product management and senior leadership to influence roadmap planning and strategic decision-making.
- →Establish project planning, tracking, and reporting frameworks and best-practices across teams.
- →Identify opportunities to improve scrum/agile practices.
- →Build relationships and improve workflows with teams such as Security, QA, Product, and stakeholders.
- →Establish and refine engineering best practices, ensuring teams deliver high-quality and sustainable product.
- →Contribute to process improvements cross release management, quality automation, and developer workflows.
- →Guide engineering managers, principal and senior engineers in leadership, execution, and cross-team collaboration.
- →Improve application lifecycle maintenance processes and contribute to a culture of proactiveness.
Requirements
- ✓At least 8-12 years of experience in software engineering, with 3-5 years in a technical leadership role that includes previous people management.
- ✓Proven experience in leading multiple engineering teams and scaling software development organizations.
- ✓Strong background in distributed systems, cloud computing (AWS or similar), and modern API development.
- ✓Up-to-date with current technologies to inform decision-making and technology adoption with focus on modern programming languages such as Node.js, React, Typescript, GoLang, Python 3, or others.
- ✓Expertise in optimizing engineering workflows, managing cross-team dependencies, and driving large-scale technical initiatives.
- ✓Ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic decision-making.
- ✓Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and business teams.
- ✓Track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent in a fast-paced environment.
- ✓Proven record of shipping high-quality products that are maintainable, resilient, and performant.
Benefits
- ★Ability to work remotely
- ★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!
