Manager, Software Engineering at Firstup

Firstup

Remote - US·8h ago

ManagerFull-timeReactRailsAWSPostgreSQLMicroservicesAgileScrumAI

Salary Range

$163,200 - $220,800 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to lead the delivery of customer-facing AI-enabled Web applications for FirstUp’s SaaS platform hosted on AWS, serving hundreds of enterprise customers and millions of users.

Key Responsibilities

→Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade, customer-facing web applications using modern microservices architectures.
→Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
→Drive the thoughtful adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to increase developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate innovation.
→Partner closely with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
→Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
→Own production health for your teams’ services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a “you build it, you run it” environment.
→Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with defined SLOs and enterprise SLAs.

Requirements

✓Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
✓10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and developing engineering teams.
✓Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise SaaS products at scale.
✓Strong hands-on or architectural experience with AWS (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring).
✓Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design, and microservices architectures.
✓Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and backend frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or equivalent technologies.
✓Proficiency with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
✓Demonstrated success operating in a production-owned, “you build it, you run it” environment.
✓Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills in cross-functional Agile/Scrum environments.