Engineering Manager

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning and industry favorite tools TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.

Engineering Manager - BugSnag

• You will manage two Frontend development teams that build our BugSnag Dashboard
• Work with highly performing teams using modern practices and technologies
• Teams are working on codebases developed in TypeScript/React and Ruby on Rails

Product intro

Bugsnag is the trusted software stability "command center" for over 5,000 engineering teams worldwide, including Airbnb, Slack, Pinterest, Docker, EA and Microsoft. We process over 1 billion crash reports daily and performance measures from 85,000 applications, and empower our customers to make data-driven decisions on when to focus on building new features, or when to fix bugs.

Go to our product page if you want to know more about BugSnag.

You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊

About the role

As an Engineering Manager you will promote a culture of collaboration and innovation leading to success. You will lead, coach, grow and support engineers, specifically developing the BugSnag Product to support our Observability Business. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to lead high-performance frontend teams through better business outcomes with high quality and efficiency. This role is key to promoting a culture of collaboration and innovation leading to success. Your team members are mainly remote within the UK and Ireland, but is expected to grow to include other SmartBear locations and remote workers.

• Take a proactive approach to improving the entire software development life-cycle.
• Leverage Agile best practices to manage the delivery of software through continuous deployment, integration and automated testing.
• Coach and grow your engineers to reach their full potential.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, building relationships to deliver on company goals.
• Work effectively with product managers, engineers and leadership to grow your team and most effectively meet aggressive business outcomes.
• Determine processes and metrics to ensure products are market ready.
• Cultivate a culture of curiosity, ingenuity, partnership, speed, innovation and excellence while continuously elevating quality.
• Writing code is not required, but you must be able to evaluate your engineers talent/output.

We are looking for you if you have:

• 3+ years managing agile software development teams
• Experience in SaaS based company with a multi-site teams preferred
• Frontend software development experience and ability to coach others
• Knowledge and experience with cloud technologies
• Current experience using Agile methodologies
• Proven experience leading multiple scrum teams during the entire software development life-cycle
• Ability to turn high level requirements into actionable plans with projected target dates
• Curious problem solver
• People development
• English on at least B2 level

Why you should join the SmartBear crew:

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know?

• Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.
• We’ve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.

 

SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status.

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