Software Engineering Manager

What's the role?

In this role you will:

• Lead and manage a team of software engineers across multiple seniority levels including Lead Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers and Software Engineers, fostering a high-performance and growth-oriented engineering culture
• Own end-to-end delivery, execution predictability and operational excellence for one or more engineering teams delivering distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Leadership and globally distributed stakeholders to translate business priorities into technical execution plans
• Drive technical and organizational execution through senior technical leaders, ensuring architecture, design and implementation align with engineering standards and long-term platform strategy
• Establish team goals, delivery plans, staffing strategies and execution mechanisms to meet roadmap commitments with high quality and predictability
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers and technical leaders through regular feedback, career development planning, and performance management
• Drive engineering best practices across design reviews, code quality, testing, observability, operational readiness and incident management
• Ensure teams make balanced trade-offs across speed, scalability, reliability, maintainability and cost while delivering customer/business value
• Identify organizational, technical and process bottlenecks; drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve engineering effectiveness and team velocity
• Influence technical strategy and roadmap planning across multiple teams/domains in collaboration with architects and senior engineering leaders
• Champion a data-driven engineering culture through use of metrics, KPIs and delivery/quality insights to improve execution and outcomes
• Drive hiring, workforce planning and team scaling strategies aligned to business growth and engineering needs

Who are you?

You are an Engineering Manager with passion for innovation and technology. Further you have the following:

• 10 years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on technical depth in backend/distributed systems
• 3 years of people management experience leading engineering teams with senior technical talent
• Strong technical foundation in Java / Scala / Python and cloud-native distributed systems architecture
• Proven experience delivering large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms on AWS
• Demonstrated success managing senior engineers/technical leads while driving execution through delegation rather than direct coding
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across product, architecture and executive leadership
• Experience building high-performing engineering teams in globally distributed environments.
• Understanding of AI-assisted SDLC practices including prompt engineering for design, code generation, testing, documentation, and refactoring
• Ability to drive AI adoption within engineering teams and improve developer productivity through effective use of AI tools

What we offer

HERE offers an opportunity to work in a cutting-edge technology environment with challenging problems to solve! You can make a direct impact on delivery of company´s strategic goals and the freedom to decide how to perform your work. We will support you in delivering your day-to-day tasks and achieving your personal goals and developing your skills. Personal development is highly encouraged at HERE. You can take different courses and training at our online Learning Campus and join cross-functional team projects within our Talent Platform.

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely. At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an  open world and driven to create positive change. Join us.  Learn more about us. Watch video

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