Software Engineering Manager

**What we do**

**About Coda Technology**

At Coda, we operate a high volume payments and e-commerce business, and we’re expanding rapidly. We need to build high-scale, distributed systems that can gracefully handle massive spikes in traffic. We also have an ambitious feature roadmap, so using state of the art tools to automate our development lifecycle is crucial to moving fast. We believe in autonomous teams, and we use modern technologies and the latest in cloud infrastructure.

Most importantly, we hire great people and empower them to drive Coda’s technology and products forward. We believe that the best ideas can come from everyone, so we encourage taking ownership and maintain a culture of servant leadership that allows engineers to drive features.

**Working at Coda**

Life at Coda is fast-paced, challenging, and fun. As a rapidly growing global company, we’re always looking to step up and adapt to changes quickly; there is never a dull day at Coda.

We make things happen in the most impactful and effective manner. If you are always eager to initiate new ideas, hungry to contribute more, derive satisfaction from team wins rather than individual ones, and value integrity, you will fit perfectly into the Coda team

**About the role**

Engineering management roles are critical to the success of Coda. In addition to being technically excellent, our managers need to exhibit strong leadership and superb people management skills. We give our managers an extreme amount of autonomy and responsibility, so it’s crucial that they are strong examples of Coda’s top-notch culture.

We work remotely from over 20 countries across the globe. We have development offices in key locations throughout Asia as well, in case you prefer working from an office. We hire top engineers, and give them the flexibility to work productively as part of a distributed team

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead a team of 6 to 12 software engineers
- Take ownership of one or more key systems at Coda, working with your team to constantly drive our technology forward and defining an aggressive technology roadmap
- Work closely with the Product team to ensure goals and work is clearly defined, at both the OKR and day-to-day levels
- Own the execution of product and technical goals
- Coach team members using continuous improvement techniques, resulting in a high-performance team
- Collaborate with the recruiting team to attract strong engineering talent

**Requirements**:

- Passion for building great products and software
- Exemplary communication skills, both written and oral
- Experience in an agile environment, with the ability to analyze and optimize team productivity
- 5+ years of experience as a successful software engineer working on hard problems
- 2+ years as a technical lead, manager, architect, or other leadership position
- Strong experience with data technologies (RDBMS, NoSQL, message queues, etc.)
- The ability to query, analyze, and work with data to drive decision making
- Expert architectural skills
- The ability to write and review code as necessary
- Able to quickly learn or evaluate new technologies

**Bonus if you have**:

- Experience with extremely high scale, distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of security or cryptography
- Machine learning and big data knowledge
- Experience building systems in the AWS cloud

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on gender, race, age, religion, disability, or other local protected class. We are committed to cultivating an inclusive environment for all employees, and we welcome the diversity that you will bring