Firstup · 9 hours ago
Sr. Manager, Software Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $230K/yr
10+ years expFirstup is a company dedicated to improving the employee experience through its intelligent communication platform. They are seeking a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to lead the delivery of AI-enabled web applications for their SaaS platform, managing a team of engineers to ensure high standards of product quality and performance.
Software
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ 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
Preferred
Experience scaling and evolving Enterprise SaaS platforms through periods of growth or technical transformation
Demonstrated experience leveraging Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows
Exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains
Benefits
Excellent PTO program
Great health benefits
Casual and friendly environment
Remote work
Leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally
Company
Firstup
Firstup delivers a digital employee experience that helps companies reach, connect, and engage every worker, everywhere.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2011-01-01Series A
Leadership Team
Bill Schuh
Chief Executive Officer
Nicole Alvino
Chairwoman, CEO, Founder
Recent News
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