Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pilotbase is a company building a connected flight training ecosystem that integrates flight schools, pilots, and industry partners into a single data-driven network. The Engineering Manager will lead and oversee the software engineering function, setting technical direction and ensuring alignment with business needs. This role is responsible for managing the engineering team, maintaining high performance, and delivering quality software projects on time.
Responsibilities
- Lead your team to set goals, plan projects, and build timelines
- Hire and manage new team members and 3rd party contractors, and establish a culture of accountability
- Create and present budgets to upper management
- Hold coaching sessions and 1 on 1’s with tech leads
- Consistently deliver quality projects on time
- Work with your development team to establish and maintain the architectural vision
- Interface with the Product team to answer technical feasibility questions
- Own technical process and establish quality guidelines
- Stay current with industry best practices and determine when to adopt new technologies
- Maintain and increase development team velocity
- Create and maintain a high performance engineering team
- Ownership of the following areas:
- Engineering Backlog
- Application Performance / Availability
- Automated Test Coverage
- All Technical Processes (development, deployment, testing)
- Application and system security
- Infrastructure
- Project Level of Effort and Estimation
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience as a technical manager
- Experience leading a team towards set deliverables
- Experience establishing and improving KPI's
- Amazon Web Services experience highly desired
- Strong leadership skills in coaching, influencing and delegation
- Willingness to continue to learn, adapt, and be coachable
- Have high standards and a strong work ethic with a positive attitude
- AWS
- Mongo Realm
- Mongo Atlas
- Jira Administration
- Working with geographically dispersed teams
- Aviation Experience
Benefits
- Full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) plan)
- Equity Appreciation Plan
- Flexible Time Off policy
- Seven (7) company-wide paid holidays + two (2) floating holidays
- Two (2) wellness days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Professional Development Stipend
- Home Office Stipend
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