Software Engineering Manager

Role Description

As a Software Engineering Manager at Spectrio, you will lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing agile development team to deliver cutting-edge, end-to-end audio and video marketing solutions. In this role, you will bridge the gap between product strategy and technical execution, driving continuous delivery, optimizing team workflows, and fostering a culture of trust and technical excellence to support our growing subscription-based platform.

Responsibilities include:

• People & Performance Management
  • Performing One-on-Ones: Regular touchpoints focusing on career growth, unblocking issues, and building trust (not just project status updates).
  • Performance Management & Reviews: Setting expectations, delivering continuous feedback, and writing formal performance reviews.
  • Hiring & Firing: Team building, interviewing, onboarding new talent, and managing exits or performance improvement plans (PIPs).
  • Approving Timesheets: Handling administrative approvals accurately and on time.
• Agile Process & Delivery
  • Sprint Grooming & Planning: Partnering with the team to ensure the backlog is refined, estimated, and ready for a successful sprint start.
  • Running Daily Standups & Retrospectives: Facilitating continuous alignment and helping the team reflect on how to improve their processes.
  • Sprint Reviews: Representing the team's accomplishments and deliverables at the end-of-sprint review meetings.
  • Team Metrics & KPIs: Tracking and reporting on team health and delivery performance (e.g., velocity, cycle time, burndown charts).
• Strategy & Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Product Owner Partnership: Collaborating with the Product Owner (PO) to align on product priorities, roadmap feasibility, and defining upcoming work.
  • Cross-Team Design Sessions: Participating in architectural and design alignments with leaders across the backend, device, and in-reality teams to ensure technical cohesion.
• Support & Escalation Management
  • Production Escalations: Serving as the point person for managing and resolving high-priority production issues and outages.
  • Support-to-Engineering Pipeline: Working with the Support team to triage, prioritize, and transition escalations from Zendesk into actionable Jira tickets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience directly managing and mentoring Software Engineers (including 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and career development).
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and architectural design patterns.

Requirements

• Experience managing engineering teams working across diverse tech stacks (familiarity with environments like .NET, Java, Python, or JavaScript/Node.js is a plus).
• Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of cloud hosting services (specifically AWS), containerization (Docker), and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, with a proven track record of using team metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time) to optimize delivery.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Owners and managing/collaborating with QA resources to ensure high-quality releases.

Benefits

• Remote Work: We believe great work happens where you feel most inspired, backed by a culture that prioritizes connection, collaboration, and flexibility.
• Company-provided monthly internet allowance included.
• Prorated PTO that accrues per pay period after 30 days of employment:
  • < 3 Years of Service: 15 days per year.
  • 3-5 Years of Service: 17 days per year.
  • 5+ Years of Service: 20 days per year.
• All employees accrue up to 40 hours (5 days) of sick time per year.
• 10 observed holidays per year.
• Three plan options for Medical Insurance (Low HSA, Mid, and High Plans).
• High and Low PPO plan options for Dental Insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• $50,000 policy for Basic Life Insurance, 100% employer-paid.
• 100% employer-paid Short-Term Disability; covers 60% of weekly salary for up to 26 weeks.
• Optional purchase of Voluntary Life/AD&D, Long-Term Disability, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential 24/7 support.