Engineering Manager

Sonar Source

8+ Years | Geneva, Switzerland (On Site) | Full Time | 21 months ago

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Job Summary

Sonar is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a squad of 5-10 developers in building, automating, and operating software used by millions of customers worldwide. The role involves owning the professional growth and development of the team, enabling them to build well-crafted software, and promoting a high-performance engineering culture. The manager will improve products by collaborating with Product Management on objectives, overseeing technical architecture, and fostering consistency across the engineering organization by sharing best practices. Responsibilities include leading a team, ensuring delivery of monthly releases, building a platform for other functional squads, maintaining high engineering standards, and fostering a safe culture of feedback and collaboration. The manager will partner with product managers and designers, define clear objectives, track sprints, ensure processes align with company expectations, and collaborate with stakeholders. The role also involves partnering with the hiring team to recruit talented engineers and ensuring smooth onboarding.

Must Have

8+ years of software development experience
Developer mindset with coding lifecycle understanding
Advanced knowledge of Java ecosystem
Good understanding of DevOps mindset
Experience with Agile methodologies
3+ years of leadership/management experience
Growth mindset and passion for team development
Strong decision-making skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to deliver effective feedback

Good to Have

Experience with coding lifecycle
Ability to produce secure code
Ability to perform code reviews
Ability to jump into unknown codebase/language/framework
Good knowledge of at least one programming language
Ability to make concrete progress in ambiguity
Ability to clearly identify and articulate problems
Good listening skills
Ability to face and resolve conflicts
High level of autonomy
Ability to challenge yourself

Perks & Benefits

Dynamic work culture valuing respect and kindness
Flexible work policy (3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Remote work available in specific locations (Dubai, India, Japan, Australia)
Continuous education and new skill acquisition support
27 PTO days (Geneva region), plus additional days based on seniority
Pension contributions (60% of total cost)
Savings contributions (13.5% to 15.5% of base salary)
Risk contribution (2%)
Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus
Sustainable mobility options (carpooling, 60% refund for transportation subscription)
Global workforce with diverse nationalities
Annual kick-off events worldwide

Job Description

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply:

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

As an Engineering Manager at Sonar, you will lead a squad of 5-10 developers to build, automate and operate software used by millions of Sonar customers worldwide. You will own the professional growth and development of your team, enabling them to build well-crafted software for our products, and promoting a high-performance engineering culture.

You will improve our products by leading the elaboration of the squad's annual and quarterly objectives in close collaboration with the Product Management team while contributing to and overseeing technical architecture and engineering direction.

You will help to bring consistency across SonarSource’s engineering organization by collaborating closely with your engineering manager peers to foster and share engineering best practices.

As part of the role, you will participate in an on-call rotation to provide timely support and address any critical system issues that may arise outside of regular working hours.

What You Will Do Daily:

Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success.
Ensure that the engineers are equipped for success to deliver a monthly release of SonarQube.
Help engineers build a platform for the delivery of other functional squads.
Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard.
Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly.
Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams.
Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy and ensure that the team's work and focus align with this vision.
Be responsible that the squad defines clear objectives aligned with team, department, and company goals.
Be accountable that the squad tracks sprints and progress.
Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully.
Ensure the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.).
Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad.
Lead by example, modeling the behaviors and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership.

The Experience You Will Need:

8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, with a strong understanding of software testing.
Having a developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework.
Advanced knowledge of the Java ecosystem and a good understanding of the DevOps mindset.
Good knowledge of at least one programming language along with its development environment to understand end-user's context and expectations.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams.
A growth mindset and a passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential.
Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and resources effectively.
Capability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it, before jumping to possible solutions/actions.
Ability to deliver effective feedback.
Good listening skills.
Ability to face small conflicts in a healthy way and help parties resolve them.
High level of autonomy and still accepting help and feedback from team members and peers.
Ability to challenge yourself.

Why You Will Love It Here:

Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar:

We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.