Manager Engineering

Join the Spot team at Flexera as an Engineering Manager or Technical Team Lead to shape the future of cloud cost optimization. This role involves leading and mentoring a team of 4-6 engineers, supporting their development, and organizing workflows. You will also provide technical leadership, collaborating with product managers, leading solution design, and ensuring best practices for scalable, high-quality features. Cross-functional collaboration with Product, UX, and DevOps teams is essential to drive product development from ideation to production, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Must Have

• Lead and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers
• Support team members with coaching and career development
• Organize team workflows, sprint planning, and task allocation
• Report progress, risks, and team health to leadership
• Handle administrative responsibilities like performance reviews
• Collaborate with product managers on technical tasks
• Lead technical planning, solution design, and architecture
• Guide team in delivering scalable, high-quality features
• Ensure engineering best practices and code quality
• Contribute to codebase in complex or architectural areas
• Work closely with Product, UX, and DevOps teams
• Embrace Agile methodologies and foster continuous improvement
• 10+ years in software engineering (backend/full stack)
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with Java or similar object-oriented language
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS/Azure)
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases

Good to Have

• Previous experience in a technical leadership or mentoring role
• Exposure to Kubernetes and containerized application development
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban)

Perks & Benefits

• Culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement
• Candor in problem-solving
• Passion for customer success
• Professionalism and ethics
• Accountability and transparency
• Celebration of success
• Giving back to communities
• Equal opportunity employer

About the Role

Join the Spot team at Flexera and help shape the future of cloud cost optimization. Our mature SaaS product portfolio empowers organizations to automate continuously for optimal cloud performance, cost efficiency and resource availability, and provides full visibility into their cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Engineering Manager (or Technical Team Lead) who combines strong technical capabilities with a passion for people leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & People Management
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers (4-6).
• Support team members through regular 1:1s, coaching, performance feedback, and career development.
• Help organize team workflows, sprint planning, task allocation, and execution tracking.
• Report progress, risks, and team health to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Handle administrative responsibilities such as performance reviews, time-off approvals.
• Technical Leadership
• Collaborate with product managers to understand product requirements and translate them into technical tasks.
• Lead technical planning, solution design, and architecture discussions.
• Guide the team in delivering scalable, high-quality features and improvements.
• Ensure engineering best practices, code quality, and effective testing strategies are followed.
• Contribute to the codebase where appropriate—especially in areas of high complexity or architectural importance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with Product, UX, DevOps, and other engineering teams to drive product development from ideation to production.
• Embrace Agile methodologies and foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong track record in backend and/or full stack development.
• Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals including design patterns, algorithms, and system design.
• Experience working with Java (or similar object-oriented language).
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments and services, preferably on AWS or Azure.
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, Timescale, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams in different time zones.
• Demonstrated ability or strong desire to take on team coordination and people leadership responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in a technical leadership or mentoring role (formal or informal).
• Exposure to Kubernetes and containerized application development.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban).

Why Flexera?

We’re an innovative, customer-centric organization driving cloud cost visibility and optimization at scale. At Flexera, you’ll find a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement. If you're passionate about building impactful software and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Revenera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws, policies and/or regulations. Regarding disability, we encourage candidates requiring accommodations to please let us know by emailing careers@flexera.com.

How We Roll - Our Culture is built on these Core Values

Candor

Tell it like it is — solve problems by dealing with them head on

Passion

What we do may not be for everyone, but we devour it and love making our customers successful

Professionalism and Ethics

Anyone can just "have a job" — we look for people that strive to “go pro”

Keep Score

Accountability and transparency are vitally important

Celebrate Success

Life is short and we work hard to keep our company operating at a high level

Give Back

We expect to give back to the communities in which we do business