Manager, Software Engineering
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Software Engineering Manager at Findhelp, you will be a hands-on technical leader and people manager, actively participating in technical challenges with your team. You will set high standards for technical quality through design discussions and code reviews. Responsibilities include cultivating a strong, collaborative team dynamic, mentoring engineers, ensuring professional growth, and aligning team goals with company objectives. You will also engage with customers to understand needs and contribute to product roadmaps. Key duties involve leading and developing a full-stack development team, ensuring best practices, driving project success, and fostering a growth-oriented engineering culture. The role requires clear communication of project updates and feedback implementation for process improvements.
Must have:
- 5+ years technical experience including SaaS design, implementation, and deployment
- Expertise in Python, MySQL, ReactJS
- 3+ years managing software development teams
- Experience mentoring engineers in a hybrid environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Self-directed and analytical
- Experience leading teams in Agile methodologies
Good to have:
- Experience with non-profits or social care organizations
Perks:
- 401k & Stock options
- Free food and onsite gym at Austin HQ
- Paid parental leave
- Competitive PTO & 10 paid holidays
- Employee-only paid Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ
- 24/7 access to telemedicine and counseling
- Book Purchasing Program
- Culture Committee
- Leadership Development Training
- Paid Volunteering Time
7 skills required
Job Details
We’re changing the way people connect to social care.
At Findhelp, we’ve built a comprehensive platform of products and services that make it easy for you to connect people to resources, follow them on their journey, and track your impact in a fast and reliable way. Our industry-leading social care network includes more than half a million local, state, and national programs that serve every ZIP Code in the country, from rural areas to major metropolitan centers.
Findhelp is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has been enabling healthcare, government, education, and other organizations to connect people with the social care resources that serve them, with privacy and security, since 2010.
As a mission driven organization, we are focused on creating a positive impact by connecting people in need to the programs that serve them with dignity and ease. Powered by our proprietary technology that enables people to find the resources available in their area, we have helped millions of Seekers find food, health, housing and employment programs.
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be both a hands-on technical leader and a people manager, actively engaging in technical challenges alongside your team. You will set a high bar for technical quality, participating in design discussions, code reviews, and problem-solving to drive impactful solutions. Beyond the technical realm, you will be responsible for cultivating a strong, collaborative team dynamic that thrives in both remote and in-office environments. You will lead by example, ensuring that engineers feel supported in their professional growth while aligning team goals with company objectives. In addition, you will engage with customers and customer-facing teams to deeply understand their needs and contribute to defining product roadmaps. Through effective communication and mentorship, you will empower your team to deliver high-quality work, continuously improve, and innovate.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of full stack developers and ensure best practices around software development, code quality, and team performance
- Actively contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure high engineering standards and drive impactful solutions.
- Engage with customers and customer-facing teams to understand business needs, gather feedback, and help define product roadmaps that align with strategic objectives.
- Drive project success by ensuring milestones and goals are met while collaborating closely with other divisions within R&D, such as the Business Analysts and Quality Engineering team
- Lead by example, fostering a growth-oriented environment through hiring, developing, and supporting engineers at multiple levels.
- Build and maintain a healthy and productive engineering culture that thrives on high quality, sense of ownership and pride, and accepting failure as being part of the process.
- Ensure that your team is always working on the highest priority work and delivering through the finish line on time.
- Clearly communicate project updates, technical challenges, and team progress to leadership and other key stakeholders.
- Seek and provide feedback to identify and implement process improvements that enhance team productivity, operational efficiency, and the software development lifecycle, fostering a culture of open communication and knowledge-sharing.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years technical experience, including designing architecture, implementation, and deployment of SaaS applications. Expertise in Python, MySQL, ReactJS
- 3+ years of experience managing a software development team in a high-growth environment as direct reports
- Experience mentoring and developing software engineers in a hybrid work environment
- Strong verbal and written communications skills needed to articulate complex, strategic and technical thoughts and ideas effectively to multiple audiences, as well as to listen for meaning and understanding.
- Self -directed and analytical, while being comfortable working in a team environment
- Experienced leading a team in Agile methodologies
- Experience with non-profits or social care organizations
$124,000 - $187,200 a year
The compensation for this position will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location.
We value being together
We believe being together enables stronger relationships, collaboration, and culture.
This position is in office and candidates must be located in Austin, Texas, Madison, Wisconsin, or Denver, Colorado
Perks at Findhelp
•401k & Stock options
•Free food and onsite gym at our Austin HQ
•Paid parental leave
•Competitive PTO & 10 paid holidays
•Employe only paid Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
•Dog-friendly office in Austin HQ
•24/7 access to telemedicine and counseling
•Book Purchasing Program
We’re building a diverse, inclusive team
You’re welcome here. We want everyone to be able to easily connect to the help they need, and we want our teams to reflect and represent our communities. It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all Company policies, without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin or ancestry, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, creed, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or any other protected class, in accordance with applicable laws. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
Here are some of the ways we support our staff:
•Culture Committee
•Leadership Development Training
•Paid Volunteering Time
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