Senior Manager, Software Engineering

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Heroku seeks a technically strong, collaborative Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to lead their Front End Web team. Responsibilities include driving feature delivery, collaborating with multi-functional teams, making critical product decisions, proactive issue resolution, daily Scrum Master duties, partnering with the Product Owner, ensuring team resource adequacy, empowering self-coordination, mentoring team members, advocating for technical excellence, participating in architecture discussions, and contributing to hiring. The role involves managing stand-ups, aligning objectives and priorities, providing technical guidance, and occasionally coding/feature verification. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record leading software engineering teams on fast-paced projects, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and strong communication skills.
Must have:
  • 3+ years leading software engineering teams
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong communication & organizational skills
  • Experience with short release cycles
  • Experience in hiring and mentoring engineers
  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices

Job Details

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Heroku is looking for technically strong, energetic, highly collaborative, and passionate leaders to lead our Front End Web software engineering team! You will run and lead a team of outstanding developers and keep quality in mind. We work in a collaborative environment, and we value open communication and feedback, code reviews, and making learning fun!

Your Impact:

  • Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many multi-functional teams, architects, product owners, program managers and engineers
  • Make critical decisions that attribute to the success of the product
  • Proactive in foreseeing issues and resolving it before it happens
  • Daily management of stand-ups as the Scrum Master for the Web engineering team
  • Partner with PO to align with objectives, priorities, tradeoffs, and risk
  • Ensuring team has clear priorities and adequate resources
  • Empowering the delivery team to self coordinate
  • Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
  • Providing technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members
  • Maintaining high morale and motivating the delivery team to go above and beyond
  • Vocally advocating for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
  • Participating in architecture discussions and planning
  • Participating in multi-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
  • Maintaining and encouraging our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals
  • Occasionally chipping in to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical skill sharp


Required Skills:

  • 3 + years of proven track record leading a software engineering team with a distinguished track record on technically fast paced projects
  • Experience leading large scale distributed systems, working with microservices and/or distributed architecture
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to be flexible, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
  • Experience with short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and experience working on a product that’s been released for public consumption
  • Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading engineers
  • Working experience of software engineering best practices including coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
  • A related technical degree required.

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