Software Engineering Manager

Position Summary:   

The Engineering Manager is the heartbeat of the technical organization. You are responsible for the mandates of Organization productivity, Talent Density, and Delivery Predictability. While our Engineering Leads (ELs) own the "Technical Truth" including architecture, performance, reliability, and scalability, you own the "Execution Engine." You will manage the people and the processes that allow weavix to ship high-quality, ruggedized industrial solutions across the entire stack (Firmware, Cloud, Mobile, and Data). 

You are the primary partner to the Product Manager (PM), ensuring that roadmap ambitions are translated into realistic, data-driven delivery schedules. You shield the team from distractions while ensuring that every "fire drill" or "injection" is managed with transparency and clear trade-offs. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

People Management & Talent Strategy 

• Direct Leadership: Manage a team of 8–12 engineers across Cloud, Mobile, and Data pods. 
• Performance Excellence: Conduct regular 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, and handle all administrative duties (career pathing, compensation, and PIPs). 
• Talent Growth: Partner with ELs to identify technical skill gaps and create growth plans to elevate engineers from "contributor" to "expert." 
• Recruiting & Onboarding: Own the hiring funnel for engineering talent. Define interview rubrics, conduct final culture-fit screens, and ensure new hires are productive within their first 30 days. 

Delivery & Operational Excellence 

• Process Authority: Own and facilitate the SDLC and all Scrum ceremonies (Stand-ups, Planning, Retros). You ensure the "heartbeat" of the team is consistent across all stacks. 
• Jira/Board Integrity: Maintain absolute "Source of Truth" accuracy for the engineering backlog. You provide the data-driven "When" for every feature. 
• PM Support & Roadmap Sync: Partner with the PM to turn the "Product Why" into a "Delivery How." You are responsible for identifying resource bottlenecks before they delay a milestone. 
• Integrated Release Coordination: Manage the dependencies between the "Walt" Smart Radio firmware releases and the corresponding Cloud/Mobile updates. 

Disruption & Maintenance Management 

• Injection Gatekeeping: Act as the first line of defense for unplanned requests. Conduct impact analyses for every "injection" and force the explicit trade-off conversation with the CPO and PM. 
• Fire Drill Command: Serve as the Operational Lead during P0/P1 incidents. Manage stakeholder communication so ELs can focus exclusively on technical remediation. 
• Tech Debt Advocacy: Protect and schedule the "Tech Debt Tax" (15–20% of capacity) to ensure the long-term stability of our HaaS platform. 

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required 

Technical Context & Experience 

• Management Tenure: 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years in a dedicated people-management role (8+ direct reports) within a high-growth startup environment. 
• Multi-Stack Exposure: Prior experience in an environment that bridges Hardware and Software. You must understand the lifecycle differences between firmware deployments and cloud-native "push-to-prod" workflows. 
• Operational Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Jira or Linear. You must be able to generate velocity charts, burn-down reports, and capacity models that a CPO can use for Series C board reporting. 

Leadership Competencies 

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