Company Name: Evisions

Job Details: Be an Early Applicant Hiring Remotely in California Remote Senior level

Job Url: https://builtin.com/job/manager-software-engineering/6879466

Job Description: Manager, Software EngineeringAs the Manager of Software Engineering at Evisions, you lead a high-performing engineering team to deliver reliable, secure software that solves real customer problems. Your scope spans hiring and coaching, technical direction, and predictable delivery. You partner with Product to shape priorities, translate business goals into sound architectures, and ship iteratively with strong automation and observability. You balance hands-on contribution with developing others, make ROI-aware decisions, and keep quality and operations first. Alongside day-to-day delivery, you’ll guide ongoing platform modernization – retiring debt and enabling faster, safer releases – without sacrificing speed to deliver new solutions.What you’ll doLead & develop people (≈50 %)· Act as a player-coach: spend 40-50% of your time pairing, reviewing PRs, and spiking prototypes while mentoring engineers.· Set quarterly OKRs, run 1-on-1s, approve PTO/expenses, and own performance reviews.· Build a culture of trust, high accountability, and continuous growth through open feedback and strong team rituals.· Recruit, hire, and onboard engineers who thrive on ownership and collaborative problem-solving.Deliver product (≈30 %)· Partner with Product to turn business needs and user feedback into shippable features and innovative solutions.· Architect resilient, observable services, often integrating AI models and SaaS platforms.· Make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions with an eye on ROI, iteration, and market responsiveness.· Ship in small, measurable increments; maintain high quality and operational readiness through automation and process discipline.· Foster AI-powered development workflows by embedding generative-AI coding assistants, automated code-review and security analyzers, and data-driven engineering metrics into the team’s daily practice—boosting velocity, reducing defects, and freeing engineers to focus on higher-order design.Advance architecture & process (≈20 %)· Contribute to the evolution of our technology stack—modernizing legacy systems while introducing scalable, cloud-native patterns.· Champion engineering best practices in architecture, testing, CI/CD, and code quality.· Use data and analytics to inform decisions, leveraging metrics, A/B testing, and analytics to guide priorities.· Partner with Security, DevOps, and Customer Success to ensure releases are secure, compliant, and maintainable.About you· Experience: 8+ years software-engineering experience, 3+ years in a lead or manager role. Proven success leading teams delivering production systems at scale.· Player-coach DNA: Comfortable writing production-grade code and coaching others.· Modern architecture expertise: Containers & serverless architectures, CI/CD, observability, domain-driven design.· AI & SaaS integration mindset: Hands-on integrating LLMs, APIs, and SaaS platforms.· Data fluency: Skilled in SQL, data modeling, and applying analytics in decision-making.· Business acumen: Able to weigh trade-offs between time-to-market, cost, and technical debt.· Communication: Clear, direct, and persuasive with both technical and non-technical audiencesBonus points for: Higher-education domain knowledge, contributing to open-source, and experience transitioning legacy systems to cloud.Additional details· This position will report to the VP of Engineering, who reports directly to our CEO.· Must be able to remain in a stationary position for up to 50% of the time.· Light travel may be required as needed for in-person collaboration or company events.· Responsibilities and priorities may evolve over time based on business needs. Flexibility and adaptability are key to success in this role· This is a security sensitive position and requires a background check and will need to adhere to the Evisions Information Security Management System.Role-Specific Add-On: Data Engineering ManagerYou will directly lead the Data Engineering team – the team building our next-generation data-pipeline, ETL, and packaged analytics offerings.Additional focus areas· Data-pipeline leadership: Design and deliver scalable, schema-aware pipelines connecting on-prem and SaaS data to analytics layers.· Modern ETL architecture: Evaluate and implement ETL/ELT workflows with modern solutions that meet the unique needs of our customers.· Packaged analytics: Guide the team in delivering turnkey dashboards and analytical models for higher-ed customers.· Managed-service mindset: Build multi-tenant, API-driven, performant, cost-efficient solutions with SLO/SLA considerations.· Data governance & lineage: Implement cataloging, versioning, and access-control practices to meet FERPA and SOC 2 requirements.