[Remote] Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pilotbase is a company focused on building a connected system for flight schools, pilots, and industry partners. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a high-performance engineering team, directing the software engineering function to meet business needs and ensuring the delivery of quality software applications and systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead your team to set goals, plan projects, and build timelines
• Hire and manage new team members and 3rd party contractors, and establish a culture of accountability
• Create and present budgets to upper management
• Hold coaching sessions and 1 on 1’s with tech leads
• Consistently deliver quality projects on time
• Work with your development team to establish and maintain the architectural vision
• Interface with the Product team to answer technical feasibility questions
• Own technical process and establish quality guidelines
• Stay current with industry best practices and determine when to adopt new technologies
• Maintain and increase development team velocity
• Create and maintain a high performance engineering team
• Ownership of the following areas:
• Engineering Backlog
• Application Performance / Availability
• Automated Test Coverage
• All Technical Processes (development, deployment, testing)
• Application and system security
• Infrastructure
• Project Level of Effort and Estimation

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience as a technical manager
• Experience leading a team towards set deliverables
• Experience establishing and improving KPI's
• Amazon Web Services experience highly desired
• Strong leadership skills in coaching, influencing and delegation
• Willingness to continue to learn, adapt, and be coachable
• Have high standards and a strong work ethic with a positive attitude
• AWS
• Mongo Realm
• Mongo Atlas
• Jira Administration
• Working with geographically dispersed teams
• Aviation Experience

Benefits

• Full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) plan)
• Equity Appreciation Plan
• Flexible Time Off policy
• Seven (7) company-wide paid holidays + two (2) floating holidays
• Two (2) wellness days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Professional Development Stipend
• Home Office Stipend

Company Overview

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