Swoop
Engineering Manager
Minneapolis-St · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
PythonRustDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewKubernetesAgentic AIEmbedded SystemsCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- What does impact look like as an engineering leader here?
Responsibilities
- Provide feedback on designs, product features, and technical specifications to help team members identify ways to improve quality. Coach IC's to reach the right outcomes, so that consistent improvements are made
- Develop engineers capable of managing large, ambiguous projects independently and successfully, with minimal oversight. They will still request help when necessary, but they will lead the process
- Maintain high standards for engineering and product development, while not shying away from providing feedback to team members (both praise and improvements)
- Maintain awareness and accountability of your teams domain, and effectively work with cross functional team members (Engineering, Business, PgM's, etc.) through successful full cycle product and feature launches
- Ensure technical design and engineering documentation remains current, as well as quarterly release notes
- We believe our team members are our greatest asset, and as such, are seeking a passionate engineering leader to manage engineers across product engineering.
- You view management not just as a career step for advancement, but rather, as an opportunity to nurture and develop talent.
- You hold the belief that good managers enhance their teams by looking for ways to improve individual's skills, guide problem solving so that team members come to the right solution on their own, identify personal growth opportunities, remove roadblocks, and aren't afraid to dive into technical work when needed.
- Track record of mentoring and leading high performing teams to successfully deliver on large scale projects
- Stay technical - Provide design and code reviews, and, when time permits, write some yourself.
Nice to have
- Previous management experience leading distributed team members
- Experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring high performing members into your team
Skills
- Swoop Technologies's mission is to make the physical world accessible to innovation.
- That is what Swoop is building.
- Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node.
- In the physical world.
- This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St.
- Paul who can work in-office 3+ days per week
Compensation
- Conduct regular 1:1's and annual performance and development reviews
Benefits
- Strong collaboration, verbal, and written communication skills that have been used to translate company vision, technical roadmaps, technical documentation, interactions with stakeholders, and team goals and alignment
- Communicate effectively changes at the team and organization level, in addition to successfully conveying the company vision and how it translates to our development roadmap
- This could take the shape of enhanced test coverage, automation, or other areas where utilizing your technical expertise enhances design and engineering processes at Swoop
- You will communicate our vision and how it integrates into the engineering roadmap, while maintaining technical oversight of engineering and design documentation.
- Bonus if you have:
Company info
- These teams are instrumental in building our platform that allows customers to access critical information about their systems and environment, share discoveries, and solve their most challenging real-world problems.
This listing is sourced directly from Swoop's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.