Finite State

Finite State

Sr. Engineering Manager

United States or Canada · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$230k-$332kDetected 34 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsNode.jsGitPostgreSQLRedisAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDOAuthLLMsCybersecurityProduct ManagementSupply ChainEmbedded SystemsTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • You will be responsible for driving execution, scaling teams, and embedding AI-powered development and testing practices into every stage of the SDLC.
  • Delivering consistently high-quality, production-grade software is a key requirement of this role.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team (or teams) of 5-15+ engineers
  • Drive delivery of software that meets strict, measurable standards for quality, reliability, and maintainability
  • Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer needs into scalable, high-quality systems
  • Define and implement AI-driven quality strategies across your teams
  • Build and operationalize automated and autonomous testing systems, including AI-generated test cases (unit, integration, end-to-end), self-healing test suites, and agent-assisted validation
  • Define and implement AI-first development workflows across your teams

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5-15+ engineers
  • Proven track record of delivering high-quality, production-grade systems with measurable outcomes
  • Experience defining and enforcing quality standards through automation and systems, not manual processes

Skills

  • Hands-on experience with AI-powered developer tools and workflows (e.g., Cursor, Claude, Codex, or similar)
  • Strong understanding of how to apply LLMs and agent-based systems to code generation, testing and validation, and developer productivity
  • Ability to evaluate emerging AI technologies pragmatically and integrate them into real-world systems
  • Deep understanding of modern testing strategies and quality engineering
  • Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs, reliability and performance targets, and data-driven engineering metrics
  • Strong bias toward automation, instrumentation, and continuous validation
  • Strong coaching and mentoring skills
  • Ability to drive alignment and influence across teams
  • Clear communicator across technical and business contexts
  • Software Security / Application Security
  • Software Supply Chain Security (SCA, SBOMs, CI/CD security)
  • Experience in cybersecurity, IoT, or embedded systems domains

Compensation

  • $230,000 - $332,000
  • Customer first
  • Learn from customers. Ship with urgency.
  • Outsource the routine. Own the result.
  • We take responsibility-end to end.
  • Ship value. Improve fast.

Benefits

  • Manage technical debt strategically to ensure sustainable velocity and system health
  • Leverage LLMs and agent-based systems to continuously expand test coverage, identify edge cases, and reduce manual QA effort while increasing confidence

This listing is sourced directly from Finite State's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.