Software engineering manager Jobs in Vancouver, BC

Software Engineering Manager

Department : Engineering

Employment Type : Full Time

Location : Vancouver

Description

At ActiveState, we help organizations manage and secure the open source code they use. Our platform is ambitious : catalog, understand, evaluate all of the open source in the world. This includes securely building software from start to finish.

As an Engineering Manager at ActiveState, you will play a crucial role in shaping and executing the strategic direction of your team. You will define what success looks like, develop actionable plans, and ensure their execution while fostering a culture of growth and development. Your ability to translate strategic vision into measurable goals is key to our success. You are focused on results.

As a leader in our engineering division, you will develop and communicate the overall strategic direction for your team, define clear and measurable objectives that align with company goals, and influence and guide the technical direction of the company to ensure alignment with overall strategy. You make, communicate, and refine plans.

As a manager, you will directly manage a team of developers, coaching them on their growth and career development, especially to identify and leverage their strengths. You will implement a plan for building a high-performing team through careful planning and delegation. Because you know the importance of communication and collaboration, especially in a team distributed throughout the US and Canada, you achieve goals through cooperation.

As an experienced technical manager, you will use your knowledge to encourage your team to build and refine tools, data, and processes. As you work closely with product managers to evaluate, plan, and design new features to drive the development of new features, prioritizing them based on technical requirements and business needs. You are driven by data.

Above all, your ability to deliver results is crucial to our success. You plan a project, define what good means, rally the team, and hold you and your team accountable to deliver what you promised. You make and meet the right commitments.

What's In It For You

• Working for a stable and growing company that offers the environment and personal growth potential of a start-up as well as the stability of a business with established revenue.
• The chance to work with a smart, enthusiastic team of people.
• The chance to work on a project that will change the work lives of developers around the world, including your own!
• Competitive salary and bonus plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package and health / wellness credit program.

Requirements

Management experience : you have successfully managed a team of 5 - 7 software engineers of varied skill levels, achieving their personal goals as well as business outcomes, holding people accountable for quality and results.

About ActiveState

ActiveState has a collaborative, respectful, and professional culture. We’re all about working together to find the best solutions, and making sure that the experience of doing so is positive for everyone involved. There is a commitment from the CEO on down to making work at ActiveState a great experience for all.

We use open source software whenever possible, and we contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code.

Our company is a team of 60+ and growing, with half of the positions in technical roles. We maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but we’re flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life events.

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