Software Engineering Manager

JOB SUMMARY

Big Room Technologies is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead and strengthen our engineering team while remaining actively involved in the work we deliver. This person will mentor engineers, establish and uphold strong engineering practices, and serve as a technical bridge between our engineering team, operations, and client projects.

They’ll help shape technical approaches across projects, build teams around the right mix of skills and interests, and step in as a hands-on contributor or technical lead when needed.

Beyond individual projects, this role will help define how engineering is done at Big Room—creating consistency across our practices, evaluating new technologies, strengthening our technical capabilities, and building a collaborative team where engineers can grow and do their best work.

ABOUT BIG ROOM TECHNOLOGIES

Big Room Technologies helps organizations build better ways for people, processes, and systems to work together through thoughtful technology strategy and custom software engineering.

The challenge usually isn’t a lack of technology—it’s determining what actually needs to improve, how existing systems should evolve, and where new technology can create meaningful value.

We combine technology advisory, systems thinking, and software engineering to help organizations identify the right opportunities, define a practical path forward, and build solutions that work within their real-world environment.

We don’t start with a predetermined product or platform. We start with the problem, then determine the right approach; whether that means improving an existing application, integrating systems, implementing a third-party solution, building custom software, or combining multiple approaches.

DETAILS

High-level objectives

• Facilitate growth of engineering team individuals as a mentor.
• Be a technical point of contact between operations and the engineering team.
• Act as a billable individual contributor on projects.
• Foster a cohesive engineering team.
• Maintain quality standards of engineering work.
• Own technical strategies that span multiple clients, projects and service offerings.

Facilitate growth of engineering team individuals as a mentor.

• Act as a mentor and facilitator to allow team members to take on more responsibility, exercise new skills, etc.
• Provide technical feedback (e.g. in one-on-ones) and help track individual progress, with an eye towards getting people promoted and/or being able to do more work that they’d like to do.
• Collaborate on projects with team leaders.
• Run standups.
• Ensure regular one-on-ones with the engineering team and annual reviews that are timely and high quality.
• Be a point of contact for engineering team members. Be able to address technical issues, route project-related issues to project management, and escalate other issues to senior management.

Be a technical point of contact between the business and the engineering team.

• Be an advocate for the engineering team when communicating with operations.
• Be an advocate for operations needs to the engineering team.
• Participate in hiring activities.
• Participate in resourcing activities, helping to build balanced project teams that take into account individuals’ skills and interests.

Act as an individual contributor on projects.

• Join project teams, sometimes but not always as the project lead.
• Help to course-correct on projects that are experiencing issues.

Foster a cohesive engineering team.

• Own engineering rituals such as team member one to ones
• Facilitate group technical discussions and decision-making.
• Help to create consensus and understanding across the team.
• Ensure many different combinations of team members get to work with each other, complement each others’ skills, and share knowledge.
• Promote a culture of professionalism, trust, discipline and understanding.

Maintain quality standards of engineering work.

• Hold team members accountable for our engineering practices.
• Model our agreed-upon engineering practices.
• Ensure that all team members receive code review.
• Ensure that our practices, standards, and code are well documented and up to date.
• Encourage retrospective-style conversations about notable situations, good and bad.
• Own our toolset and ensure it is well-maintained, working for our needs.
• Provide technical feedback to all team members outside of code review, e.g. on overall approach, technical planning, communication skills.

Own technical strategies that span many clients, projects, Big Room offerings.

• Define engineering practices that create consistency across projects.
• Own our toolset and ensure it is well-maintained, working for our needs.
• Participate as the technical perspective in “new and next level” technology evaluations.

Continually keep-up with trends related to our technology choices.

NOTE

This is a full-time position offered to applicants in the state of Maine only. The successful applicant will work a hybrid schedule, with three days per week in our Portland office.

Resume and cover letter required.

Pay: From $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• Do you currently reside in the state of Maine?

Work Location

Hybrid remote in Portland, ME 04101