Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Career TEAM

Location: Remote (Philippines)

Work Hours: Night Shift (flexible within the range of 6:00 PM – 7:00 AM PHT, with overlap with U.S. teams)

Reports to: Director of Engineering

About Career Team

At Career Team, we are building software that improves access to opportunity, workforce development, and support systems at scale. Through Career Edge, we help connect people with tools and services that can change lives.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and supporting Career Edge. This role is ideal for a strong technical leader who enjoys people management, shipping product, and improving team execution.

This is not a company-wide executive leadership role. Instead, it is focused on:

Owning delivery for a defined product or platform area

Managing engineers directly

Improving engineering quality and velocity

Partnering closely with Product, Design, QA, and U.S.-based stakeholders

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Delivery

Lead cross-functional engineering teams

Own sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk management

Partner with Product and Design to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans

Remove blockers and improve team operating rhythm across a distributed environment

Drive visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work

Agile Process & Team Operating Rhythm

Establish and continuously improve a disciplined Scrum/Agile process — sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives that actually change behavior

Partner with Product to keep the backlog groomed, well-estimated, and prioritized at least one to two sprints ahead

Drive accurate estimation and sprint commitment; track velocity, throughput, and cycle time to make delivery predictable rather than optimistic

Enforce clear definitions of ready and done, including test coverage, code review, and documentation standards

Run blameless retrospectives and close the loop on action items sprint over sprint

Adapt ceremonies to a distributed, night-shift team — async-first updates, tight written communication, and minimal meeting overhead

Coach engineers on breaking work into small, independently shippable increments

Technical Guidance

Provide technical leadership across the team's modern web stack and cloud infrastructure

Review designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths

Support scalable, secure, and maintainable system design within your team's domain

Improve engineering practices around CI/CD, code review, observability, testing, and incident response

Use delivery metrics such as DORA (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore) to identify bottlenecks and guide improvement

AI-Enabled Engineering

Champion AI adoption across the SDLC — planning, code generation, review, testing, documentation, and incident response

Set standards for responsible AI-assisted development: what gets reviewed, how quality bars hold, and where human judgment is non-negotiable

Evaluate and roll out AI tooling (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, agentic workflows, MCP-based integrations) and measure real impact on velocity and quality

Coach engineers to shift from writing every line to specifying, reviewing, and validating AI-generated work

Stay current as tooling evolves rapidly and bring practical ideas back to the team

People Management

Manage, coach, and develop software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth plans

Support performance management, hiring, onboarding, and retention

Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, code quality, and continuous learning

Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with U.S.-based stakeholders during overlap hours

Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams to keep delivery aligned with company goals

Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and delivery status clearly to technical and non-technical partners

What We're Looking For

Experience

6+ years in software engineering

2–4+ years leading teams as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or equivalent

Experience delivering production software in a SaaS, web platform, or product-led environment

Experience working with distributed or remote teams

Demonstrated track record implementing or maturing Scrum/Agile practice on a team that previously lacked it

Technical Background

Required

Strong full-stack engineering background in the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem

Hands-on experience with Node.js and React / Next.js, and with designing and consuming APIs

Experience running production workloads on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)

Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery workflows

Strong understanding of maintainable architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and engineering quality

Nice to Have

Nest.js

MongoDB and/or MySQL at production scale

Docker and containerized deployment

Broader DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices

Leadership Traits

Strong communicator and coach

Comfortable balancing speed, quality, and business priorities

Able to go deep technically without becoming a bottleneck

Calm under ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving environment

Genuinely passionate about AI — actively experimenting, and opinionated about where it helps and where it doesn't

Why Join

Build technology that impacts real lives

Work with a mission-driven global team

Stay close to product and code while growing as a leader

Help shape how Career Team scales its engineering organization

Work somewhere AI is genuinely embraced — you will have the mandate and the tooling to modernize how software gets built here

Compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.

• About Career Team:
• Founded in 1996, Career Team is socially conscious organization that seeks to close the nation’s opportunity divide through government-funded workforce development programs designed to help individuals get the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to obtain quality employment. In addition to administering these programs, Career Team develops and leverages cutting-edge software tools to ignite transformative change within the workforce development industry. Career Team is revolutionizing the operational landscape for workforce development professionals through its Career Edge platform, which includes state-of-the-art job training tools and advanced case management systems. For more information see www.careeredge.com and www.careerteam.com .

Career Team’s outstanding record has resulted in numerous honors, including:

Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies

Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation

Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program

Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider

Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Background Check Requirements. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.