The Role
Leads 3–5 engineering teams through Team Lead management, cross-team planning, prioritization, delivery, escalation handling, and engineering governance. Drives standards for quality, testing, reliability, incident management, and operational excellence while partnering with Product, QA, Customer Success, Sales, and other stakeholders. Develops engineering leaders, manages capacity and dependencies, tracks team and delivery metrics, and oversees platform initiatives such as monitoring, autoscaling, resource guardrails, and incident tooling.
Summary Generated by Built In
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a cluster of 3–5 Engineering Team Leads and drive people management, cross-team coordination, delivery, engineering standards, and operational excellence.
The ideal candidate will be a strong engineering leader who can work across multiple teams, resolve competing priorities, handle escalations, develop Team Leads, and ensure consistent engineering practices across the organization.
Key Responsibilities- Manage and mentor 3–5 Team Leads, supporting their teams' performance, growth, hiring, and career development.
- Own cluster-level planning, prioritization, capacity allocation, and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
- Resolve cross-team dependencies, resource conflicts, delivery risks, and escalations.
- Act as the primary point of contact for business, customer, and cross-functional escalations involving multiple teams.
- Drive consistent engineering standards covering code quality, testing, code reviews, incident management, and reliability.
- Track and improve engineering metrics such as delivery cycle time, incident rate, MTTR, escalations, and team health.
- Partner with Product, QA, Customer Success, Sales, and other stakeholders to align technical execution with business priorities.
- Develop Team Leads into effective people managers and create a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- For Platform & Shared Services, own initiatives related to monitoring, reliability, autoscaling, resource guardrails, and incident tooling.
This is not a hands-on coding or individual contributor role. Day-to-day coding, debugging, and code reviews remain with Team Leads and Senior/Staff Engineers.
The Engineering Manager's focus is on people leadership, coordination, delivery, escalation management, and engineering governance.
Requirements- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in people management.
- Experience managing Team Leads, Tech Leads, Managers, or senior engineering professionals is preferred.
- Strong experience in cross-team planning, prioritization, resource management, and delivery.
- Proven ability to handle technical, customer, and business escalations.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Good technical depth to evaluate engineering trade-offs and challenge decisions effectively.
- Experience driving engineering standards, quality, testing, reliability, and operational improvements.
- Experience working with distributed/multi-location teams is a plus.
- Experience in B2B SaaS, high-availability systems, IoT, fleet management, telematics, logistics, or mobility is a plus.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering
- 3+ years of experience in people management
- Experience managing Team Leads, Tech Leads, Managers, or senior engineering professionals
- Experience with cross-team planning, prioritization, resource management, and delivery
- Proven ability to handle technical, customer, and business escalations
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Technical depth to evaluate engineering trade-offs and challenge decisions
- Experience driving engineering standards, quality, testing, reliability, and operational improvements
- Experience working with distributed or multi-location teams
- Experience in B2B SaaS, high-availability systems, IoT, fleet management, telematics, logistics, or mobility
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The Company
What We Do
Uffizio develops GPS tracking, telematics, and IoT software for fleet, vehicle, and asset monitoring. Its white-label, customizable platform supports real-time visibility and fleet management, and integrates with a wide range of GPS devices and sensors. The company provides mobility solutions for business partners across industries and countries, helping organizations monitor operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs through scalable connected-device technology.
