Sonar enables organizations to ship agentic code with confidence. Code creation is abundant, but confidence is scarce. Our core platform, SonarQube, verifies over 750 billion lines of code every day, delivering agentic verification and governance for all code. Trusted by more than 7 million developers and 75% of the Fortune 100, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company, Sonar enables organizations to reduce outages, improve security, and lower the cost and risk of agentic software development.
Founded in Geneva and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Sonar has a global team working across offices and hubs, including Silicon Valley, London, Bochum, Barcelona, Singapore, Tokyo, and the Washington, D.C. area. At Sonar, we’re enabling enterprises to build agentic software factories that can move quickly while maintaining the control, consistency and evidence required to ship with confidence.
As an Engineering Manager at Sonar, you will lead a squad of 8 developers to build, automate and operate software used by millions of Sonar customers worldwide. You will own the professional growth and development of your team, enabling them to build well-crafted software for our products, and promoting a high-performance engineering culture.
You will improve our products by leading the elaboration of the squad's annual and quarterly objectives in close collaboration with the AI team while contributing to and overseeing technical architecture and engineering direction.
You will help to bring consistency across Sonar’s engineering organization by collaborating closely with your engineering manager peers to foster and share engineering best practices.
What you will do
Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success.
Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard.
Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly.
Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams.
Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy and ensure that the team's work and focus align with this vision.
Ensure the squad defines clear objectives that are aligned with team, department, and company goals.
Be accountable for tracking sprint progress.
Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully.
Ensure that the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.).
Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad.
Lead by example, modeling the behaviors and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership.
Experience and qualifications
8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, with a strong understanding of software testing.
Having a developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework.
Advanced knowledge of the Java ecosystem
Good knowledge of at least one programming language along with its development environment to understand end-user's context and expectations.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams.
A growth mindset and a passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential.
Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and resources effectively.
Capability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it, before jumping to possible solutions/actions.
Ability to deliver effective feedback.
Good listening skills.
Ability to face small conflicts in a healthy way and help parties resolve them.
High level of autonomy and still accepting help and feedback from team members and peers.
Ability to challenge yourself.
The technical skills you will demonstrate
The leadership skills you will demonstrate
The soft skills you will demonstrate
We're intentional about this. We believe the best teams are built in the room together. Three anchor days — Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays — create the collaboration rhythm that makes a hub office worth having.
Candidates need to be genuinely based in the location the role is posted — if that's not where you are today, we're happy to support relocation for the right person.
We value diversity, equity, and inclusion
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
If you need any accommodation, please reach out to us at [email protected].
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in software development
- Strong understanding of software testing
- Experience with coding lifecycle, secure code development, code reviews, and working in unfamiliar codebases, languages, and frameworks
- Advanced knowledge of the Java ecosystem
- Good knowledge of at least one programming language and its development environment
- Experience with Agile methodologies
- 3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role
- Proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams
- Strong decision-making and prioritization skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to provide effective feedback and resolve conflicts constructively
- High autonomy and ability to work through ambiguity
- Ability to work from the role's posted location and participate in three in-office anchor days per week
What the Team is Saying
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Sonar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as generous and can increase with seniority; feedback suggests time away from work is a standout element of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Employer contributions toward medical coverage are high, with dental/vision included and company-paid life and disability; information indicates telemedicine and mental‑health support are part of the offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer matching is available; feedback suggests the plan is well regarded, with some noting immediate vesting in certain cases.
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What We Do
Sonar provides the essential verification layer for the AI-driven development era, ensuring all code—whether human-written or AI-generated—is code you can trust. Today, AI coding tools are generating explosive volumes of code. This has created an "engineering productivity paradox" : faster code writing doesn't automatically lead to faster, safer software delivery. The new bottleneck is verification. Sonar solves this. Integrating code quality and code security into a single platform (SonarQube), Sonar is the foundation for high performance software engineering, analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure, reliable, and maintainable. As an independent verification platform, Sonar enables organizations to securely develop at the speed of AI. We are driven by a deep belief in our people, a commitment to excellence, and an unwavering dedication to delivery. We operate as a united group where our collective success is the sum of each individual's contributions. Our company culture is driven by the values of CODE: Committed, Obsessed, Deliberate & Effective. This mindset reflects our culture of creativity, collaboration, and pride in the work we do. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 35 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers worldwide, including ServiceNow, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company. Sonar is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Bochum, Germany; London, Singapore, and Tokyo. The company is rapidly growing with over 800 employees! Join us in our mission to solve the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code!
Why Work With Us
We are a product-first company, with a people-first culture. Every employee has the opportunity to grow and learn. We promote from within, provide regular feedback and professional development opportunities, value the right to fail along with respect and kindness and work with team members to achieve their full potential.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
At Sonar, we require employees to come into the office 3 days/week.
