Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Apps)

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity. 

As an organization, we are looking for Team8s who are AI-proficient, open to innovation, and skilled in leveraging AI for efficiency and growth.

Learn more on our company website at www.8x8.com follow our pages on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Senior Engineering Manager- 8x8 is looking for an engineering leader to drive the development of our solutions. The goal of the Senior Engineering Manager is to expand functionality and increase the quality and performance of our core highly loaded and globally distributed platform. You are expected to leverage your technical depth as a former developer and architect to push the team towards a high standard of technical excellence.
The ideal candidate for this role is someone who enjoys being hands-on with engineering teams and possesses strong technical leadership and coaching abilities to help guide successful development strategies.

ResponsibilitiesYou would be leading and growing a talented multi-scrum team of 3-5 FE/BE software engineers, assisted by Product specialists, Project Management, Quality Engineers, and DevOps staff. Your team owns key aspects of the product from farm to fork, delivering innovative features and new concepts in conjunction with teams in London, Portugal and/or US.
Embrace end-to-end accountability (from architectural design to production operations);
Working across various teams and geographies (US, UK, Portugal, Romania, Canada);

QualificationsProven experience in managing software engineering teams in an Agile environment and different locations
Extensive professional software development experience, building scalable, highly available services
Successful prior career as a software engineer (Java/JVM or similar tech stack)
Passion for quality and service availability
Experience with both front-end and back-end technologies (JS/React/Redux/Java/Microservices/AWS)
SaaS mindset - automate everything, take action on data (CI/CD)
Still an engineer at heart as this role entails, to some extent, coding predominantly in the back end, tech stack revolving around Java;
Ambitious, with a passion for technical innovation and changing how we do things within our organization
Ability to address complex problems with simple and elegant solutions

For a closer look into what life at 8x8 UK Ltd. is about check out our Instagram page.
8x8 believes diversity makes our company stronger which is why we are a proud equal opportunities employer and encourage all of our staff to bring their authentic selves to work. We believe in fairness which is why we have been a member of the Living Wage Foundation for many years and we believe in security so reserve the right to undertake background checks on anyone that we extend an employment offer to.

Our Job Applicant Privacy Notice can be found here.