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Software Engineering Manager

🔥 2 minutes ago

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

💵 $120k - $140k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

Where this job comes from

Posted on LawnStarter's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 2 minutes ago

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LawnStarter

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

👥 B2C

🏪 Marketplace

🏠 Real Estate

💰 $10.5M Venture Round on 2019-11

B2C • Marketplace • Real Estate

LawnStarter is a service platform that provides affordable lawn care services at the click of a button. With fast online ordering, quality service, and a user-friendly app, LawnStarter allows customers to easily schedule and manage lawn maintenance services. These include lawn mowing, fertilization, bush trimming, and weeding. The company partners with local professionals to ensure reliable and insured services while supporting small businesses. LawnStarter offers its services across numerous locations in the United States, aiding customers in keeping their lawns beautiful and well-maintained.

📋 Description

• Lead cross-functional delivery teams of 4–5 engineers • Report to the Head of Engineering • Own delivery and people outcomes for the team • Create concrete growth plans for every individual contributor • Ensure predictable delivery cadence and quality • Surface risks early, manage scope, and maintain commitments • Address conflict directly and manage underperformance through a clear process • Protect and develop top performers • Partner with Product, Design, and other engineering teams • Provide technical direction on system design and architectural risks without becoming overly hands-on • Introduce AI tools and workflows for code review, documentation, sprint planning, and debugging • Coordinate roadmap-to-release delivery across Product, Design, quality engineering, architecture, and security • Track AI adoption and improve throughput without sacrificing quality • Build people leadership depth as the organization scales • Manage distributed teams across time zones and countries • Drive delivery consistency and cross-functional decision-making • Achieve year-one outcomes including documented growth plans within 60 days, committed-scope delivery within 90 days, proactive retention management, documented performance management, reliable commitments, and increased AI enablement

🎯 Requirements

• Deeply AI-integrated experience; hands-on use of AI workflows such as Claude, Copilot, AI-assisted code review, prompting, or spec-driven development • Experience developing people through concrete career growth plans • Experience managing underperformers through a structured process • Experience leading fully remote teams as the default operating model • Ability to handle team and cross-functional conflict directly and quickly • Ability to use metrics such as velocity, retention risk, and IC growth to guide decisions • Technical credibility through code reviews, architectural input, debugging, or comparable technical work • Ability to delegate effectively and avoid becoming a decision bottleneck • Commitment to people leadership as a primary craft • Ability to proactively surface and manage delivery risks

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote - this role is built for remote-first leaders • Structured work hours with reasonable flexibility for life • Equal employment opportunities and nondiscrimination protections

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