Manager, Software Engineering

🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 United States, United Kingdom – Remote

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🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +29 more states – Remote

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💵 $175k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Slingshot Aerospace

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $25.2M Grant on 2022-03

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

Slingshot Aerospace is a leading AI and data-driven platform focused on optimizing satellite operations and enhancing space traffic coordination for operators worldwide. Renowned for its innovative solutions in space domain awareness, Slingshot Aerospace provides advanced tools for space security, defense missions, training, and market analysis. The company's comprehensive offerings include space object tracking, AI-driven training agents, and astrodynamics services. Through its Global Sensor Network and sophisticated data fusion techniques, Slingshot transforms disparate space data into actionable insights, improving operational efficiency and reducing risks in an increasingly complex orbital environment. Trusted by government and commercial space operators, Slingshot Aerospace is committed to making the space domain safe, sustainable, and secure for future generations.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage a software engineering team responsible for backend services, APIs, and product integrations • Support direct reports through one-on-ones, feedback, performance reviews, career coaching, and development plans • Recruit, interview, onboard, and retain engineering talent • Set priorities, manage delivery commitments, identify risks and blockers, and communicate schedule impacts and technical tradeoffs • Provide technical guidance for backend APIs, services, and integration layers • Facilitate technical design reviews and empower senior engineers and technical leads • Serve as the primary engineering contact for external vendors and technology partners • Clarify technical requirements, define interfaces, review designs, coordinate testing, manage dependencies, and resolve integration issues • Establish ownership, communication channels, escalation paths, and working agreements with internal teams and external partners • Coordinate with Program Engineering, DevOps, QA, Security, Product, and Program Management • Establish practices for documentation, code quality, automated testing, release readiness, monitoring, operational runbooks, and production support • Promote reuse of shared services, interfaces, AI best practices, integration components, and engineering patterns

🎯 Requirements

• Software engineering experience in backend, platform, distributed-system, or integration-focused environments • Strong systems architecture and technical design capabilities • Experience directly managing or formally leading a software engineering team • Experience with coaching, performance feedback, career development, and team-culture development • Experience managing team priorities, capacity, technical dependencies, and delivery commitments • Experience designing, building, or operating RESTful APIs, service-oriented or microservice architectures, event-driven systems, and resilient integration workflows • Experience with Kotlin, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, and TypeScript • Experience working with external vendors, technology partners, customer engineering teams, and internal stakeholders • Understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, observability, security, and production operations • Active or prior TS/SCI clearance • Ability to work in the United States or United Kingdom, subject to stated hiring-location restrictions • Approximately 20% travel availability

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Remote work arrangement • Approximately 20% travel to customer, vendor, partner, and Slingshot locations • Equal employment opportunity workplace

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