Granicus - Software Engineering Manager

Job Description

Software Engineering ManagerLocation: Costa Rica (Remote)Department: Engineering Application DevelopmentEmployment Type: Full TimeWork Arrangement: RemoteThe CompanyServing the People Who Serve the PeopleGranicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and their constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers by meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best company to work for on BuiltIn.Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers, powering an unmatched Subscriber Network that uses our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they servedriving meaningful change for communities around the globe.Want to know more See more of what we do.PLEASE NOTE - You must reside in Costa Rica to be considered for this position. Candidates living in other countries cannot be considered at this time.Job OverviewThe Software Engineering Manager at Granicus works to drive our teams to produce excellent software and works with our smart, driven engineers to enable their learning and growth. A Software Engineering Manager at Granicus will embody these values and ensure they are lived and breathed by their team. In addition to our values, a Software Engineering Manager will champion practices such as test-driven development, knowledge sharing, collective code ownership, and a supportive learning environment.This role will allow you to write code, mentor engineers, and think strategically. Your ideas about culture, roadmaps, and technical decisions of all sizes will be highly valued. Our Software Engineering Manager will love to collaborate on code and high-level thinking, think writing tests first is the best, and care deeply about people management.Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the career development of engineers within your group.
• Perform employee management, including coaching, skills development, and performance assessment.
• Help engineers identify areas for improvement, create plans to improve, and execute improvements.
• Act as point person for the hiring process for your level.
• Operate as an individual contributor on an engineering scrum team.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters to ensure process efficiency and improve the current process.
• Own and evangelize development team values.
• Execute tactically and provide proper context to the team.
• Focus on long-term vision and ensure technical decisions work to enable Granicus future.
• Ensure shared development team responsibilities are handled.
• Make significant contributions outside of the Product Organization as a resource to other areas of Granicus.
• Represent the Granicus Development team within Granicus and (when called upon) to clients outside of Granicus.

You Will Love This Job If You Have

• Experience with and passion for the agile development process.
• Ability to mentor engineers of all levels.
• Full stack engineering experience. We work in Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, .NET, SQL, and React.
• Ability to learn new technologies and help bring your team up to speed on them.
• Comfort when navigating a large legacy codebase and ability to spin up a new project for greenfield development.
• Proven leadership skills and proven ability to execute on projects.
• Experience collaborating with all the different departments needed to make software from Customer Support to Operations and Platform Engineering.
• Interest in the technology challenges faced by government offices.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.

Security RequirementResponsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the companys information security program.Security and Privacy Requirements

• Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.

The Team

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture

• At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey.
• A few culture highlights include:
  • Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices.
  • Coffee with Mark sessions Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs.
  • Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.
  • We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population.

The Impact

• We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact.

Equal Employment OpportunityGranicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Keyskills :
full stack engineering agile development process mentoring engineers employee management test driven development sql security java software engineering python ruby leadership skills.net