Manager Software Engineering
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team. You will set its roadmap, define shared capabilities and ownership boundaries, lead architecture and operation of APIs and customer systems, establish secure versioned interfaces, and communicate plans, risks, and tradeoffs across stakeholders.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Engineering management experience for production software
- Full-stack application design and operation
- Backend service design and operation
- API design and operation
- Distributed system design and operation
- Technical direction
- Cross-functional leadership
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the Shared Services Engineering team
- Hire, coach, manage performance, and support career development
- Define and execute the team roadmap
- Identify shared capabilities and establish ownership and integration boundaries
- Lead architecture, delivery, and operation of shared services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing systems
- Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces
- Communicate plans, progress, risks, and tradeoffs across stakeholders
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
- Equity
- Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment