Manager, Software Development 2

What you need to know about the role:
We are seeking a talented and experienced Engineering Manager to lead a dynamic team of engineers responsible for developing and maintaining the systems that support the localization of content across our global platforms. This role involves both hands-on technical leadership and management of a team focused on ensuring our products are culturally and linguistically appropriate for diverse audiences worldwide.

As an Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with product, localization, and international teams to ensure seamless integration and optimization of localization processes, tools, and workflows. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development and experience managing engineering teams in an agile environment.

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers focused on building scalable localization platforms, tools, and infrastructure. Ensure professional growth and development through regular feedback, coaching, and career guidance.
• Define and implement the technical roadmap for localization tooling, ensuring alignment with product goals and best practices. Provide hands-on technical leadership in system architecture, design reviews, and code quality oversight.
• Continuously identify opportunities for improving localization workflows, automation, and scalability. Implement best practices for localization within CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth and efficient content translation and adaptation.
• Establish and monitor KPIs for localization engineering efforts, including system performance, translation quality, and engineering productivity
• Collaborating with peers both within their team and across the organization.
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable.
• Supporting your applications and/or services as and when required.

• Be driven to get results and not let anything get in your way.
• Be proactive and anticipate/handle most issues before they blow up.
• Exhibit a strong backbone and challenge the status quo when needed.
• Demonstrate a high level of curiosity and keep abreast of the latest technologies.
• Show pride in ownership and strive for excellence in everything we do.
• Own business delivery and pipelines as well as drive the development of infrastructure solutions.
• Be open-minded and demonstrate one team behavior across teams, orgs, and locations.

• 12+ years of experience in building scalable fault tolerant applications/products
• 4+ years of managing a team of Software Engineers
• Experience in building enterprise applications using programming languages like Java.
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, NoSQL.
• Hands on experience with GCP.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to implement user-friendly features and interfaces.
• Bachelor s degree and/or Masters degree in Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Ability to lead, organize, and manage projects from beginning to end that require coordinated efforts across multiple functions
• Ability to operate and thrive in a fluid, ever-changing environment. Proactive in approach with a focus on driving results and outcomes with multiple priorities and multiple stakeholders.
• Drive innovation and customer advocacy. Be a positive change agent with a can-do attitude.
• Prior success in hiring, mentoring and developing highly effective Software Engineers and building high-performing teams
• An intellectually curious, quick study who will learn the business quickly.
• A conscientious, curious, hard-working individual who craves accountability and loves to solve complex problems.
• Skilled in providing technical leadership and architectural guidance
• Expertise in software development best practices
• Understanding of software development processes such as Agile
• Excellent written and oral communication skills