The Lead Software Engineering Manager oversees multiple engineering teams, improving project management and enhancing development processes while ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!
Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
About the Role
The Lead Software Engineering Manager is a strategic technical leader responsible for overseeing multiple engineering teams that develop and maintain BW’s customer-facing and internal applications. This role focuses on improving project scoping and tracking, optimizing development processes, and leading efforts across cross-functional teams. The Lead Software Engineering Manager aligns engineering priorities with business objectives, promotes quality, and establishes standards among engineers. This role requires a strong balance of technical expertise, leadership, and organizational skills to drive engineering excellence, quality, and efficiency.
What You'll Do
- Lead and mentor multiple teams of engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and operational excellence.
- Help define and drive technical strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals while balancing scalability, performance, and resiliency.
- Partner with product management and senior leadership to influence roadmap planning and strategic decision-making.
- Establish project planning, tracking, and reporting frameworks and best-practices across teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve scrum/agile practices.
- Build relationships and improve workflows with teams such as Security, QA, Product, and stakeholders.
- Establish and refine engineering best practices, ensuring teams deliver high-quality and sustainable product.
- Contribute to process improvements cross release management, quality automation, and developer workflows.
- Guide engineering managers, principal and senior engineers in leadership, execution, and cross-team collaboration.
- Improve application lifecycle maintenance processes and contribute to a culture of proactiveness.
What You'll Need
- At least 8-12 years of experience in software engineering, with 3-5 years in a technical leadership role that includes previous people management.
- Proven experience in leading multiple engineering teams and scaling software development organizations.
- Strong background in distributed systems, cloud computing (AWS or similar), and modern API development.
- Up-to-date with current technologies to inform decision-making and technology adoption with focus on modern programming languages such as Node.js React, Typescript, GoLang, Python 3, or others.
- Expertise in optimizing engineering workflows, managing cross-team dependencies, and driving large-scale technical initiatives.
- Ability to balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic decision-making.
- Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and business teams.
- Track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining top engineering talent in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven record of shipping high-quality products that are maintainable, resilient, and performant.
- Ability to work remotely
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
What We Offer
The base salary range for this position is $230K to $245K/year. Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data. Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
Business Wire’s total rewards include:
A pre-employment background check will be required after the acceptance of an offer. Business Wire is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and local ordinances, and its internal policy, Business Wire will also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Top Skills
AWS
Go
Node.js
Python 3
React
Typescript
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