The Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of CAD developers, fostering their growth, overseeing product delivery, ensuring technical excellence, and driving innovation.
We are seeking a visionary and experienced Technical Software Manager to lead our growing team of CAD application developers.
This role is pivotal in guiding the team to take ownership of key aspects of our cutting-edge projects, driving the development of high-performance applications.
You will leverage your leadership, understanding of CAD domain and passion for building robust and efficient software solutions to foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
As a player-coach, you will be responsible for the team's delivery, technical direction, and professional growth.
What you'll do - team leadership
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of CAD Application Software Engineers, fostering their professional development, conducting performance reviews, and ensuring high team morale and engagement.
- Cultivate a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and retention of top development talent.
What you'll do - product delivery and execution
- Partner with product managers, stakeholders, and other engineering leads to define project roadmaps, scope, and deliverables.
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and resources effectively to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of software solutions.
- Facilitate effective code reviews, providing constructive feedback to maintain high code quality and share expertise.
- Maintain a culture of high quality, highly automated test coverage and tracking and minimizing technical debt
What you'll do - technical oversight and strategy
- Encourage the team to come up with the best designs and implementations to meet the business goals.
- Champion and enforce best development practices, including robust coding standards and comprehensive testing methodologies
- Drive the optimization of application performance, ensuring efficient memory management and resource utilization.
What you'll do - innovation and continuous improvement
- Encourage and support the team in exploring new technologies and approaches to solve complex problems.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance team productivity and software quality.
What you bring:
- 7+ years of experience in developing complex software products, such as computer-aided design tools, games, or similar high-performance applications.
- 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership or software engineering management role, with a proven track record of successfully managing and mentoring engineering teams.
- CAD development experience (ideally 3+ years), with practical understanding of its core concepts, ecosystem, and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to introduce, champion, and enforce excellent development practices within a team and across codebases.
- Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and strategic thinking skills.
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team of highly skilled engineers.
- A genuine passion for building high-quality, robust, efficient, and cutting-edge software solutions.
- Experience in computational geometry or calculus.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience in building and maintaining complex high-performance distributed systems
- Experience with modern C++ or Rust
- Experience integrating geometry kernels and constraint solvers into CAD applications
Top Skills
C++
Cad
Rust
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