What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Software Engineering position at Kipsu?
Manager, Software Engineering
Kipsu is a growth stage Minneapolis-based technology company that has grown to over 120 employees. At Kipsu, we help service professionals Meet the Moment - from partnering with some of the largest hospitality brands in the world to working with clients in the multifamily and healthcare industries. Our best-in-class technology enables organizations around the globe to better serve their customers through streamlined messaging, data-driven performance metrics, sentiment analysis and workflow management. As one of the Twin Cities' leading tech companies, Kipsu has cultivated a reputation for a strong company culture and is consistently recognized by the Star Tribune as a Top Workplace.
THE OPPORTUNITY
You'll join and help shape a team of software engineers who value creativity, collaboration, and technical curiosity. We put a lot of effort into our team culture and will value your contribution to how we build and grow a healthy, productive, and respectful environment of growth and challenge. You'll be empowered to lead a team and maximize results of a group of talented and engaged Software Engineers.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Perform leadership and management responsibilities for a talented team of software engineers at a variety of points in their career
- Lead one or more software delivery teams
- Be an agile practitioner and help advance the state of Agile at Kipsu
- Plan, estimate and manage software development projects
- Be a member of the application delivery leadership team and participate in strategic and quarterly goal planning, tracking, and execution
- Think intentionally about what makes an inclusive, positive, and productive Engineering culture and work as part of a leadership team within Engineering to reinforce, reassess, and improve how we operate as a team
- Foster an environment of critical thinking and constructive collaboration; assist engineers with breaking down work and helping identify avenues to meet critical deadlines
- Provide review, advice and mentoring to team members regularly
- Collect, monitor and present key performance metrics within software delivery to ensure that we are achieving our goals
- Identify deficiencies in the development processes and support activities to improve them
- Be a point person for regular updates and communication to relevant stakeholders on a portfolio of projects, managing expectations and keeping our customer facing team up-to-date on developments and changes
- Help us increase our delivery predictability through improved systems for estimating and forecasting project delivery
- Help surface and manage trade-off decisions as we manage our work demands
- Assess software engineer performance, conduct regular 1 : 1s and provide feedback
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
WHAT MAKES KIPSU DIFFERENT
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE
One last thing - At Kipsu, we believe that our values, success, and future as a leader in our industry require a vibrant and diverse workforce. This is one of the many challenges we seek to solve, and we are intentional and active in recruiting talent of all identities and building an environment that is inclusive of all backgrounds. We need your contribution to our team. Please consider rolling up your sleeves and joining us on our journey.
