Appfire is looking for a Manager, Software Engineering to drive business impact and technical excellence across our product portfolio. You will lead a team of software engineers within our Acceleration or Core streams, responsible for products like BigPicture Enterprise, 7pace Timetracker, Advanced Tables for Confluence, and JMWE. Your role has a major impact on the product roadmap, technical decisions, and the career development of your team.
What You'll Do
- Lead the team in delivering customer value.
- Articulate a long-term technical vision for the product.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Design to shape the future of the product.
- Apply technical literacy and judgment to guide the team on system complexity, scalability and reliability.
- Instill habits and practices to manage security, privacy, performance, and cost.
- Drive improvements in observability, incidents prevention and response processes.
- Improve delivery predictability and remove friction points from the development process.
- Use operational data to influence future prioritization and drive effective corrective actions.
- Serve as a leader and coach responsible for the development, mentoring, and performance of team members.
- Foster open collaboration and establish or strengthen scalable team processes.
- Practice principled decision-making, encouraging healthy debate and building trust.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience in software development.
- 3+ years in a management or technical leadership role (e.g., Team Lead, Engineering Manager).
- Product-oriented mindset, proven ability to connect engineering work to measurable business outcomes (e.g., examples of increased feature adoption, improved retention or reduced operating cost).
- Strong technical literacy with an up-to-date knowledge of modern cloud architectures (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and high-volume, scalable application development.
- Experience implementing or guiding teams on high availability and core observability concepts (SLOs, MTTD).
- Proven track record of connecting engineering strategy to business outcomes (revenue, retention, or cost reduction).
- Demonstrate strong technical judgment and the ability to articulate pragmatic trade-offs (speed vs. stability, build vs. buy, consistency vs. availability).
- Are passionate about cross-functional influence (Product, Design, Marketing, Finance) and developing team talent.
- Exhibit a calm, principled approach to risk management and incident resolution.
- Excel at building a high-trust, collaborative culture.
Team & Environment
You will run a team of software engineers within Appfire's Acceleration or Core streams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Choose to work where you thrive: Whether from home, in one of our offices, or while exploring the world.
- Hardware and software provided.
- Access to two decades of collective wisdom on working effectively in a remote-first company.
- Choose to balance your life without compromise: Plan your workday around your needs.
- Flexible time off without the hassle of complicated approvals.
- Choose to grow on your terms: Access to online learning platforms, facilitated training, leadership programs, and internal hackathons.
- Collaborate with a global team to gain fresh perspectives.
- Internal mobility program.
Work Mode
This is a global position.
At Appfire, we believe that great work happens when people get to choose how they work. After 20 years of creating software that empowers teams to break silos and collaborate seamlessly, we've learned that one size does not fit all. From day one, we trust you to deliver quality work without sacrificing your personal life, hobbies, loved ones, and well-being.
