Granicus is hiring a Manager - Software Engineering

The Technical Manager is a hands‑on engineering leader responsible for driving the design, development, and delivery of cloud‑native, distributed systems while leading a cross‑functional team of engineers across various experience levels. This hybrid role blends deep technical execution—spending 40–50% of your time coding—with architectural leadership, DevOps maturity, and quality engineering governance. You will work with Java/Spring Boot or Python microservices to build scalable, secure, and resilient platforms. In partnership with DevOps/SRE teams, you will advance CI/CD practices, strengthen operational capabilities, and champion next‑generation engineering tools such as AI‑assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Cursor). Beyond your technical responsibilities, you will mentor full‑stack and quality engineers, shape engineering culture, and raise the overall bar of engineering excellence. What Your Impact Will Look Like Hands-On Engineering (40–50%) You will elevate our backend architecture by developing high‑quality services using Java/Spring Boot or Python microservices, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. You will strengthen system design by leading architectural decisions across microservices, distributed systems, event-driven patterns, and cloud components. You will influence frontend quality and alignment by providing guidance and review for React + TypeScript implementations. You will improve operational performance by diagnosing complex production issues and driving optimizations that enhance stability and user experience. You will accelerate engineering efficiency by championing AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and building reusable frameworks and internal tooling. Full‑Stack Leadership You will guide engineering direction end‑to‑end, ensuring backend, frontend, integration, and data layers align with modern engineering standards. You will uplift engineering talent by mentoring developers across various career levels in system design, performance, clean coding, and secure engineering practices. You will raise the technical bar by establishing and enforcing consistent architectural patterns and engineering best practices across teams. QA & Automation Leadership You will elevate product quality by defining and executing an end‑to‑end quality strategy across manual, automated, API, and regression testing. You will expand automation coverage across UI (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright) and API layers, enabling faster and safer releases. You will ensure predictable release quality by enforcing quality gates, reducing regression leakage, and improving test maturity. You will empower QA engineers by guiding the design of robust test frameworks and validation strategies for dashboards, analytics, and data workflows. DevOps & Platform Leadership CI/CD Evolution: Guide the evolution of pipelines to support backend, frontend, and automation. Infrastructure: Influence containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and deployment strategies. Observability: Partner with DevOps/SRE to enhance logging, metrics, tracing, and platform stability. DevSecOps: Lead implementation of security best practices (static analysis, dependency scanning, security gating). Team Leadership & People Development You will build a high‑performing engineering organization by managing and developing engineers across multiple experience levels. You will drive career growth through structured mentorship, performance feedback, and personalized development plans. You will foster an engineering culture of excellence built on accountability, continuous learning, craftsmanship, and psychological safety. You will drive cross-functional alignment with Product, Architecture, Security, and Program teams to ensure clear direction and strategic prioritization. Delivery & Execution Ownership You will drive end‑to‑end delivery by owning roadmaps, sprint execution, and release outcomes with predictable velocity and quality. You will bring visibility and transparency through tracking KPIs such as velocity, quality metrics, coverage, deployment frequency, and operational trends. You will remove blockers early and mitigate risks proactively to ensure that teams stay aligned and execution remains friction‑free. You Will Love This Job If You Have You have 12–15 years of strong software engineering experience and enjoy staying hands‑on with code while also leading people and growing teams. You bring deep expertise in either Java + Spring Boot or Python microservices (FastAPI/Flask/Django) and love solving complex engineering problems in modern distributed systems. You thrive in cloud‑native environments, especially on AWS, and you enjoy designing scalable, fault‑tolerant microservices. You are comfortable reviewing and guiding frontend work (React + TypeScript) even if your primary strength is backend or platform engineering. You enjoy working closely with DevOps/SRE and have strong exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Docker, cloud deployments, and observability tools. You believe in a strong quality culture and have solid understanding of automation frameworks, API/UI testing, and quality governance practices. You have successfully led cross‑functional engineering teams across development and QA disciplines, and you enjoy mentoring engineers at various career stages. You are energized by Agile ways of working and feel confident driving cross‑team delivery, sprint execution, capacity planning, and release management. Leads with technical depth while inspiring teams with clarity and vision. Communicates openly, mentors effectively, and can navigate complex situations with calm and clarity. Brings a strong sense of ownership, driving outcomes with discipline and accountability. Builds a collaborative and empowering engineering culture where people feel safe to innovate. Makes data‑driven decisions, balances tradeoffs, and thinks strategically about long‑term impact. Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other cloud‑native tooling. Background in BI/dashboard testing, analytics‑driven platforms, or data visualization systems. Hands-on experience with AI‑driven engineering workflows, automation accelerators, or agentic tools. Exposure to performance, security, or load testing practices. Experience working in SaaS, multi‑tenant, or large-scale distributed systems where reliability and performance matter. KPIs and Success Metrics Strategic Impact: Drive technical decisions and deliver high-impact solutions across multiple products, influencing product strategy through technical expertise. Architecture & Quality: Ensure architectural integrity and scalability of full-stack applications while achieving predictable, high-quality releases with reduced defect leakage. Operational Excellence: Achieve zero-downtime deployments and robust monitoring on AWS environments, enhancing overall system stability, performance, and observability. Innovation & Efficiency: Lead the adoption of AI-powered developer tools, set coding standards for efficiency, and increase development velocity (reducing lead time to production). Team Growth: Drive measurable growth and skill uplift of team members, fostering a high-performing engineering culture. About Us Don’t have all the skills/experience mentioned above? At Granicus, we are trying to build diverse, inclusive teams. We do not have degree requirements for most of our roles. If you don’t meet every requirement above but are excited to learn more, we encourage you to apply. We might just be able to find another role that could be a perfect fit! Security and Privacy Requirements Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program. Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.