Software Engineering Manager
RightHand Robotics (RHR) is building a world-class team to solve the biggest problem in ecommerce logistics: how to fulfill orders, despite demand that exceeds available labor. Our cutting-edge robotic picking systems manipulate hundreds of thousands of items -- it’s a software-driven, hardware-enabled technology that meets the increasing demands of e-commerce order fulfillment and other industries.
As the team scales, we're looking for an experienced manager to lead the software infrastructure development team. The ideal candidate will be an effective servant leader who is able to act as a catalyst for team success. In addition to people management aspects of the job, this manager will have technical responsibility for evolving the underlying infrastructure of our product.
You:
- Are collaborative by nature
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Enjoy challenges and solving problems
- Are a self-starter
- Enjoy a fast-paced start-up environment with a bias towards action
- Are ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities
You will:
- Be Product Owner of the Infrastructure team
- Directly manage a team of developers
- Coach the team in Agile values, principles, and practices
- Hire world class team members
- Drive software projects through the entire development lifecycle
- Collaborate with product owners and product managers to write user stories, and prioritize them for the team
- Influence future product/program direction
- Provide technical guidance
Required skills/experience:
- BS in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of production software development experience through the complete software development life cycle
- 5+ years experience in people management
- 7+ years of Python development experience
- 7+ years working in a Linux development environment
- Experience in agile development practices methodologies and tools
Bonus:
- Warehouse experience
- Robotics experience
- Prior start-up experience
- Experience as a Product Owner
- Experience with Release Engineering
- Experience with Debian package management
- Experience with Atlassian products: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
- Experience working with offshore teams
- Experience managing multi-cloud/edge services at scale.
Our perks include:
- The opportunity to make an immediate and visible impact in an early stage company with lots of potential
- Hybrid work model
- Passionate and fun teammates
- Flexible vacation and work schedule
- Generous premium coverage for medical and dental plans
- Robots, galore!
RightHand Robotics (RHR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We have an ongoing commitment to the creation of a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. RHR recruits, hires, trains, and promotes individuals in all job titles without regard to race, color, sex, religion, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, height, weight, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. At RHR, we are committed to a fair and equitable workplace where everyone is a respected and a valued member of the team.