Software Engineering Manager
TypeFull-time job
LocationPhilippines
Posted2 hours ago
Software Engineering Manager
Career TEAM
Location: Remote (Philippines)
Work Hours: Night Shift (flexible within the range of 6:00 PM – 7:00 AM PHT, with overlap with U.S. teams)
Reports to: Director of Engineering
About Career Team
At Career Team, we are building software that improves access to opportunity, workforce development, and support systems at scale. Through Career Edge, we help connect people with tools and services that can change lives.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and supporting Career Edge. This role is ideal for a strong technical leader who enjoys people management, shipping product, and improving team execution.
This is not a company-wide executive leadership role. Instead, it is focused on:
Owning delivery for a defined product or platform area
Managing engineers directly
Improving engineering quality and velocity
Partnering closely with Product, Design, QA, and U.S.-based stakeholders
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Delivery
Lead cross-functional engineering teams
Own sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk management
Partner with Product and Design to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans
Remove blockers and improve team operating rhythm across a distributed environment
Drive visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work
Agile Process & Team Operating Rhythm
Establish and continuously improve a disciplined Scrum/Agile process — sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives that actually change behavior
Partner with Product to keep the backlog groomed, well-estimated, and prioritized at least one to two sprints ahead
Drive accurate estimation and sprint commitment; track velocity, throughput, and cycle time to make delivery predictable rather than optimistic
Enforce clear definitions of ready and done, including test coverage, code review, and documentation standards
Run blameless retrospectives and close the loop on action items sprint over sprint
Adapt ceremonies to a distributed, night-shift team — async-first updates, tight written communication, and minimal meeting overhead
Coach engineers on breaking work into small, independently shippable increments
Technical Guidance
Provide technical leadership across the team's modern web stack and cloud infrastructure
Review designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths
Support scalable, secure, and maintainable system design within your team's domain
Improve engineering practices around CI/CD, code review, observability, testing, and incident response
Use delivery metrics such as DORA (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore) to identify bottlenecks and guide improvement
AI-Enabled Engineering
Champion AI adoption across the SDLC — planning, code generation, review, testing, documentation, and incident response
Set standards for responsible AI-assisted development: what gets reviewed, how quality bars hold, and where human judgment is non-negotiable
Evaluate and roll out AI tooling (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, agentic workflows, MCP-based integrations) and measure real impact on velocity and quality
Coach engineers to shift from writing every line to specifying, reviewing, and validating AI-generated work
Stay current as tooling evolves rapidly and bring practical ideas back to the team
People Management
Manage, coach, and develop software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth plans
Support performance management, hiring, onboarding, and retention
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, code quality, and continuous learning
Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with U.S.-based stakeholders during overlap hours
Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams to keep delivery aligned with company goals
Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and delivery status clearly to technical and non-technical partners
What We're Looking For
Experience
6+ years in software engineering
2–4+ years leading teams as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or equivalent
Experience delivering production software in a SaaS, web platform, or product-led environment
Experience working with distributed or remote teams
Demonstrated track record implementing or maturing Scrum/Agile practice on a team that previously lacked it
Technical Background
Required
Strong full-stack engineering background in the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem
Hands-on experience with Node.js and React / Next.js, and with designing and consuming APIs
Experience running production workloads on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery workflows
Strong understanding of maintainable architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and engineering quality
Nice to Have
Nest.js
MongoDB and/or MySQL at production scale
Docker and containerized deployment
Broader DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices
Leadership Traits
Strong communicator and coach
Comfortable balancing speed, quality, and business priorities
Able to go deep technically without becoming a bottleneck
Calm under ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving environment
Genuinely passionate about AI — actively experimenting, and opinionated about where it helps and where it doesn't
Why Join
Build technology that impacts real lives
Work with a mission-driven global team
Stay close to product and code while growing as a leader
Help shape how Career Team scales its engineering organization
Work somewhere AI is genuinely embraced — you will have the mandate and the tooling to modernize how software gets built here
Compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.
About Career Team:
Founded in 1996, Career Team is socially conscious organization that seeks to close the nation’s opportunity divide through government-funded workforce development programs designed to help individuals get the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to obtain quality employment. In addition to administering these programs, Career Team develops and leverages cutting-edge software tools to ignite transformative change within the workforce development industry. Career Team is revolutionizing the operational landscape for workforce development professionals through its Career Edge platform, which includes state-of-the-art job training tools and advanced case management systems. For more information see and .
Career Team’s outstanding record has resulted in numerous honors, including:
Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies
Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation
Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program
Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider
Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Background Check Requirements. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.
Originally posted on Himalayas
Career TEAM
Location: Remote (Philippines)
Work Hours: Night Shift (flexible within the range of 6:00 PM – 7:00 AM PHT, with overlap with U.S. teams)
Reports to: Director of Engineering
About Career Team
At Career Team, we are building software that improves access to opportunity, workforce development, and support systems at scale. Through Career Edge, we help connect people with tools and services that can change lives.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and supporting Career Edge. This role is ideal for a strong technical leader who enjoys people management, shipping product, and improving team execution.
This is not a company-wide executive leadership role. Instead, it is focused on:
Owning delivery for a defined product or platform area
Managing engineers directly
Improving engineering quality and velocity
Partnering closely with Product, Design, QA, and U.S.-based stakeholders
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Delivery
Lead cross-functional engineering teams
Own sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk management
Partner with Product and Design to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans
Remove blockers and improve team operating rhythm across a distributed environment
Drive visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work
Agile Process & Team Operating Rhythm
Establish and continuously improve a disciplined Scrum/Agile process — sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives that actually change behavior
Partner with Product to keep the backlog groomed, well-estimated, and prioritized at least one to two sprints ahead
Drive accurate estimation and sprint commitment; track velocity, throughput, and cycle time to make delivery predictable rather than optimistic
Enforce clear definitions of ready and done, including test coverage, code review, and documentation standards
Run blameless retrospectives and close the loop on action items sprint over sprint
Adapt ceremonies to a distributed, night-shift team — async-first updates, tight written communication, and minimal meeting overhead
Coach engineers on breaking work into small, independently shippable increments
Technical Guidance
Provide technical leadership across the team's modern web stack and cloud infrastructure
Review designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths
Support scalable, secure, and maintainable system design within your team's domain
Improve engineering practices around CI/CD, code review, observability, testing, and incident response
Use delivery metrics such as DORA (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore) to identify bottlenecks and guide improvement
AI-Enabled Engineering
Champion AI adoption across the SDLC — planning, code generation, review, testing, documentation, and incident response
Set standards for responsible AI-assisted development: what gets reviewed, how quality bars hold, and where human judgment is non-negotiable
Evaluate and roll out AI tooling (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, agentic workflows, MCP-based integrations) and measure real impact on velocity and quality
Coach engineers to shift from writing every line to specifying, reviewing, and validating AI-generated work
Stay current as tooling evolves rapidly and bring practical ideas back to the team
People Management
Manage, coach, and develop software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth plans
Support performance management, hiring, onboarding, and retention
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, code quality, and continuous learning
Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with U.S.-based stakeholders during overlap hours
Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams to keep delivery aligned with company goals
Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and delivery status clearly to technical and non-technical partners
What We're Looking For
Experience
6+ years in software engineering
2–4+ years leading teams as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or equivalent
Experience delivering production software in a SaaS, web platform, or product-led environment
Experience working with distributed or remote teams
Demonstrated track record implementing or maturing Scrum/Agile practice on a team that previously lacked it
Technical Background
Required
Strong full-stack engineering background in the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem
Hands-on experience with Node.js and React / Next.js, and with designing and consuming APIs
Experience running production workloads on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery workflows
Strong understanding of maintainable architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and engineering quality
Nice to Have
Nest.js
MongoDB and/or MySQL at production scale
Docker and containerized deployment
Broader DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices
Leadership Traits
Strong communicator and coach
Comfortable balancing speed, quality, and business priorities
Able to go deep technically without becoming a bottleneck
Calm under ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving environment
Genuinely passionate about AI — actively experimenting, and opinionated about where it helps and where it doesn't
Why Join
Build technology that impacts real lives
Work with a mission-driven global team
Stay close to product and code while growing as a leader
Help shape how Career Team scales its engineering organization
Work somewhere AI is genuinely embraced — you will have the mandate and the tooling to modernize how software gets built here
Compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.
About Career Team:
Founded in 1996, Career Team is socially conscious organization that seeks to close the nation’s opportunity divide through government-funded workforce development programs designed to help individuals get the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to obtain quality employment. In addition to administering these programs, Career Team develops and leverages cutting-edge software tools to ignite transformative change within the workforce development industry. Career Team is revolutionizing the operational landscape for workforce development professionals through its Career Edge platform, which includes state-of-the-art job training tools and advanced case management systems. For more information see and .
Career Team’s outstanding record has resulted in numerous honors, including:
Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies
Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation
Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program
Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider
Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Background Check Requirements. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.
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