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Fictiv is a digital manufacturing platform that empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate product innovation. The company integrates a vast catalog of components with cloud-based tools, serving innovative companies across industries from autonomous vehicles to clean tech.
You will lead a high-performing engineering team of 5–8 engineers, combining deep technical expertise with people leadership. Your responsibilities include:
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent through regular feedback, performance management, and career growth planning; scale the team as needed.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities.
• Establish and improve team processes to enable iterative delivery, innovation, and high reliability.
• Drive near- and long-term improvements to engineering-wide activities: development practices, hiring/onboarding, team cohesion, and incident response.
• Resolve systemic obstacles to team health, system performance, and delivery.
• Foster a culture of transparency, safety, and continuous growth.
You will remain sufficiently hands-on to review technical designs, guide complex implementations, and unblock teams. You'll manage cross-functional dependencies, drive alignment across engineering and product, and lead delivery using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
REQUIREMENTS:
Management & Leadership:
• 12–18 years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role.
• Experience managing technical teams of 5–8 engineers with demonstrated ability to scale teams.
• Demonstrated experience in project planning and execution: scope definition, prioritization, risk management, and delivery tracking across multiple work streams.
• Strong ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineering talent.
• Proven ability to balance competing priorities while ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and long-term platform scalability.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
Technical Expertise:
• Strong working experience in platform and API development using Node.js and GraphQL.
• Frontend enablement experience using React and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native services on AWS, with understanding of scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, observability, operational readiness).
• Demonstrated technical judgment and problem-solving skills with ability to make informed trade-offs.
Communication & Collaboration:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a team.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
