Software Engineer Manager

NCSA College Recruiting is part of IMG Academy, the world’s leading sports education brand that empowers student-athletes. The Software Engineering Manager role is responsible for leading a team of software engineers to implement platform engineering systems, ensuring engineering excellence and impactful product outcomes for athletes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4 - 6 software engineers across varying experience levels
• Own the full employee lifecycle for your team: hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and retention
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide direct, actionable feedback that helps engineers grow
• Work with other technical leaders to create a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement
• Work across engineering teams to set and uphold engineering standards for code quality, testing, security, and system design
• Participate in and guide architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable
• Stay technically engaged enough to meaningfully review design documents, unblock engineers, and assess trade-offs — without being in the critical path of delivery
• Champion engineering best practices across the broader engineering organization
• Drive reduction of technical debt and proactively manage platform health
• Write and work with your engineers to develop loosely coupled, well tested, and maintainable code
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to craft technical solutions that meet internal and external customer needs
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams to employ standard infrastructure components, release code with increasing volume and velocity in a self-service fashion and meet company security standard
• Identify and remove blockers, manage dependencies across teams, and escalate risks early
• Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform investments
• Provide on-call support on a rotating basis with your team (roughly 1 week per month; very low incident rate)

Requirements:

• 5+ years minimum experience in back-end or full-stack software engineering using systems programming languages like Python or Go, with 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role
• Experience with back-end development of distributed systems
• Experience with cloud-based development environments (primarily AWS)
• Experience with 12-factor applications and modern development practices
• Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational data stores (e.g. Redis, OpenSearch)
• Familiarity with event-driven application architecture concepts
• Familiarity with software monitoring, telemetry, and incident response handling
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and business context for engineers
• Ability to provide on-call support on a rotating basis is required
• Experience with generative AI programming assistants a plus
• Experience working with and applying engineering metrics to increase the effectiveness of an engineering team
• Global compensation and benefits experience
• Bilingual is a plus