Software Engineering Manager (Full-Stack)

Diesel Laptops is dedicated to revolutionizing the commercial truck and off-highway vehicle repair industry. They are seeking a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of full-stack engineers in building and operating real-time, data-driven applications, while focusing on team leadership, delivery, and engineering quality.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor a team of 5–7 engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack domains
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
• Own team technical delivery against product and platform priorities
• Maintain and continuously improve engineering standards, code quality expectations, and review practices
• Work directly with Project Manager to drive sprint planning, prioritization, and execution consistency
• Partner with Product, Data, and DevOps teams on cross-functional initiatives
• Support hiring, onboarding, and contractor management
• Contribute selectively to production code in high-impact areas
• Lead design and architectural decisions across full stack development
• Perform high-quality code reviews across React, React Native, Django, and related frameworks
• Set technical direction and patterns for the team (not primary feature ownership)
• Step in on critical issues, incidents, or high-risk deliverables
• Guide backend architecture with a focus on data modeling, schema design, and reliable data transformations, particularly in Python-based application logic, ensuring clean system boundaries and consistency across servicesShape frontend architecture (React, TanStack ecosystem preferred)
• Contribute to mobile strategy (React Native or Flutter)
• Ensure clean integration with data pipelines and ML-driven systems
• Promote API-first and modular design principles
• Support the gradual migration away from AWS Lambdas and PHP services
• Support safe migration of functionality into the core application stack (Django / Python)
• Ensure continuity of business logic while improving maintainability and observability
• Identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate, or eliminate redundant services
• Improve delivery predictability and reduce bottlenecks
• Ensure high-quality releases with proper testing and observability
• Balance feature delivery with technical debt and platform investments
• Drive accountability and ownership within the team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience with backend systems using Python for data processing and transformation logic
• 1+ years of engineering management or strong technical leadership experience
• Production experience with: Backend: Django (preferred), or Rails / Spring Boot, Frontend: React (TanStack ecosystem a strong plus), React Native (Expo ecosystem a strong plus), APIs: RESTful design and integration, Databases: SQL (Postgres preferred)
• Proven ability to lead teams while staying technically credible
• Experience with real-time or data-driven systems
• Familiarity with ML/data-integrated applications
• Ability to decompose and consolidate distributed logic into maintainable application services
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and CI/CD systems
• Experience improving engineering processes and team performance