Career TEAM
Career TEAM
201 – 500 Employees
ConsultingEducationNon-profit
Career TEAM is a workforce services provider that helps address unemployment and poverty through career support, training, and employment programs. The company combines high-touch services with technology, including its Career EDGE software, to support job seekers throughout the United States. Working with government organizations and workforce development boards, Career TEAM delivers case management, training, and business services designed to help people find meaningful work and progress in their careers.

Software Engineering Manager - Philippines (Remote)

Lead engineering delivery for Career TEAM’s Career Edge workforce-development platform. Manage people, technical quality, Agile execution, and responsible AI adoption across a distributed team.

Description

  • Lead the engineering team responsible for building and supporting Career Edge
  • Own delivery for an assigned product or platform area
  • Manage engineers directly and foster their professional growth
  • Coordinate work across cross-functional engineering teams
  • Oversee sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk mitigation
  • Convert roadmap priorities into actionable plans with Product and Design
  • Resolve blockers and strengthen execution in a distributed environment
  • Improve visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work
  • Establish and continuously improve Scrum and Agile practices
  • Keep the backlog refined, estimated, and prioritized
  • Use velocity, throughput, cycle time, and DORA metrics to improve delivery
  • Uphold standards for testing, code review, documentation, and ready/done criteria
  • Facilitate blameless retrospectives and ensure actions are completed
  • Tailor processes for a distributed night-shift team with async-first communication
  • Provide technical direction across the modern web stack and cloud infrastructure
  • Review system designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths
  • Advance CI/CD, observability, testing, code review, and incident-response practices
  • Promote responsible AI use throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Assess and implement tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, agentic workflows, and MCP integrations
  • Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and development plans
  • Support performance management, recruitment, onboarding, and retention
  • Mentor senior engineers and developing technical leaders
  • Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, business teams, and U.S.-based stakeholders
  • Explain tradeoffs, risks, and delivery status to technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements

  • At least six years of professional software engineering experience
  • Two to four or more years leading teams as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or equivalent
  • Track record delivering production software in a SaaS, web-platform, or product-led environment
  • Experience working with distributed or remote teams
  • Demonstrated success implementing or advancing Scrum and Agile practices
  • Strong full-stack experience with the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem
  • Hands-on proficiency with Node.js, React, Next.js, and API design and integration
  • Experience operating production workloads on a major cloud provider; AWS is preferred
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices
  • Strong grasp of maintainable architecture, engineering quality, and delivery tradeoffs
  • Preferred experience with Nest.js; production-scale MongoDB or MySQL; Docker and containerized deployments; and broader DevOps or infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Strong communication, mentoring, and coaching skills
  • Ability to balance delivery speed, product quality, and business priorities
  • Able to engage deeply with technical work without becoming a bottleneck
  • Comfort working through ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
  • Practical experience experimenting with AI development tools and a genuine interest in their use
  • Successful completion of criminal, prior-employment, and education background verification

Benefits

  • Build technology designed to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives
  • Join a mission-driven team working across countries
  • Remain connected to product and engineering while developing as a leader
  • Help define how Career TEAM grows its engineering organization
  • Work in an environment that actively supports AI-enabled software development with relevant tools and ownership
  • Compensation is based on experience, qualifications, and overall fit
  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Background screening and verification are part of the hiring process

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