Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fleetworthy offers a complete technology suite for fleet readiness, focusing on safety and compliance, toll management, and weigh station bypass solutions. They are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead teams in developing financial and internal tooling systems, ensuring robust and scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and managing software development processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor teams of software developers, supporting their career growth and performance
- Manage team performance using engineering management metrics and software engineering best practices to drive continuous improvement and accountability
- Manage a portfolio of internal business applications, ensuring ongoing stability, performance, and scalability
- Oversee the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, planning, implementation, deployment, and support
- Partner with Product Management and collaborate to gather requirements, define scope, prioritize resources, and deliver practical, scalable software solutions
- Coordinate priorities and development schedules across multiple initiatives and applications
- Contribute to high-level system architecture and application design, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical best practices
- Be part of the team’s troubleshooting and problem-solving sessions including implementing, testing, and deploying proposed solutions
- Ensure adherence to coding standards, version control, testing practices, and release procedures
- Contribute to cross-team engineering culture and help identify and resolve systemic issues across teams
Skills
- Bachelor's level education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar degrees, or equivalent practical experience
- 9+ years of hands-on software development experience, including back-end services, APIs, and databases
- Experience in a leadership role as an engineering team lead and/or managing software teams — including 1–2 years of direct people management
- Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Architect mindset — think beyond the code to design systems that solve real problems creatively, scalably, maintainably
- Exposure and technical knowledge of C# or similar (e.g., Java) with the ability to design, understand, and review production-quality code
- Exposure and understanding of enterprise SQL systems, e.g., SQL Server, including schema design, performance tuning, and complex query development
- Self-Starter: self-directed; proactively identifies work and opportunities for improvement, removal of blockers, and drives initiatives forward
- Collaborative Leadership: Works with engineers, peer and upper managers, and across teams throughout the business towards success; seeks help and support openly and proactively, learning as they go
- Documentation & Organization: Communicates clearly, documents decisions and code thoroughly, and brings structure to ambiguous situations
- Monitoring Mindset: Understands observability — logs, metrics, and alerting — and knows how to troubleshoot and resolve production issues confidently
- Quality Assurance Mindset: Treats quality as a shared responsibility, not a handoff — champions testing at every stage of the SDLC, from unit and integration tests to end-to-end validation. Understands the value of test coverage, code reviews, and regression safety nets in maintaining a healthy, production-ready codebase
- Navigating Ambiguity: Thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments — comfortable making decisions with incomplete information
- Remote Experience: Comfortable working in distributed teams with async communication and a high degree of self-management
- Hands-on balance: Maintain the right mix of team leadership, collaboration, and direct technical contribution depending on the needs of the teams
- Comfortable leveraging AI coding tools to accelerate development understanding AI limitations and security implication
- Critically evaluating output for bias, errors, and correctness
- Open to learning and adopting new AI tools and workflows as the landscape evolves
- Experience in fleet management, transportation technology, or safety/compliance domains
- Experience in account, financial, and/or business application domains
Company Overview
Fleetworthy offers the only complete technology suite for fleet readiness, uniting safety and compliance, toll management, and weigh station bypass solutions. It was founded in 1983, and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.fleetworthy.com.