Manager, Software Engineering
As a remote-first organization headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie values meaningful in-person connection and collaboration that strengthens our teams, supports our clients, and enhances our culture. While travel requirements vary by role, periodic travel may be required to support business objectives, team collaboration, customer engagements, training, and company events. Candidates should be able and willing to travel as needed to fulfill the responsibilities of the role.
· Lead one or more Agile development squads within the Software Engineering group, delivering scalable and high-quality platform capabilities and client solutions.
· Partner closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects and the teams to translate business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.
· Drive end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, high quality, and alignment with product and client implementation goals.
· Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and performance feedback, helping them grow their skills and careers.
· Contribute to the design and development of modern distributed systems and microservices architectures.
· Champion strong engineering practices, including code quality, automated testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
· Work with QA and SDET teams to improve test automation coverage and quality engineering practices across Agile squads.
· Demonstrated ability to define and evolve CI/CD strategies and infrastructure, enabling automated, secure, and efficient deployments.
· Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that drives team momentum, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
What you need to be successful
· 8–10 years of software development experience, with 2+ years of engineering leadership or team management.
· Proven experience leading Agile development teams delivering production-grade software systems.
· Hands-on expertise in modern backend and frontend technologies (e.g., Java, Spring, Angular) and testing methodologies.
· Strong understanding of modern Java architecture including event-driven design, Kafka, pub/sub messaging patterns, and scalable microservices.
· Familiarity with event-driven design and messaging platforms such as Kafka or similar pub/sub systems.
· Experience running production workloads in cloud-based, containerized environments using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
· Demonstrated ability to define and evolve CI/CD strategies and infrastructure, enabling automated, secure, and efficient deployments.
· Knowledge of test automation strategy and frameworks, including test coverage analysis, parallel test execution, and integration into CI pipelines.
· Experience with testing tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Rest Assured, Postman, SoapUI, or similar frameworks and test-first development approaches, preferably BDD.
· Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization.
· Ability to mentor engineers, drive team accountability, and maintain focus on delivering high-quality outcomes.
Skills
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- Will you require a visa sponsorship or the transfer of a Visa now or in the future in order to work in the US? (for example, H1B Visa) optional
- Are you willing to submit a drug screen and background check?* optional
- What is your current location (State)? optional
- How did you learn about this specific role at Kobie? (Select the most accurate answer) optional
- How many years of experience do you have? optional
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- Which best describes Kobie as a company?
- As a remote-first company, Kobie believes flexibility and meaningful in-person connection can go hand in hand. While travel requirements vary by role, employees may periodically travel for team collaboration, customer meetings, training, and company events, including visits to our headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. Are you able and willing to travel as needed to support these activities?
- What is your annual salary expectation for a new opportunity? optional
- Are you flexible if the budget is slightly outside of your desired range? optional
- You're inheriting a squad of 6 engineers that has been delivering features inconsistently—sprint velocity swings 30% week-to-week, and retrospectives surface blame vs. solutions. As the new manager, what's your primary lever for stabilizing delivery in the first 60 days?
- Your squad is tasked with building a new feature that requires real-time notifications to multiple downstream services (payment processing, audit logging, client dashboard updates). The team proposes a synchronous HTTP call chain. What's your concern and recommendation?
- Your squad currently deploys via manual scripts; deployments take 2 hours and frequently fail mid-release, requiring rollback. You have a budget to improve this. Which approach would you prioritize and why?
- Your squad's test suite takes 45 minutes to run, blocking PRs and slowing down feedback loops. The team suggests removing flaky integration tests to speed up the build. What's your response?
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- If you were referred by a Kobie employee, please list their name. Leave blank if not referred. optional