Software Engineering Manager

About the role

Software Engineering Manager

Career Team

Location: Remote (Philippines)

Work Hours: Night Shift (flexible within the range of 6:00 PM – 7:00 AM PHT, with overlap with U.S. teams)

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Salary: PHP 80,000 - PHP 120,000 / month

About Career Team

At Career Team, we are building software that improves access to opportunity, workforce development, and support systems at scale. Through Career Edge, we help connect people with tools and services that can change lives.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and supporting Career Edge. This role is ideal for a strong technical leader who enjoys people management, shipping product, and improving team execution.

This is not a company-wide executive leadership role. Instead, it is focused on:

- Owning delivery for a defined product or platform area

- Managing engineers directly

- Improving engineering quality and velocity

- Partnering closely with Product, Design, QA, and U.S.-based stakeholders

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Delivery

- Lead cross-functional engineering teams

- Own sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk management

- Partner with Product and Design to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans

- Remove blockers and improve team operating rhythm across a distributed environment

- Drive visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work

Agile Process & Team Operating Rhythm

- Establish and continuously improve a disciplined Scrum/Agile process — sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives that actually change behavior

- Partner with Product to keep the backlog groomed, well-estimated, and prioritized at least one to two sprints ahead

- Drive accurate estimation and sprint commitment; track velocity, throughput, and cycle time to make delivery predictable rather than optimistic

- Enforce clear definitions of ready and done, including test coverage, code review, and documentation standards

- Run blameless retrospectives and close the loop on action items sprint over sprint

- Adapt ceremonies to a distributed, night-shift team — async-first updates, tight written communication, and minimal meeting overhead

- Coach engineers on breaking work into small, independently shippable increments

Technical Guidance

- Provide technical leadership across the team's modern web stack and cloud infrastructure

- Review designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths

- Support scalable, secure, and maintainable system design within your team's domain