Manager Software Engineering

Core responsibilities:

• Writes clean, maintainable, and well-designed code that works and is understandable by teammates
• Analyzes technical requirements, architecture patterns, and software solution designs for projects and adapts the code to deliver
• Performs helpful code reviews, with a good balance of responsiveness and thoroughness
• Takes ownership of functional areas and projects
• Debugs and tunes performance of the system, including DB Modeling and APM
• Builds and maintains microservices made from monolithic applications
• Enforces Engineering standards, technical guidelines, principles and best practices
• Collaborates with peers, Product and lead engineers
• Helps shape Technology vision at Project level and distribute workload
• Manages team and conflicts, develop Engineers through regular mentoring, coaching, training, goal settings, one on ones, and performance reviews
• Maintains staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees

This role builds tools to make it possible and easy for the research community to make scientific investigations' data, results, and outcomes open, transparent, and reproducible, improving the alignment between scientific values and practices to enhance knowledge accumulation and application.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Demonstrates expert-level understanding of at least one or more commonly used languages, technologies, or frameworks, such as: Front-End: Angular and TypeScript (required), Back-End: Python and Django (recommended)
• Extensive experience in software development, scripting, and project management
• Managed at least 3 people for at least one year
• Strong and effective communicator with good oral and written communication skills with ability to communicate with a non-technical audience
• High level of interpersonal skills and ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of duties
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related field or equivalent experience
• At least 5 years programming experience (5-8 years of professional experience in software engineering preferred)

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary range: $115,000 - 130,000 annually
• 401(k) with employer match: COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance: COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days of paid time off and 5 days of sick leave in year one
• Paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition as well as for the employee’s own serious health condition
• Remote work with a Macbook and Google Workspace environment
• Flexibility in work scheduling with core hours of 11am–4pm ET for collaboration

The Center for Open Science (COS) builds tools to make it possible and easy for the research community to make scientific investigations' data, results, and outcomes open, transparent, and reproducible, improving the alignment between scientific values and practices to enhance knowledge accumulation and application.