Software Engineering Manager

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager 

Department: Technology

Reports to: CTO

Experience: 8+ years

Location: Ahmedabad, India (Remote option Available)

Company Introduction

Genea was built on a foundation of listening to and serving our commercial real estate customer’s needs starting with our flagship Overtime HVAC product. Over the years, we’ve earned the trust and loyalty of 21 of the top 25 largest commercial real estate companies in the US and continue to prove our value to them every day. Our clients depend on us to develop value-added technology solutions to solve other pain points in their operations. We have grown our product portfolio to serve the complex and expanding needs of property teams.

Genea is a family of solutions are designed to improve commercial real estate operations through cutting-edge technology. Revolutionize access control, streamline overtime HVAC, and economize submeter billing. Our host of cloud-based, automated solutions are built to cut costs, reduce admin times, and maximize the tenant experience.

Experiencing enormous growth with aggressive expansion plans, Genea is expanding a Software Development and Operations center in India and is looking for dynamic engineering leaders, who can become part of this already successful growth story, and partner in creating a world class team and products.

We are fully remote since pre-COVID times. We're US-based, with a development centre in Ahmedabad, India.

Job Overview

Genea is looking for a Engineering Lead to help grow our development team. You will participate in the full SDLC from preliminary system analysis to testing and deployment. This hybrid-engineering role includes building high quality and fully performing software that meets quality and software development standards alongside a great team.

What you would do, day-to-day?

• Drive team efforts
• Have a keen eye on code quality with code scalability, maintainability, readability in mind
• Have a solution-oriented mindset and high load capacity system in mind
• Estimate work, delegate work
• Manage the people on a large engineering team to keep them aligned and focused on achieving the team’s goals
• Drives the design, strategy, and execution of software development projects to support product roadmaps
• Lead technology architecture and development as per product needs
• Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple SCRUM teams
• Monitor, and continuously update, team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Ensure a consistent, regular process for assessment of goals and improvement of deliveries
• Lead many SCRUM teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features and fix prior mistakes
• Collaborate with Product Managers on new products and new features
• Implement data driven approach to execution to drive transparency

What are we looking for? 

• 8+ years of total experience and 3+ years of relevant work experience as team lead
• Experience in microservice and event driven architecture
• Proficient in backend technologies, preferably JavaScript, but we’re open to other technologies
• Proficient in frontend technologies, preferably React, but we’re open to any other JavaScript - based frameworks like Angular, Vue, etc
• Proficient in database technologies like MongoDB or RDBMS (We use PostgreSQL)
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) with experience guiding teams through planning, development, and rollout using best in industry agile