Namely’s mission is to help mid-sized companies build a better workplace. We’re an HR, payroll, and benefits platform that provides the technology, data, and support that HR professionals need and employees love to use. People are at the center of everything we do, and we believe every company and employee deserves a great workplace, supported by innovative HR technology. At Namely, we are problem solvers, self-starters, and obsessed with creating the best experience for our clients.

Do you love leading a team of software developers, acting as a mentor and encouraging their careers? Does the opportunity balance managing a team while also contributing your own code sound like your kind of challenge? Can you lead collaboration both within your team and cross functionally with other engineering and technology teams?

Namely is looking for a Manager of Software Engineering to lead a team within our Engineering organization. As the Manager of Software Engineering, you will partner with the leaders in Engineering and Product to deliver and ensure the best possible experience for both internal and external customers. You will be driving the best practices and standards for software development at Namely. 

Responsibilities  

• Lead, support, and guide a feature team engineers in software engineering and career development.
• Interview, hire and grow team as needed.
• Contribute to the team’s code base as in IC writing code, architecting solutions and participating in code reviews.
• Participate, facilitate and assist product owners, software engineers and QA analysts in all agile ceremonies and processes.

Requirements  

• A minimum of 1 year of applicable experience in leading and managing a group of engineers. 
• Experience building, shipping and maintaining web apps that are reliable, testable and maintainable.
• The ability to attract, interview, develop and retain top talent.
• Strong analytical and technical skills to identify critical and impacting issues, escalate them and drive them to resolution.
• BS or BA or equivalent experience. 

Nice to Have 

• Fluency in one or more server-side programming language (preferably C#, Ruby, Go)
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with .Net Core 
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS

About Namely

Namely was founded in 2012 to create an HR platform as intuitive as social media, but powerful enough to support the complexity of today’s workforce. Our belief is that great companies are built on a great employee experience, which is why we created the first HR platform employees love to use. In fact, unlike most traditional HR software, 78% of our clients’ employees log in to Namely at least once per month! Namely is backed by some amazing VCs including Sequoia, and serves companies in just about every industry and state nationwide. We love mid-sized companies because they’re mission-driven, client-obsessed, and care deeply about their employees... just like us. We believe in giving you the tools you need to do the best work of your career, and we’re just getting started.

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