Staff Software Engineering Manager

Remote

About ExpertVoice

We work with hundreds of the world’s most respected consumer brands – companies like Garmin, Carhartt, Ariat, TaylorMade, Brooks, REI and more – to engage influential everyday experts, and to build, track and reward their helpful expertise.

At ExpertVoice, we are proud to have cultivated a community of individuals who embody our core values. ExpertVoice employees are authentic, driven, bold and give a damn. We believe that our people are the heart and soul of our organization and their commitment to these values are what drives our success. When you join ExpertVoice, you become part of a team that is united by a shared passion for excellence and a desire to make an impact.

Summary

ExpertVoice is seeking a Staff Software Engineering Manager, reporting to the VP of Engineering, to lead and develop a high-performing team of software development engineers. This role combines active software development with direct people management, including coaching, performance management, and career development.

You will be responsible for architecting and delivering high-quality, scalable, and reliable software systems, with clear accountability for both technical outcomes and overall quality of delivery. This role sets a high bar for system design, code quality, and engineering practices, while remaining actively engaged in development by contributing code and leading by example in testing and engineering practices.

This role operates with an AI-first mindset, actively using modern AI-assisted development tools, coaching engineers on their effective use, and driving the evolution of the team’s software development lifecycle to fully leverage these capabilities. In parallel, you will partner with engineering leaders to evolve testing and development practices toward a shift-left model, establishing a strong culture of developer-owned quality where engineers are responsible for building, validating, and operating their software through automated testing, continuous integration, and production observability.

The ideal candidate is a backend-focused full stack engineer with deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and SQL, and is comfortable contributing across the stack when needed. This is a player-coach role that continues to contribute to system design and implementation while developing engineers and driving high-quality execution in an Agile environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a small team of software development engineers, including coaching, career development, performance management, and fostering a high-performing and collaborative team environment, while hiring and building the team over time.
• Contribute directly as a hands-on software development engineer by designing and implementing scalable backend systems, services, and web applications that power ExpertVoice web and mobile experiences.
• Lead architecture and system design for scalable software systems, setting a high technical bar for system design, code quality, and engineering practices across the team.
• Own the quality, performance, and reliability of systems delivered by the team, holding engineers accountable for validating their work through strong automated testing and development practices.
• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve testing and development practices toward a more shift-left model, where quality is integrated into development workflows through validation at appropriate layers, effective code reviews, and production feedback loops.
• Improve engineering productivity and developer experience by evaluating and optimizing modern development tools, and continuously assessing emerging AI technologies for their impact on engineering workflows, productivity, and software quality.
• Lead the adoption of AI-first development practices by coaching engineers on effective use of AI tools, identifying high-impact use cases, establishing best practices, and driving changes to development workflows to fully integrate AI into the software development lifecycle.
• Drive successful delivery of engineering work by providing technical leadership, planning and prioritizing work, and collaborating on resource allocation across projects, ensuring predictable delivery of high-quality software within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering to design solutions, clarify requirements, and deliver features aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to align architectural decisions, share best practices, and drive improvements to the overall engineering platform and development processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining production software systems.
• Demonstrated experience operating at a Senior or Staff Software Engineer level, including ownership of system architecture and technical design.
• Strong backend engineering expertise with Java, Spring / Spring Boot, and SQL, including designing and building scalable APIs and backend services.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, scalability, and system tradeoffs.
• Proven experience managing software development engineers, including direct people management, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable code with strong automated test coverage (unit and integration) and maintain high engineering quality standards within a team.
• Experience working in or helping evolve teams toward shift-left testing practices, where developers take increasing ownership of quality through automated testing and CI/CD workflows.
• Proficiency with modern development workflows and tooling, including source control, code reviews, and CI/CD practices with automated testing and quality gates.
• Experience debugging, troubleshooting, and supporting production systems.
• Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools in day-to-day engineering workflows, including code generation, code review, and testing, and advocating for their effective use by sharing best practices within a team.
• Experience evaluating AI-assisted development tools and guiding decisions on their adoption by helping teams understand their impact on engineering workflows, productivity, and software quality.
• Demonstrated ability to drive improvements in engineering practices, including testing strategy, development workflows, or team productivity.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively influence technical decisions and align cross-functional stakeholders, including product, UX, and engineering teams.
• Experience participating in or leading technical hiring processes, including technical interviews and candidate evaluation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing across the stack, with familiarity in modern frontend technologies such as JavaScript / TypeScript and frameworks like React.
• Experience designing or building high-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
• Experience working in or helping evolve teams toward developer-owned quality models, where testing and validation are integrated into development workflows rather than handled in a separate QA phase.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of new development tools or practices within an engineering team, including AI-assisted development and developer-owned quality practices, by establishing best practices and enabling effective use across the team.
• Experience working in collaborative Agile environments with continuous delivery and iterative development practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

The Benefits of Being on the ExpertVoice Team:

• Compensation: Enjoy competitive pay, plus the chance to earn bonuses through our Company performance plan and annual merit increases.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, with coverage extended to eligible dependents. Additionally, our benefits include flexible spending accounts (FSA), health savings accounts (HSA), life insurance, and both short- and long-term disability.
• Generous Parental Leave: Welcome your new addition with up to 15 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time employees.
• 401(k) with Employer Match: Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan and employer match.
• Work-life Flexibility: Freedom to work from anywhere in the Continental USA. This role is fully remote and operates on a 40-hour workweek. Team members are expected to be working and available during core hours of 10:00am-3:00pm MT, Monday-Friday (unless otherwise communicated). The remaining work hours must be aligned with and approved by the manager, allowing for flexibility while supporting team collaboration and business needs.
• Exclusive Employee Incentives: clients often extend exclusive incentive purchase programs to EV employees.

The approximate compensation range for this role is a base of $190,000 to $225,000 (annually) with a 10% performance bonus. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, certifications and geographic location. 

ExpertVoice is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.