Software Engineering Manager
Opentrons - Long Island City, NY
posted 1 day ago
About the position
Opentrons Labworks, Inc. is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Opentrons Labworks is the parent company to business units Opentrons Robotics and Neochromosome. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating R&D operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. Through Neochromosome, biopharma and biotech at large can benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions. The Execution and Expansion software team is responsible for the software that powers our robotic liquid handling platform and peripherals. We're looking for an Engineering Manager that will lead approximately 10 software engineers responsible for maintaining and expanding the capabilities of our robotics platform. This includes everything from the embedded code, through the server layers, to the user facing applications. An Engineering Manager at Opentrons is a player-coach role that guides their team of direct reports and collaborates with product and design teams to deliver customer-driven outcomes. In addition to delivery and technical responsibilities, the Engineering Manager will also be responsible for guiding and developing engineers on their team through regular 1:1s, performance management and career growth planning. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of empowering people and delivering customer value. They have strong opinions (loosely held) about architecting reliable, flexible, and performant systems in both offline and cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute technical project plans enabling new capabilities on cross-functional feature teams.
- Collaborate with engineering, product management, and design teams to deliver new capabilities while maintaining a reliable platform.
- Advocate for engineering-driven initiatives into project prioritization, while articulating complex concepts to non-developers.
- Manage, mentor, coach, and grow an exceptional team of software engineers.
- Contribute code alongside the team in a manner that enables delivery without creating bottlenecks.
- Engage with our open-source community.
Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management
- Experience overseeing a team of engineers; assigning and reviewing work
- Experience hiring and training engineers
- 8+ years experience of writing code for customer-facing products
- Experience writing software for hardware
- Experience with React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node, and Python
- Experience with C/C++, embedded systems, embedded Linux (Open Embedded)
- Ability to bus communications, USB, SPI, Network, and robots
- Strong software engineering skills and fundamentals
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience guiding teams to create well-tested, resilient applications
- Experience with robotics and an eagerness to learn
- Interest in biology and an eagerness to learn
Nice-to-haves
- Contributions or active maintenance of open-source software
- Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines on cloud environments
- Experience project planning and setting timelines
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Equity packages
- Opportunities for growth
- 401(k) eligibility
- Various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave
