Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Fictiv exists to help product innovators create. Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv's four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.

Impact In This Role

At Fictiv, we enable product innovators to create. Our platform accelerates product creation, allowing our customers to push technological boundaries – from self-driving cars to low-cost water purification systems. We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can provide strong technical leadership while guiding and developing a high-performing engineering team. This role combines deep technical expertise with people leadership, focusing on building reliable, scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous growth.

What You'll Be Doing

Build a high-performing team where engineers can do their best work

• Coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent through regular feedback, performance management, and career growth planning, while helping scale the team as needed.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify objectives, and translate needs into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities.
• Establish and continually improve team processes to enable iterative delivery, innovation, and high reliability
• Drive near- and long-term improvements to engineering-wide activities such as development practices, hiring / onboarding, team cohesion, and incident response
• Resolve systemic obstacles to team health, system performance, and team delivery
• Embrace and extend a culture of transparency, safety, and growth.

Desired Traits

Management & Leadership Experience

• 12-15 years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role.
• Experience managing technical teams of 5-8 engineers with demonstrated ability to scale teams.
• Project planning and execution, including scope definition, prioritization, risk management, and delivery tracking across multiple work streams.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and drive alignment across engineering and product teams while leading delivery using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), including sprint planning, milestone management, and stakeholder communication.
• Track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineering talent
• Balance competing priorities while ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and long-term platform scalability.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.

Technical Expertise

• Strong working experience in platform and API development using Node.js and GraphQL, frontend enablement using React and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native services on AWS, with an understanding of scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Sufficient hands-on experience to review technical designs, guide complex implementations, and unblock teams when required.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Technical judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make informed trade-offs.

Communication And Collaboration Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a team.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.