[Hiring] Manager, Software Engineering @Rebellion Defense

Rebellion Defense is building the mission capabilities required for this software-defined era of defense. We are equipping our warfighters with the best software to detect, deter and outpace the modern adversary at speed and scale. We’ve brought together technologists who have built software products that transformed our way of life in the commercial sector with defense experts who deeply understand the mission and the stakes to build technology exclusively for defense and national security.

Our people are passionate about creating a company where technologists empower the military and our civil servants to solve some of the hardest problems in government. Rebellion Defense is driven by our mission — but a set of core values binds us together: we hire by them, operate through them, and uphold them in every decision we make for ourselves and for our customers.

We are hiring a Software Engineering Manager to join our team. While this role can be located anywhere in the United States, you may choose to work from our Washington, DC headquarters. Occasional travel may be required.  

As a Software Engineering Manager,  you will:

• Deliver quality software at significant scale as part of the engineering team.
• Work with teams to define and develop generalized APIs, capabilities, and services as part of an overall solution.
• Create SaaS product solutions leveraging multi-tenancy principles and advanced UX/UI style guides and workflow,
• Help define architecture and build services at scale using both on-prem, hybrid, and cloud infrastructure. 
• Demonstrate technical leadership through mentoring of others and communicating complexity to help drive outcomes. 
• Own issues end-to-end and have a growth mindset to help others succeed. 

Qualifications for this position include:

• 7+ years of professional work experience as a software engineering manager leading and building high caliber teams. 
• Prior professional work experience developing software and architectural solutions that are robust and provide extensibility. 
• Demonstrated collaboration and communications skills working with multidisciplinary teams and customer engagements,
• Ability to understand the tradeoff of technical debt and feature development and how to apply resources at an appropriate balance,
• Embrace and understand agile methodologies (such as SCRUM) and have demonstrated experience in driving agile teams and appropriate ceremonies,
• Deep knowledge of SaaS application architecture, design patterns, concurrency, resiliency, and cache.

Preferred Qualifications for this position include: 

• Prior work experience building software solutions using AI/NLP technologies
• Prior work experience managing remote engineering teams 
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills

We embrace diversity and difference, and believe that broadening the perspectives of our teams will help enable innovation and lead to better outcomes. We encourage your application even if you may not meet all the preferred qualifications. We work collaboratively as a team to support one another in our mission and promote professional development.

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $198,000  to $242,000 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity.  Benefits listed in this posting may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Rebellion Defense.

Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.

Rebellion Defense is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.  Rebellion Defense does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.

Rebellion’s products are subject to export controls, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). To work with our products, you must be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the US, a protected individual as defined by 8 USC 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the US Department of State or US Department of Commerce.

Rebellion Defense is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as they go through our job application and interview process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]

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