General DescriptionWe are seeking an Engineering Manager to found our Corporate Integrations team. You will hire its engineers, establish its practices, and build its relationships with stakeholders across the business. This team will own integrations for the corporate systems that support our logistics business, such as finance, billing, and procurement. In practice that means moving data between systems and building APIs to provide a clean access layer to those systems for other engineering teams within Crane. This is primarily a leadership role, with hands-on contribution expected early as the team forms. This is the first role on a new team, which you will grow to three engineers. Our business stakeholders know their processes deeply, and a core part of this role is turning that knowledge into buildable integration designs and APIs. Your team owns and shapes its backlog, and the roadmap is driven in close partnership with the business. Our software is built in F# on AWS. Deep C# or other .NET experience with a willingness to lead a functional-programming team is welcome. Prior functional programming experience is a plus. This is a fully remote position within the United States and reports to the Director of Software Integrations.
Essential Job Functions- Build the Corporate Integrations team from the ground up by recruiting and hiring three engineers.
- Lead, mentor, and manage the team day to day, ensuring high performance and professional growth.
- Work directly with business stakeholders to elicit and document requirements, translating process descriptions into well-scoped integration designs.
- Own and prioritize the team's backlog in partnership with business stakeholders who drive the roadmap.
- Oversee the software development lifecycle for the team's integrations and APIs, from requirements through deployment and maintenance.
- Drive engineering best practices as part of a maturing engineering organization, including automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, design reviews, monitoring, and observability.
- Ensure the security, scalability, and reliability of the team's integrations and APIs through effective architecture and coding practices.
- Contribute code and technical direction as needed, particularly in the team's early stages.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and engineering leadership to align with organization-wide standards.
Education and Experience Required
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a managerial or leadership role.
- Deep expertise within the .NET ecosystem. Our systems are written in F#, and leaders with a strong C# background who are eager to lead a functional[1]programming team are welcome.
- Solid working knowledge of a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong understanding of relational databases and distributed systems
- Comfort with ambiguity and a demonstrated ability to work with non[1]technical stakeholders to discover, clarify, and document requirements
- Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively
- Must be eligible to work in the United States on an ongoing basis without sponsorship
Preferred
- F# or other functional programming experience
- AWS experience specifically (we use ECS, Aurora, and related services)
- Kafka or other streaming/messaging systems experience
- Prior experience building a team from scratch
- Experience at an early-stage startup, or standing up a new team inside a larger company
Physical Requirements - Talking, hearing and using hands to operate computer equipment
- Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus
- Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office equipment.
- Job may require punctual attendance and regular presence on-site at the assigned work location
