Software Engineering Manager - Genea

Company Introduction

Genea was built on a foundation of listening to and serving our commercial real estate customers' needs starting with our flagship Overtime HVAC product. Over the years, we’ve earned the trust and loyalty of 21 of the top 25 largest commercial real estate companies in the US and continue to prove our value to them every day. Our clients depend on us to develop value-added technology solutions to solve other pain points in their operations. We have grown our product portfolio to serve the complex and expanding needs of property teams.

Genea is a family of solutions designed to improve commercial real estate operations through cutting-edge technology. Revolutionize access control, streamline overtime HVAC, and economize submeter billing. Our host of cloud-based, automated solutions are built to cut costs, reduce admin times, and maximize the tenant experience.

Experiencing enormous growth with aggressive expansion plans, Genea is expanding a Software Development and Operations center in India and is looking for dynamic engineering leaders who can become part of this successful growth story and partner in creating a world-class team and products.

We are fully remote since pre-COVID times. We're US-based, with a development centre in Ahmedabad, India.

Job Overview

Genea is looking for a Software Engineering Manager to help grow our development team. You will participate in the full SDLC from preliminary system analysis to testing and deployment. This hybrid-engineering role includes building high-quality, fully performing software that meets quality and software development standards alongside a great team.

Responsibilities

• Drive team efforts and cultivate high engineering standards.
• Maintain a keen eye on code quality, scalability, maintainability, and readability.
• Apply a solution-oriented mindset geared toward high-load system capacity.
• Estimate, plan, and delegate engineering work across teams.
• Manage engineers across large engineering groups to keep them aligned and focused on team goals.
• Drive the design, strategy, and execution of software development projects to support product roadmaps.
• Lead technology architecture and development aligned with product needs.
• Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple Scrum teams.
• Monitor and continuously update team metrics for engineering and operational excellence.
• Lead Scrum teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features and address technical debt.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers on new products and features.
• Implement a data-driven approach to execution to drive transparency.

Requirements

• 8+ years of total software engineering experience, including 3+ years of relevant experience as an engineering manager or team lead.
• Experience in microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Proficient in backend technologies, preferably JavaScript (open to other languages).
• Proficient in frontend technologies, preferably React (or other JavaScript frameworks like Angular, Vue, etc.).
• Proficient in database technologies like MongoDB or RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Deep understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) and experience guiding teams using agile practices.
• Experience in work estimation, resource allocation, and delegation.
• Understanding of automated testing practices (unit and integration testing).
• Strong communication and articulation skills with the ability to explain complex problems over written and verbal channels.
• Strategic thinker capable of formulating product and engineering strategies.
• Prior experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams across multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills.
• Experience working with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, RDS, SQS) is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment with remote work options.
• 24 days of PTO and 10 company holidays.
• Comprehensive leave options (maternity, paternity, adoption, wedding, and bereavement leaves).
• Family health insurance and personal accident coverage beyond CTC.
• Access to personal development courses and learning platforms.
• 5-day work schedule for work-life balance.
• Regular social and philanthropic events.