Career TEAM

Workforce development consulting with government software

Software Engineering Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in Philippines₱80k - ₱120k /mo

About the Job

Requirements

At least 6 years of software engineering experience.
At least 2–4 years leading teams as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or equivalent.
Experience delivering production software in a SaaS, web platform, or product-led environment.
Experience working with distributed or remote teams.
A demonstrated track record implementing or maturing Scrum/Agile practice on a team that previously lacked it.
A strong full-stack engineering background in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.
Hands-on experience with Node.js, React or Next.js, and designing and consuming APIs.
Experience running production workloads on a major cloud platform; AWS is preferred.
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery workflows.
A strong understanding of maintainable architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and engineering quality.
Strong communication and coaching abilities.
Ability to balance speed, quality, and business priorities.
Ability to go deep technically without becoming a bottleneck.
Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity and in a fast-moving environment.
Active interest in AI, including experimentation and considered judgment about where it is useful.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional engineering teams.
Own sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk management.
Partner with Product and Design to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans.
Remove blockers and improve team operating rhythms across a distributed environment.
Drive visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work.
Establish and continuously improve Scrum/Agile processes, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives that result in behavioral changes.
Partner with Product to keep the backlog groomed, well-estimated, and prioritized at least one to two sprints ahead.
Drive accurate estimation and sprint commitment; track velocity, throughput, and cycle time to make delivery predictable.
Enforce clear definitions of ready and done, including standards for test coverage, code review, and documentation.
Run blameless retrospectives and follow through on action items from sprint to sprint.
Adapt ceremonies to a distributed night-shift team through asynchronous-first updates, clear written communication, and minimal meeting overhead.
Coach engineers on breaking work into small, independently shippable increments.
Provide technical leadership across the team's modern web stack and cloud infrastructure.
Review designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths.
Support scalable, secure, and maintainable system design within the team's domain.
Improve engineering practices for CI/CD, code review, observability, testing, and incident response.
Use DORA delivery metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and time to restore, to identify bottlenecks and guide improvement.
Champion AI adoption across the software development lifecycle, including planning, code generation, review, testing, documentation, and incident response.
Set standards for responsible AI-assisted development, including review expectations, quality standards, and cases where human judgment is essential.
Evaluate and roll out AI tooling, including Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, agentic workflows, and MCP-based integrations, and measure effects on velocity and quality.
Coach engineers to specify, review, and validate AI-generated work rather than writing every line themselves.
Stay current with evolving AI tools and bring practical ideas to the team.
Manage, coach, and develop software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth plans.
Support performance management, hiring, onboarding, and retention.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, code quality, and continuous learning.
Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.
Work closely with U.S.-based stakeholders during overlap hours.
Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams to align delivery with company goals.
Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and delivery status to technical and non-technical partners.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Nest.js.
Experience with MongoDB and/or MySQL at production scale.
Experience with Docker and containerized deployment.
Broader DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Software Engineering Manager

Career Team

Location: Remote (Philippines)

Work Hours: Night Shift (flexible within the range of 6:00 PM – 7:00 AM PHT, with overlap with U.S. teams)

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Salary: PHP 80,000 - PHP 120,000 / month

About Career Team

At Career Team, we are building software that improves access to opportunity, workforce development, and support systems at scale. Through Career Edge, we help connect people with tools and services that can change lives.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a hands-on Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building and supporting Career Edge. This role is ideal for a strong technical leader who enjoys people management, shipping product, and improving team execution.

This is not a company-wide executive leadership role. Instead, it is focused on:

Owning delivery for a defined product or platform area
Managing engineers directly
Improving engineering quality and velocity
Partnering closely with Product, Design, QA, and U.S.-based stakeholders

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Delivery

Lead cross-functional engineering teams
Own sprint planning, execution, delivery quality, and risk management
Partner with Product and Design to turn roadmap priorities into executable plans
Remove blockers and improve team operating rhythm across a distributed environment
Drive visibility, predictability, and accountability for committed work

Agile Process & Team Operating Rhythm

Establish and continuously improve a disciplined Scrum/Agile process — sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives that actually change behavior
Partner with Product to keep the backlog groomed, well-estimated, and prioritized at least one to two sprints ahead
Drive accurate estimation and sprint commitment; track velocity, throughput, and cycle time to make delivery predictable rather than optimistic
Enforce clear definitions of ready and done, including test coverage, code review, and documentation standards
Run blameless retrospectives and close the loop on action items sprint over sprint
Adapt ceremonies to a distributed, night-shift team — async-first updates, tight written communication, and minimal meeting overhead
Coach engineers on breaking work into small, independently shippable increments

Technical Guidance

Provide technical leadership across the team's modern web stack and cloud infrastructure
Review designs, architecture proposals, and critical code paths
Support scalable, secure, and maintainable system design within your team's domain
Improve engineering practices around CI/CD, code review, observability, testing, and incident response
Use delivery metrics such as DORA (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore) to identify bottlenecks and guide improvement

AI-Enabled Engineering

Champion AI adoption across the SDLC — planning, code generation, review, testing, documentation, and incident response
Set standards for responsible AI-assisted development: what gets reviewed, how quality bars hold, and where human judgment is non-negotiable
Evaluate and roll out AI tooling (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, agentic workflows, MCP-based integrations) and measure real impact on velocity and quality
Coach engineers to shift from writing every line to specifying, reviewing, and validating AI-generated work
Stay current as tooling evolves rapidly and bring practical ideas back to the team

People Management

Manage, coach, and develop software engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, and growth plans
Support performance management, hiring, onboarding, and retention
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, code quality, and continuous learning
Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with U.S.-based stakeholders during overlap hours
Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams to keep delivery aligned with company goals
Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and delivery status clearly to technical and non-technical partners

What We're Looking For

Experience

6+ years in software engineering
2–4+ years leading teams as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or equivalent
Experience delivering production software in a SaaS, web platform, or product-led environment
Experience working with distributed or remote teams
Demonstrated track record implementing or maturing Scrum/Agile practice on a team that previously lacked it

Technical Background

Required

Strong full-stack engineering background in the JavaScript / TypeScript ecosystem
Hands-on experience with Node.js and React / Next.js, and with designing and consuming APIs
Experience running production workloads on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery workflows
Strong understanding of maintainable architecture, delivery tradeoffs, and engineering quality

Nice to Have

Nest.js
MongoDB and/or MySQL at production scale
Docker and containerized deployment
Broader DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices

Leadership Traits

Strong communicator and coach
Comfortable balancing speed, quality, and business priorities
Able to go deep technically without becoming a bottleneck
Calm under ambiguity and effective in a fast-moving environment
Genuinely passionate about AI — actively experimenting, and opinionated about where it helps and where it doesn't

Why Join

Build technology that impacts real lives
Work with a mission-driven global team
Stay close to product and code while growing as a leader
Help shape how Career Team scales its engineering organization
Work somewhere AI is genuinely embraced — you will have the mandate and the tooling to modernize how software gets built here

Compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, and overall fit for the role.

About Career Team:
Founded in 1996, Career Team is socially conscious organization that seeks to close the nation’s opportunity divide through government-funded workforce development programs designed to help individuals get the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to obtain quality employment. In addition to administering these programs, Career Team develops and leverages cutting-edge software tools to ignite transformative change within the workforce development industry. Career Team is revolutionizing the operational landscape for workforce development professionals through its Career Edge platform, which includes state-of-the-art job training tools and advanced case management systems. For more information see www.careeredge.com and www.careerteam.com.

Career Team’s outstanding record has resulted in numerous honors, including:

Named by Inc. Magazine as one of America's 500 fastest growing privately held companies
Recipient of the US Chamber of Commerce Blue Chip Enterprise Award for innovation
Featured by 60 Minutes, CNN, Money Magazine, Inc. Magazine and the British Broadcasting Network as an innovative, government funded solutions program
Invited to the White House after being cited by the National Welfare-to-Work Partnership and National Alliance of Business as a top 10 US training provider

Career Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Background Check Requirements. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check (including criminal, prior employment and education verification). Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current employees who apply for the position.

About the Company

Career TEAM

Workforce development consulting with government software

Career TEAM, LLC provides workforce development services to government and education institutions. It combines high-touch, one-on-one case management and career services with a proprietary software portal called Career EDGE to manage employment and training programs. The Career EDGE platform supports program administration, participant tracking, and service delivery, enabling staff to coordinate services and monitor outcomes for participants. The company differentiates itself by offering an integrated mix of hands-on support and software tailored to public sector and educational clients, backed by a track record of securing government and state grants (over $100 million) and collaborating with partners like ForgeNow to strengthen vocational training. Career TEAM’s goal is to reduce unemployment and poverty by closing the opportunity divide and delivering better employment outcomes through targeted workforce development solutions.

Company size: Not listed
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: North Haven, CT
Founded: 1996

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