Manager, Engineering
Austin, TX
Corporate – Dealerware /
Full-time /
Hybrid
About Dealerware:
Dealerware transforms the automotive retailers of today into the mobility network of tomorrow. Launched in 2016, Dealerware manages tens of thousands of vehicles at dealerships in North America across every major manufacturer brand. Dealerware is committed to being a people-first culture and a great place to work for all, with a remote-first work policy, flexible scheduling, unlimited PTO, extensive benefits, a core value of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and a leadership and management team that defaults to being supportive and accessible. Dealerware was recognized by Built In as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Austin, TX in 2024 for the third consecutive year.
As a Manager, Engineering you will:
- Establish and advocate the adoption of engineering best practices, leading by example
- Assess new technologies and provide recommendations towards a service-oriented software architecture, developing solutions that can serve multiple product lines
- Coach, mentor and lead our software engineering team members on engineering standards and best practices
- Work with product leaders, breaking down business requirements into technical requirements with the team
- Develop resource and capacity plans for your team and leverage metrics to assume and monitor your team's performance.
- Manage a web and mobile application team, while helping to drive quality across our SDLC
- Further career goals of team members
- Lead development of mid and long-term technical roadmaps, including detailed migration strategies to evolve our applications
- Inspire and excite people internally around the long-term technical vision
- Contribute to solving the company’s toughest technical challenges
- Collaborate with other teams in order to provide creative solutions to challenging problems
- Maintain expertise in current and emerging technologies and tools
- Represent Dealerware's technology within Audi, and larger VW group
Your peers would say you:
- Create simple, thoughtful solutions when presented with challenging requirements
- Are passionate about scalability and high performance
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of your applications, including security, deployment and monitoring tools and techniques
- Possess excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders to understand and explain highly technical information in a clear, concise manner
- Great at collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Consistently deliver improvements to product and processes
- Have a strong “team first” mentality
Required qualifications:
- Experience building microservice or SOA architectures within AWS
- Strong understanding of object-oriented analysis and design; domain-driven design
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
- Experience leading teams across different disciplines
- Knowledge of Flutter and GraphQL
- Hands on experience in React or Ruby on Rails, SQL, MySQL, and Postgress
- Knowledge of industry-standard ETL and workflow tools
- Experience working with data lakes and relevant architectures
- Possess excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and be comfortable working with multiple stakeholders to understand and explain highly technical information in a clearly/concisely
Dealerware offers you:
- Competitive base salary with bonus incentive eligibility
- Full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401K) + FREE telehealth (includes therapy visits)
- Training for all employees provided in Udemy
- Tuition Reimbursement and continuing education
- Unlimited paid vacation policy
- Generous Paid Parental Leave program
- Flexible work
- Modern office and a dynamic team in downtown Austin with free parking
- Friendly, small company environment with a progressive culture
- Backed by Audi, a 114-year-old automotive industry leader
- Discounts on Audi vehicle purchases, and discounted leases through the Vehicle Lease Program
Dealerware is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. Dealerware's management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.
*We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
