OpenGov is home to an exceptional team - passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. By bringing the OpenGov Cloud to our nation's state and local government, we’re transforming communities so they can thrive!
Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life!
Job Summary:
Are you ready to play a pivotal role in revolutionizing local and state government through cutting-edge technology? OpenGov seeks an experienced Manager, Engineering to lead our innovative team. This role is perfect for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-tenant SaaS environment and is passionate about leveraging React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS to build world-class solutions.
Our Financials team designs and implements robust, cloud-native applications that streamline Financials workflows and enhance the user experience for our local and state governments. Your leadership will not only guide the technical direction of a talented team of engineers but also shape the strategic vision of our Financials Suite. If you are excited about transforming ideas into scalable multi-tenant cloud solutions and inspiring a team of engineers to achieve technical excellence and continuous growth, we want you on our team.
At OpenGov, we are driven by our mission to power a more effective and accountable government. We offer a collaborative, diverse, and supportive environment where your contributions have a direct impact. With opportunities for professional growth, continuous learning, and flexible work arrangements, you will be part of a team committed to innovation and excellence.
Responsibilities:
Leadership and Management:
• Lead, inspire, and manage a team of highly skilled engineers focused on developing multi-tenant SaaS solutions.
• Encourage a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and career development opportunities for your team members, fostering a high-performing and motivated engineering culture.
Technical Expertise:
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of multi-tenant cloud-native solutions with a primary focus on AWS
• Ensure adherence to best coding, architecture, and secure application development practices, maintaining high code quality, performance, and reliability standards.
• Collaborate with engineers to break complex projects into manageable components, facilitating iterative development and continuous delivery.
Collaboration and Communication:
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and architects to ensure alignment between technical capabilities and business goals.
• Maintain clear and transparent communication channels within and across teams, providing updates on project status, system architecture, and timeline expectations.
• Coordinate with distributed teams to ensure seamless feature delivery in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
Operational Excellence:
• Define and uphold Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and reliability metrics for the services owned by your team.
• Implement and optimize processes for continuous improvement and operational resilience.
• Transform reactive processes into proactive, reliable systems and tools that enhance operational efficiency.
Requirements and Preferred Experience:
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in technical leadership and people management.
- At least 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with one or more modern languages such as Java, .NET, JavaScript, or NodeJS
- Demonstrated success in leading and building robust and practical software engineering teams.
- Proficiency in React and modern JavaScript frameworks.
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture.
- Solid understanding of API design and multi-tenant architecture.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building and supporting heavily utilized at-scale consumer-facing enterprise SaaS software.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and guide your team toward successful project delivery.
- Proven track record of coaching and developing engineers, fostering an environment conducive to learning and professional growth.
- Background in managing rapid-growth environments and remote teams.
What makes OpenGov unique
» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click
here for read more.
» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.
» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.
Come join us and make a positive social impact!
OpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
