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Wing · 4 days ago

Staff Software Engineering Manager, UTM

Palo Alto, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$162K/yr - $278K/yr

12+ years exp

Wing is a company that offers drone delivery solutions for last mile logistics. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineering Manager to lead their Uncrewed Air Traffic Management (UTM) Engineering team, focusing on building products for safe and compliant drone operations while managing a small engineering team.

DeliveryDelivery ServiceDronesMachinery Manufacturing

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Manage a small engineering team, coaching individuals with an eye on industry best practices

Build a team culture of support, engagement and quality, ensuring Wing can scale as a business

Collaborate cross functionally with product managers, and program managers to design, implement and launch new features

Design and build solutions that utilize asynchronous pipelines, database systems, RPC handlers in collaboration with frontend engineers and other backend engineers, in a privacy and security conscious ecosystem

Mitigate, root cause and resolve urgent, time sensitive issues, in both familiar and unfamiliar code, as part of an oncall rotation, or other escalations

Qualification

Backend software developmentDatabase schema designTeam managementC++ programmingCross-functional collaborationCommunicationProblem-solving

Required

12+ years of experience designing and developing backend software

5+ years of senior team lead or management experience

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a similar degree (or equivalent experience)

Excellent written and verbal skills and experience working in a collaborative team

Ability to identify challenging problems and potential solutions with limited guidance, launch and successfully land the solution without any complications

Experience developing backend systems involving database schema design, and synchronous/asynchronous systems

Experience developing in C++, or ability to quickly pick up C++ with experience in similar languages like Java, or C#

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Wing

Wing provides aircrafts that are custom-designed to deliver packages safely, reliably, and efficiently.

Founded in 2018

Palo Alto, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.wing.com/

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