Software Engineering Manager - Frontend

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks. Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector. As the Engineering Manager for Frontend Engineering at Motive, you will lead a dynamic team of highly skilled developers to strategize and execute frontend projects for our customer-facing web applications. Collaborating closely with the product team, you'll play a pivotal role in defining and achieving product feature Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Your expertise in project planning, management, and leadership will significantly impact the team's success, influencing Motive's overall engineering culture and reputation. What You’ll Do:

• Leadership: Manage a team of 5-10 individual contributors, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with Product, Backend, and Design teams to define product OKRs. Drive project planning, sequencing, development resourcing, and execution.
• Team Growth: Own the hiring plan to meet growth OKRs, ensuring the team's skill set aligns with Motive's evolving needs.
• Agile Execution: Conduct weekly scrums, daily standups, and employ Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) to oversee team progress.
• Code Quality: Enforce strict development quality guidelines to maintain a clean, modular, and efficient codebase. Ensure code is easily maintainable and extensible.
• Mentorship: Mentor engineers, assisting them in planning and executing their career paths.
• Code Review Pipeline: Maintain a healthy code review pipeline, ensuring timely processing of open pull requests.
• Tech Debt Management: Efficiently manage technical debt, particularly related to reliability and performance for scalability. Direct the team's focus on solving customer pain points.
• Technology Trends: Stay current with the latest trends and software versions, keeping the tech stack up to date.
• Performance Reviews: Oversee employee performance review cycles.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience: Solid engineering background with at least 5+ years of software development, including 3+ years in frontend development.
• Management Experience: 3+ years managing a team of 5-10 individual contributors.
• Technical Proficiency: In-depth development experience in a lead role using recent web development frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.
• Project Management: Delivered 2-3 large-scale software projects as a project or engineering manager.
• Agile Expertise: Well-versed and experienced in running projects using Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• Collaboration Skills: Experience working with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, Backend and QA.

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