Software Engineering Manager
What Relativity Has to Offer:
Work Location Eligibility
This position is open to candidates based in the following locations:
Job details
Posting Type
Remote
Job Overview
Here at Relativity, we prioritize flexibility and work-life harmony. Our Hybrid work environment provides options tailored to your role and location, aiming to enhance engagement, connectivity, and productivity.Join us to experience a culture of collaboration and innovation, where connecting in-person adds value to our collective growth. Let's work together!
About the Team
Matter Administration is focused on helping our customers grow the eDiscovery practices and businesses that they are running on top of Relativity, delivering solutions to boost productivity of an Administrator, simplify configuration and improve preparation of the system for matter review. From Matter setup and user workspace arrangement, data archiving and restore to cost management and billing solution, Matter Admin delivers tools and services for Relativity Administrators.
About the Role
The Manager, Software Engineering is first and foremost a delivery leader — driving execution, project management, and cross-functional alignment as part of a Triad with a Product Manager and Product Designer. They build and lead a highly effective, autonomous team of software engineers to meet the demands of our customers and the objectives of product development. While people development is an important part of the role, the primary focus is on ensuring the team consistently ships high-quality work on time.
Job Description and Requirements
Your Role in Action :
Drive Delivery & Execution
Own project and roadmap execution end-to-end, including managing internal and external dependencies
Drive delivery cadence — ensure the team maintains predictable, sustainable throughput
Scope and drive features and products, delivering updates on progress and risks
Communicate timelines, trade-offs, and status to domain and Engineering leadership
Handle unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of intangibles and providing direction on actions to be taken
Align with Your Triad & Stakeholders
Operate as a key partner in the Triad — align with Product Manager and Product Designer on priorities, scope, and sequencing
Contribute to the product roadmap and use it to bring purpose to the team and their backlog
Bring visibility through regular reporting and sharing team wins, goals, and roadblocks in cross-team forums
Build productive relationships with cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Product, Security, Service Delivery, and commercial organizations
Clarify ownership and decision-making within and across teams
Drive Problem Resolution & Customer Support
Empower the team to resolve customer issues; coordinate coverage and oversee resolution to completion
Resolve team- and domain-level impediments; escalate cross-domain impediments effectively
Run retrospectives and RCAs to identify opportunities to prevent future incidents; prioritize improvements with your Triad
Foster Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Encourage innovative ideas from direct reports to contribute to team roadmap, sprints, and day-to-day objectives
Influence senior leaders on engineering strategy for your team
Identify and act to improve processes within the team
Work with adjacent teams to solve problems; escalate problems that have wider scope
Ensure current policies, practices, trends, technology, and competitive information affecting the business are understood and taken into consideration
Guide the team to design and implement solutions, ensuring quality through best practices and analysis of incidents and failures
Grow & Manage Your Team
Promote a learning culture — ensure team members are aware of learning resources and encourage participation in training programs
Help engineers at various levels identify and grow into their next career step; identify and cultivate future leaders
Provide feedback, help team members set short-term goals, and coach them on development plans
Staff the team effectively, fill gaps on projects, and manage low performance in a timely fashion
Champion diverse hiring to foster diverse thought and innovative practices
Your Skills:
4+ years of experience managing software product development teams
Strong background in software development of commercial-grade systems and applications
Experience managing remote teams or individual staff in remote locations
Solid understanding of software engineering discipline, including modern development practices, distributed systems, and cloud environments (SaaS)
Experience with cloud-native technologies and architectures (containers, Kubernetes, serverless, microservices, CI/CD pipelines)
Teamwork and skills for cross-group collaboration
Ability to manage team pace — instilling urgency while protecting from burnout
Motivate your people to achieve results
In-depth knowledge of agile product development methodologies
Strong verbal, presentation, and written communications skills for all audiences
Experience leveraging AI/ML technologies to enhance product capabilities, developer productivity, or engineering workflows
Relativity is a diverse workplace with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify.
Benefit Highlights:
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
Flexible work arrangements
Long-term incentive program
Training investment program
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values:
288 000 and 432 000PLNThe final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Required Skills:
Budget Management, Engineering Management, Innovation, Leadership, Performance Management (PM), Process Improvements, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Management, Stakeholder Management