Software Engineering Manager - SORA

Sora, an ADP company, is hiring a Software Engineering Manager. 

• Are you inspired by transformation and making an impact on the lives of millions of people every day, even when it's messy?  

• Are you empathic to client needs, the people you lead, and internal partners to drive success but can make the hard calls and are not afraid to make bold moves?  

• Are you a technologist first and foremost who approaches every problem wearing that hat while going out of your way to champion creativity and build diverse, productive, and engaged teams?  

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what's next?  

Sora, an HR Workflow automation product, is empowering people-focused teams to create exceptional employee experiences. These teams should be spending time with people, but unfortunately all facets of People teams are bogged down by managing processes instead of helping people. That’s where Sora comes in: we’re building a product that streamlines the tedious and repetitive work People teams do every day, from sending emails to assigning onboarding tasks to a new hire’s manager.  

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a/multiple team(s) of 5-10 software engineers and testers who are building not only the future of Sora, but the future of ADP’s HR product suite. No two days are alike. You will be a hands-on, working manager, responsible for your own deliverables (including technical design and coding tickets), as well as managing your direct reports. You will spend your time checking in with your team, facilitating the team's work through coaching and guidance, being a guiding voice for technical decisions on the team, and providing leadership with realistic expectations and deadlines. You'll be accountable for something significant: the uncompromising quality of products that impact people's lives.  

To thrive in this role, you'll need a solid understanding of software development at scale, including recent hands-on coding experience in our stack (NodeJS, React, AWS), a strong knowledge of functional programming, JavaScript, cloud services, relational databases, Redis, and microservice architectures. Your ability to communicate clearly and effectively will keep the team informed of company-wide initiatives and leaders comfortable with the team's progress. Team collaboration and exchange of ideas are central to projects here. You will be a role model for motivating yourself and the team to maintain positive momentum and energy. Pace does not scare you. You're the team leader who helps everyone understand the big picture and deliver.  

Communication and transparency are key! You and your team of engineers will work closely with multiple product and development teams in the US, across most US time zones. This involves frequent communication, virtual meetings, and strong asynchronous collaboration. This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, easy to work with, and adaptable to a fast-paced environment. If you enjoy collaboration and staying organized, this could be a great fit! 

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Learn more about ADP at tech.adp.com/careers  

WHAT YOU'LL DO:  

Here's what you can expect on a typical day:   

1. Drive cultural change and transformation. Lead, inspire and engage a team as you continue to transform, develop, design, and deliver our next-generation platform to clients.   

1. Build teams that thrive. As an experienced leader, you want everyone to shine. You'll start each day by checking in with your engineering team and the US-based teams to identify priorities and challenges. You'll find a way to make the team's day go smoother. You are constantly looking for ways to share your knowledge, motivate others and keep everyone engaged and productive.  

• Build Products. You will use your technical expertise to review your team's proposed approaches and help your people excel in an Agile environment. You're proactive and hands-on as a manager/coach. When you see a potential issue, you never leave things hanging and unfinished. When your team delivers a finished product, it's as polished as the team could make it.  

• Variety of work. There is no typical day. You could be checking in with a local direct report one minute, a US-based peer or team member the next minute, meeting with leadership to review initiatives for the coming quarter later and tomorrow, handling a few ad hoc requests from your peers in other departments. The approximate expected work breakdown is 25% coding, 50% technical design/architecture, and 25% people management. 

• Influence and inspire confidence. You are comfortable presenting to senior leaders, product owners, and peers with a compelling voice that you demonstrate through executive presence, leading change, and creating clear executive-level communications on milestone achievements.   

• Management Experience. You have 2+ years/5-10+ years of engineering management experience with relevant skills gained and developed in the same or similar role. You will have developed software systems at scale as an individual contributor in previous role(s).  

• Development Experience. You have recent (within the last 2 years) hands-on development experience as a senior engineer (5-8+ years total development experience). You are well-versed in our technical stack (NodeJS, React, AWS) and ready to hit the ground running as a working manager, contributing your own work to each sprint. 

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:  

• You'll have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent.   

• 2+ years of recent management or team lead experience 

• Recent (within last 2 years) professional experience in relevant skills (in the tech stack below) gained and developed in the same or similar role (5-8+ years total development experience). 

• NodeJS 

• React (or similar modern front-end framework) 

• Postgres 

• AWS (EC2, SQS, SES) or similar cloud experience 

NOTE: Experience in all of these areas is not strictly required. However, we expect this role to have significant experience in a majority of the stack and to onboard quickly, ramping up to Lead level proficiency on our technologies and tools within a few months. 

• Significant experience writing technical plans/proposals, completing Proofs of Concept, making and defending recommendations on technical direction/strategy, and leading technical projects of 1-4 engineers.  

• Demonstrated success as a cross-functional collaborator and problem solver, working closely with multiple teams throughout an organization.  

• 3-5 years experience as a technical leader and mentor to new or more junior developers.  

• (Preferred) Experience scaling distributed systems, database architecture, observability, security/vulnerability reduction, message queuing. 

• Prior experience managing multiple teams with competing priorities. 

*O modelo de trabalho adotado pela ADP é office based/presencial, com a possibilidade de trabalho em home-office por até duas vezes na semana.

*Considerando que as atividades desempenhadas pelos ocupantes deste cargo envolvem acesso a informações altamente confidenciais e sensíveis de clientes da ADP e de seus respectivos empregados, a ADP reserva-se o direito de conduzir checagem de histórico, de tempos em tempos, conforme autoriza o Incidente de Recurso de Revista Repetitivo nº 01 do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho, mediante consentimento do candidato/trabalhador.