Software Engineering Manager

at  Sofar Ocean

THE COMPANY

Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.

We are looking for a product-driven Software Engineering Manager to join our team as we scale our Wayfinder software product to transform the maritime transport industry towards a more sustainable future. Today, Wayfinder provides real time routing guidance to the largest shipping vessels in the world, providing critical decision making context for sea captains as they navigate the world’s oceans.
Building a great product will require you to have a deep understanding of our customers, their workflows, and the data they work with every day. You will collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers, ocean scientists and product designers to translate these user needs into high quality software that empowers our users with data to get their work done more efficiently.
This role calls for a capable people manager who will be responsible for recruiting, hiring, and retaining a team of passionate IC engineers. The right candidate is able to evaluate the performance of engineers with various levels of experience, provide coaching and mentorship to help individuals level up their skills, have difficult conversations when team members are not meeting expectations, and work cross-functionally in a fast-moving startup environment.