Sr. Manager, Engineering

WHO WE ARE:  

Splice is a creative platform for people who make music. Serious producers choose Splice Sounds to bring their ideas to life. A subscription to Splice inspires and accelerates creative success for digital music creators with an industry-leading catalog of sounds and samples and an expanding AI stack. With a rent-to-own marketplace of DAWs and plugins, the Splice experience seamlessly integrates into any music production workflow, regardless of DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). Via Splice, an unparalleled team of sound designers and sample creators are fueling the success of a growing global community of chart-topping producers, students, and DIY creators.

HOW WE WORK:  

At Splice, DISCO is a rallying cry for collaboration, accountability, and unity within our organization; Direct, Inclusive, Splice Together, Creator Centric, and Optimistic. Our shared success depends on our ability to support one another, work well together, and communicate directly. By embracing flexibility and a unified approach, we can navigate anything that’s thrown at us.

Splice embraces a culture of remote work. You’ll see your colleagues showing up from across the US and the UK. In order to keep us working well as a team, we have regular communication, including Town Halls, departmental all-hands and get-togethers.

When you join Splice, you join a network of colleagues, peers, and collaborators. Are you ready?

JOB TITLE: Senior Engineering Manager
LOCATION: US Remote 

THE ROLE: As Senior Engineering Manager in Engineering, you will report directly to the Senior Director of Engineering and be a key leader in the Engineering organization. This is a critical role in a fast-paced and supportive environment where you can make a high-impact contribution to our core engineering capabilities. You'll guide and grow a distributed by design team of engineers, enhancing and scaling our core services to deliver a high-availability experience. You will be accountable for Core Engineering - Foundational Services which includes core APIs, AuthN/Z, and payments processing. The person in this role will demonstrate an exceptional mix of people, project, and technical management skills.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead, coach, and grow the engineering team responsible for core platform services.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive a culture of empowered teams, fostering ownership, collaboration, and initiative across the organization.
• Define clear outcomes for the team and lead them in achieving those goals.
• Establish and maintain efficient processes to facilitate the team's productivity.
• Stay current on the latest technologies, preferred practices, and industry trends in software development.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to early-career managers and engineers to support their technical and professional growth.
• Collaborate with senior and staff engineers to shape technical strategy and secure buy-in across the organization.
• Foster a culture of innovation, feedback, and continual learning.
• Champion and advocate for high availability services, code quality, and scalability to ensure high standards across projects.
• Show curiosity about our customer outcomes and our business, identifying higher-level insights and opportunities across departments to elevate Splice to the next level of performance and growth.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven expertise in technical leadership within a cross-functional and distributed team environment.
• Outstanding communication, organizational skills, and a user-centric mindset.
• Experience implementing agile methodologies, particularly Kanban and/or Lean.
• Technical competency in API design, go, Java/TypeScript, GraphQL, OAuth, database design and query optimization, and performance.
• Experience leading teams building platform-level capabilities to enable SaaS applications.
• Proficient in strategy planning and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated expertise in guiding senior engineers and identifying growth avenues for their continuing development.
• Proven track record of mentoring and coaching early-career engineers in both personal development and business impact.

The national pay range for this role is $180,000 - $250,000. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience.

Splice is an Equal Opportunity Employer 
Splice provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.