As a Senior Software Engineering Manager within the Constellation Operations group in Spire, you will be responsible for establishing the long‑term vision and planning for software projects with horizons of a year or more. You will lead the Scheduling Team, working closely with the Tech Lead to ensure delivery and operational excellence of the products your team owns. You will be the voice of your products, engaging in frequent stakeholder meetings, and you will mentor junior engineers and work with senior engineers to develop their skills and career progression. You should have a strong technical and mathematical background to lead your team, and you may step in as an IC when needed.

What You’ll Do

• You will be involved in roadmap planning and prioritization and responsible for its delivery.
• You will find a good balance between mission delivery commitments, product and tech improvements in the work your team does.
• You will drive the development and execution of the roadmap across application development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• You will interface with other ICs, engineering managers, technical program managers, system engineers and others.
• You’ll work alongside your team and tech lead to develop elegant technical solutions to customer needs.
• You will make sure the technical vision of the team is aligned with business priorities and implemented on time and to a high standard, including supporting the ideation, creation, and curation of technical proposals that are core to Spire’s culture.
• You will interface with the satellite operations, ground stations, communications, and satellite design teams to translate user needs into system requirements and have the experience to run the resultant projects independently.
• You’ll be responsible for making sure that the people on your team experience personal growth and amazing achievements.

Key Skills

• Computer science or Mathematics degree or equivalent work experience, and experience working as a software engineer.
• Intrinsic interest in developing people and helping them deliver at their full potential.
• Ability to analyse data by yourself, using Python, SQL and other languages in order to measure the progress and success of the work your team delivers.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and driving end‑to‑end technical solutions spanning new product development and legacy modernization.
• Experience leading one or multiple software teams.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Alignment with our core values: global, reliable, unbounded, faster, relentless, collaborative.
• Desire to operate autonomously.
• Desire to achieve mastery in your domain.
• Comfortable with iterating and re‑evaluating projects and plans as needs evolve.
• Experience delivering projects on time and of quality, using agile principles.

Work Arrangement

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three business days per week in the office. Access to US export‑controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role; if needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

To help maintain a safe and secure workplace for Spire employees, all candidates who receive a conditional offer will be required to complete a background check. This may include criminal history and employment verification.