Manager, UI Engineering

Title: Software Engineering Manager, UI- IIQ 

Location: India 

*This is based in Pune, India* 

About SailPoint:  

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job – no more, no less. 

About you and the role:  

SailPoint is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a front-end team for the Identity Product.  This Engineering team has the responsibility and technical expertise to drive the feature development amongst the broader Identity Product Engineering team to help ensure that our customers are provided timely and high-quality releases for Identity Product.   

This responsibility includes oversight a team of UI Engineers and QA Engineers. You will work with Product Managers to ensure business requirements are understood, estimated, developed, tested, and released to our customers. 

To lead this team, we are looking to bring on an experienced and motivational manager who will be responsible for leading all aspects of Identity Product which relate to how our customers utilize the product to solve their complex identity and access management challenges in unique ways.  A background in Agile software development environment is preferred. 

This is a high-visibility leadership role with deep organization exposure, influence and ownership of mission-critical systems. 

In turn, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow as a manager and leader of people. You will receive thoughtful coaching, consistent feedback, collaboration on your career path, and support to learn and pursue success for your own career. You will gain experience through shipping great software, and leading teams through a complex environment to support customers and other teams throughout the organization.  

 What You’ll Make Happen:   

• Listen to what your team needs to deliver better UI software, then proactively do those things.  

• Partner with Product Management to ensure your teams have clear tactical and strategic backlogs.  

• Balance competing priorities to ensure we effectively ship new features while resolving defects and managing technical debt.  

• Introduce, run, tweak, and optimize team project management processes, as the principal owner of your team’s delivery.  

• Recruit, coach, develop, and motivate high performing front-end developers.  

• Proactively seek to listen and find alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by understanding your teams’ technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions that solve multiple strategic challenges at once.  

You Get Excited By:   

• Your team achieving real business results and incremental milestones  

• Delighting our customers and end users  

• Coaching and developing engineers on your team along their chosen career paths  

• Using data to objectively measure impact and optimize both your team’s software and processes  

• Meeting deadlines and coordinating with technical team members in order to deliver quality results  

• Attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software  

 Role Requirements:  

• 2+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on front-end web applications  

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer  

• Deep knowledge of and experience with agile processes and workflows  

• Technical experience and fluency in front-end architecture, enabling easy discussions with engineers  

• Experience handling multiple stakeholders’ concerns live, in meetings, with aplomb  

• Excellent communication skills  

UI tech stack: 

• Frameworks/Languages: Angular (13+) or React, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML , NodeJS 

• Testing Frameworks: Cypress, Jest, Selenium 

• CI/CD: Cloudbees, Jenkins, AWS 

Pluses (or Things You’ll Learn on the Job):  

• Experience tuning and optimizing team processes using qualitative & quantitative feedback  

• Experience implementing & maintaining a feedback-driven culture where it is routine to ask for feedback on performance  

• Experience on teams shipping SaaS products for consumers or businesses 

• Experience working with a global team  

What success looks like in the role
Within the first 30 days you will:

• Meet team, understand team mission and vision

• Clarity on various roles and expectation

• Development setup

• Systems, tools access

• Read guides, documentation, mandatory trainings

• Learn company processes, benefits

60 days:

• Focus on more role specific tasks towards taking gradual responsibility and improving collaboration between existing team members

• Understand team goals and OKR’s for the quarter and beyond

• Understand key dependencies, stakeholders

• Get comfortable with tools, systems and processes on a day-to-day basis

90 days:

• Focus on more role specific tasks towards taking gradual responsibility and improving collaboration between existing team members

• Understand team goals and OKR’s for the quarter and beyond

• Understand key dependencies, stakeholders

• Get comfortable with tools, systems and processes on a day-to-day basis

About SailPoint India and our Benefits-  

Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, where cutting-edge solutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever-evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact and Individuals. 
 
Our Pune team works under a hybrid model enjoying the office 2-3 days a week. We provide excellent office amenities, competitive salaries and strong benefits: 

• Our benefits program offers medical insurance for employees and their dependents, accident insurance and term life insurance for all employees. All premiums are paid by SailPoint. 

• Company sponsored health-checkups for employees and discounted rates for dependents 

• Annual performance bonus 

• Private equity at certain levels 

• 24 Leaves every year in addition, 10 holidays 

• Flexible Work hours