About the Software team in the Philippines
Software is becoming an ever-bigger part of our products at Dyson. Connectivity, advanced User Interfaces, and Artificial Intelligence are part of the solutions for most of our products. We are looking to onboard a passionate and talented Senior Software Manager to join us at our campus here in the Philippines. The Senior Software Manager will lead and mentor a team of embedded software engineers, overseeing design, development, and delivery of high-performance solutions. You’ll work cross-functionally with hardware, product, and test teams to ensure embedded software teams’ deliveries are industry-leading.
Reporting To
Head of Hardware & Software - Philippines
About the Role
- Ownership - Line manage a team of engineering managers, tech leads and developers to deliver embedded software for Dyson’s beauty products
- Delivery - Drive software delivery ensuring we achieve our four Ons: On time, on quality, on spec, on cost.
- Collaboration - Build strong relationships with global software leadership and wider product and engineering teams.
- Communication - Represent the embedded software team with clear communications between key stakeholders and leadership team members
- Escalation – Key point out to issues that need attention, bring in Philippines topics to the engineering leadership team which you are part of.
- Leadership - Motivate teams by removing blockers, tackling critical issues, and finding all the ways to avoid delays. Build team spirit and encourage growth.
- Technical – Step in, where needed, to guide development, design and ensure adoption of best development practices (e.g. CI/CD, unit testing etc.)
- Talent - Grow the team by identifying gaps, retaining, hiring, and onboarding top talent
- Continuous Improvement – Foster within the team, efforts to continuously improve processes, toolchains and ways of working to ensure quality and efficiency.
About you
- 3+ years’ experience line management and/or technical leadership of embedded software teams delivering production quality solutions
- 10+ years’ experience in software development (embedded) using C/C++ with experience in both bare metal and RTOS development environments
- Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices such as version control, TDD and CI/CD
- Solid experience managing team deliverables within an Agile framework using industry standard tools (e.g. Jira)
- Excellent leadership and cross-functional influencing skills. Ability to mentor teams, uplift competencies, and build a high-performance engineering culture.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex technical information clearly to executives and non-technical leaders.
- Strong ability to multi-task across multiple product deliverables and manage multiple schedules simultaneously.
- You have a degree in relevant engineering or science discipline or equivalent
- You must be fluent in English
Bonus:
- Expertise in IoT, motor control and sensor control software is highly desirable
- Knowledge of build systems and software configuration tools are a plus
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