{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a37a77a56bf2b23b2c9b26c1","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a37a77a56bf2b23b2c9b26c1","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a37a77a56bf2b23b2c9b26c1","title":"Senior Software Engineering Manager","description":"As a Senior Software Engineering Manager within the Constellation Operations group in Spire, you will be responsible for working with other leaders in the organization to establish the long-term vision and planning for software projects with time horizons of a year or more.\n\nYou will be the Team Lead of our File Transfer Team, working closely with your Tech Lead to ensure overall delivery and operational excellency of the products your team owns. You are going to be the voice of your products, engaging in frequent stakeholder meetings. You also have personnel responsibilities for career development and growth for your team, mentoring junior engineers and working with senior engineers to develop their skills and career progression. You are keen to step in as an IC when needed and take ownership in driving operational excellency forwards. Your team manages some of Spire's most critical ground stack software, responsible for the transfer of mission critical files, therefore, you should have a strong software engineering background to lead your team.\nWhat You'll Do:\nYou will be involved in roadmap planning and prioritization and responsible for its delivery\nYou are going to find a good balance between mission delivery commitments, product and tech improvements in the work that your team does\nYou will drive the development and execution of the roadmap across application development, testing, deployment, and operations.\nYou will interface with other ICs, engineering managers, technical program managers, system engineers and others.\nYou'll work alongside your team and tech lead to develop elegant technical solutions to customer needs, together with your team of developers distributed between the US and Europe.\nYou will make sure the technical vision of the team is aligned with business priorities and implemented on time and to a high standard. This includes supporting the bottom-up ideation, creation, and curation of technical proposals that is core to Spire's culture.\nLastly, but most importantly,\nYou 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\nYou'll be responsible for making sure that the people on your team experience personal growth and amazing achievements.\nDrive the development and execution of the roadmap across application development, testing, deployment, and operations.\nKey Skills:\nComputer science degree or equivalent and recent experience working as a software engineer.\nIntrinsic interest in developing people and helping them deliver at their full potential.\nAbility to analyze data by yourself, using Python, SQL and other languages in order to measure the progress and success of the work your team delivers.\nDemonstrated expertise in designing and driving end-to-end technical solutions spanning new product development and legacy modernization.\nExperience leading one or multiple software teams.\nExcellent communications skills.\nAlignment with our core values: global, reliable, unbounded, faster, relentless, collaborative.\nDesire to operate autonomously.\nDesire to achieve mastery in your domain.\nComfortable with iterating and re-evaluating projects and plans as needs evolve.\nExperience delivering projects on time and of quality, using agile principles.\nSpire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three business days per week in the office.\nAccess 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. #LI-MK1\n\nGlobal Perks\n️ Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)\nLaunch Attendance\nGenerous Time Off Policy\nEducation Assistance Program\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nEmployee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)\nFamily Leave\nFitness Reimbursement\nEmployee Referral Program\nHealthy snacks & beverages in every office\n\nAbout Spire\nWe improve life on Earth with data from space.\nSpire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire's data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.\n\nSpire is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. 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.\nTo 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.\nPlease take a moment to review Spire's Global Data Privacy Notice for Employees, Contractors, Candidates and Visitors, as well as Spire's Privacy Policy.\n\nKindly be advised that communication regarding your application may come from @spire.com, @recruiting.spire.com, or from Candidate.fyi (our scheduling tool).","company":"Spire","rawCompany":"spire","city":"Boulder","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-14T10:21:18.145Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineering Manager","description":"As a Senior Software Engineering Manager within the Constellation Operations group in Spire, you will be responsible for working with other leaders in the organization to establish the long-term vision and planning for software projects with time horizons of a year or more.\n\nYou will be the Team Lead of our File Transfer Team, working closely with your Tech Lead to ensure overall delivery and operational excellency of the products your team owns. You are going to be the voice of your products, engaging in frequent stakeholder meetings. You also have personnel responsibilities for career development and growth for your team, mentoring junior engineers and working with senior engineers to develop their skills and career progression. You are keen to step in as an IC when needed and take ownership in driving operational excellency forwards. Your team manages some of Spire's most critical ground stack software, responsible for the transfer of mission critical files, therefore, you should have a strong software engineering background to lead your team.\nWhat You'll Do:\nYou will be involved in roadmap planning and prioritization and responsible for its delivery\nYou are going to find a good balance between mission delivery commitments, product and tech improvements in the work that your team does\nYou will drive the development and execution of the roadmap across application development, testing, deployment, and operations.\nYou will interface with other ICs, engineering managers, technical program managers, system engineers and others.\nYou'll work alongside your team and tech lead to develop elegant technical solutions to customer needs, together with your team of developers distributed between the US and Europe.\nYou will make sure the technical vision of the team is aligned with business priorities and implemented on time and to a high standard. 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If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-MK1\n\nGlobal Perks\n️ Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)\nLaunch Attendance\nGenerous Time Off Policy\nEducation Assistance Program\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nEmployee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)\nFamily Leave\nFitness Reimbursement\nEmployee Referral Program\nHealthy snacks & beverages in every office\n\nAbout Spire\nWe improve life on Earth with data from space.\nSpire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. 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This may include criminal history and employment verification.\nPlease take a moment to review Spire's Global Data Privacy Notice for Employees, Contractors, Candidates and Visitors, as well as Spire's Privacy Policy.\n\nKindly be advised that communication regarding your application may come from @spire.com, @recruiting.spire.com, or from Candidate.fyi (our scheduling tool).","datePosted":"2026-04-14T10:21:18.145Z","dateModified":"2026-04-14T10:21:18.145Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Spire","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Boulder","addressRegion":"CO","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"a37a77a56bf2b23b2c9b26c1"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a37a77a56bf2b23b2c9b26c1"}}