Remote PHP Engineering Manager

Location Zip Code : 84604

Job Family :

Exempt Jobs, Management

As an Engineering Manager on Aptive’s Engineering team, you will help drive the technical direction and delivery of our solutions, platform, and products. This ideal candidate will have experience building software platforms and compute infrastructure at scale, expertise around emerging technologies, and will know how to develop the right products around the needs of internal and external customers.

Job Type : Full-time

Location : Remote

Compensation :   160k-165k + 10% manager bonus

What we offer :

Group Health, Dental, and Vision plans

Pet insurance, Life insurance, and EAP benefits

401K with employer match

Paid holidays and paid time off

Opportunity for advancement

Upbeat and exciting company culture and much more!

Responsibilities :

Be able to operate as a Senior-level developer

Work with an architecture guild to propose, test, implement and evangelize solid architecture design for Aptive

Responsible for team’s technical metrics (agile delivery, application, and service KPIs)

Work with Scrum Master to help prioritize tasks assigned and distribution across the team

Manage technical debt backlog and articulate value to Product Owner to help prioritize amongst business features

Motivate and Manage individual team members’ performance

Help communicate risks, dependencies, and mitigation plan

Helps balance feature delivery with stability, technical debt, and code quality.

Able to drive consistency in development and quality processes and standards

Identify roadblocks to remove impediments for team members

Work directly with other engineering managers, UX teams, product managers, and Scrum teams when needed for research and development of novel solutions to technical problems.

Manage change to support teams to rapidly deliver stable, high-performing, and reliable code (requires frequent interaction with teams by teleconference)

Identify opportunities for training, improve development processes, and help build great delivery teams.

Drive the implementation of product features through stages of planning, execution, and review.

Measures of Success

Holds their team accountable, and are involved enough in the details to be ready to intervene, to ensure conformity with company coding and architecture standards, and their team’s productivity for the maturity and success of the products.

Regularly assess team’s performance (sprint velocity, burn down, bugs, reactivation rates) and retrospectives (improve estimation, committed vs delivered) for continuous improvement

Report team progress metrics for up-to-date reports to senior leadership.

An ideal team player—humble, hungry, smart—who maintains excellent communications and relationships with all.

Monitors and directs improvement to the efficiency of the team's code, and stability of products—spend 50% of time on the improvement of code and schema architecture.

Timeliness of releases within each sprint

Peer reviews

Qualifications :

Advanced degree in Computer Science or related Engineering field

Requirements :

5+ years of industry experience

2 years of minimum experience leading engineering organizations.

Prior development experience with PHP, MySQL, Javascript

Experience working on distributed services

Scrum Agile experience

Hands-on engineering experience and experience leading technical projects

Prior experience using AI technology, including GitHub CoPilot Agent, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor

Aptive Environmental :

Aptive Environmental provides pest control services to 34 states in the US. Co-founded in 2015 by Vess Pearson and David Royce, Aptive launched with the clear intention of becoming a world-recognized brand.

In 2021, Aptive was included in Inc. Magazine’s “Best in Business” list of companies that make a positive impact. Aptive is also featured on Glassdoor's 2019 list of Top 100 US workplaces and is ranked one of Entrepreneur Magazine's Best Companies in America. We are a proud member of the EPA's Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program and have partnered with the United Nations Foundation’s "United to Beat Malaria" to help stop the spread of malaria transmitted by mosquito bites.