Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our engineering team. In this role, you will drive the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software products while fostering a collaborative, agile, and innovative culture. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into technical strategies, mentor team members, and ensure the successful execution of complex projects. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Mentorship:
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers by providing technical guidance and career development support.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team environment that values diversity and continuous improvement.
- Project & Process Management:
- Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and design to testing and deployment.
- Implement and refine agile processes (sprint planning, code reviews, retrospectives) to ensure efficient and predictable delivery.
- Manage project timelines, resources, and budgets while identifying and mitigating potential risks.
- Technical Strategy & Execution:
- Collaborate with product management, UX, and other stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and prioritize features based on business needs.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and best practices to enhance product quality, scalability, and performance.
- Ensure adherence to coding standards, quality assurance practices, and security protocols throughout the development process.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Act as a bridge between engineering and other departments, ensuring clear communication and alignment on strategic goals.
- Work with leadership to set clear objectives and measurable outcomes for the team.
Job Requirements:
- 7+ years of software development experience, with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership or management role
- Start-up mentality for rapid software evolution and experiment-based environment with fail-fast-to-move-faster mindset
- Bachelor’s, Master’s or a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics or fundamental sciences
- Proven experience managing agile teams and delivering large-scale software projects
- Strong technical background in software development, cloud computing, microservices, etc
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with a track record of developing high-performing teams
- Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices, DevOps methodologies, and modern software development tools
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to make decisions in fast-paced and dynamic environments
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
Join ABBYY, and you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140
technology patents. - We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.
- "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;
- We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
