Manager, Software Engineering - Omni

Paradigm is a software company transforming the way that the residential, construction & building product industries operate across the globe. We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineering - Omni to be part of revolutionizing these industries. We are building the future with modern software engineering, agent-assisted systems, and mobile-first experiences. We are powered by our parent company, Builders FirstSource (NYSE: BLDR): a Fortune 300 company with over $23 billion in revenue and more than 29,000 employees across 550+ locations, BFS is redefining construction through data, digital infrastructure, and AI-powered innovation.

What You Will Do

• Oversee and manage Engineering professionals. Generally work with smaller teams on low to medium complexity projects, or subsets of higher complexity projects.
• Lead areas of a project from requirements to execution.
• Follow appropriate agile and/or other development principles to ensure quality and performance standards.
• Understand where service delivery gaps can occur within work of team and help implement plans to close service delivery gaps.
• Identify and turn ambiguous challenges into clear plans that can be executed by your team and others. Can guide technology experimentation.
• Manage resources, including allocation of current resources into organizational priorities, developing resource plans and roadmaps for future software engineering needs.
• Understand business needs, system functionalities and processes.
• Responsible for team culture (including building a positive and supportive human-centric work environment) and architecture (design, extensibility, scalability, effect on other systems, etc.).
• Ensure communication of standards (e.g., coding standards and review).
• Solve complex and escalated aspects of a project as needed.
• Review design documentation and lead a team that performs coding, debugging, testing, troubleshooting, and threat modeling throughout the development process.
• Handle the resolution of sensitive issues.
• Stay current on industry trends. Implement and monitor new technologies, industry trends and best practices.
• Maintain long-term relationships with vendors and other third-party resources to ensure high quality services are delivered consistently.
• Provide the right amount of information – descriptions are concise, timelines have estimates, ownership is clear, call out risks and blockers with a path forward, etc.
• Evaluate runbooks and system maintenance documentation to make sure they are effective and usable by frontline support.
• Hold retrospectives and post-mortems to help SWEs grow.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to hold technical discussions and solve immediate problems.
• Provide input to leadership team on development priorities and resource allocation.

What You Need to Succeed

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including 1+ years of people leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices (e.g., data handling, security, code construction, testing, deployment, maintenance) with the ability to assess SWE practices.
• Understand the long-term impact of software decisions. Exercise sound judgment to identify when short-term workarounds are appropriate and when they risk creating technical debt.