Software Engineering Manager @ Telmate

About us:

Telmate is a leading provider of inmate communications, education and entertainment services with a primary mission to create innovative technologies that lower recidivism by increasing the secured connections between inmates and their friends & family and community.

Our Mission

To create secure technology that empowers inmates to break the cycle of recidivism while protecting and serving facilities and our communities.

Our Team

A startup culture with a surefooted product.

Enjoy the best of both worlds – a fun, fast-paced work environment with the reliability of a profitable product base. Our established main product gives us the room to focus our innovation on new industry-changing projects.

Don’t just code, invent. With many patented products, including custom hardware solutions, we’re building more than just the next social media clone.

Our teams get to work on many challenging hardware and software projects including: Custom Android kernel, native Android & IOS applications, hardware kiosks and secure video stations, custom android tablets, Web RTC, SIP, Ruby based SaaS applications, multiple physical data centers along with AWS and much more.

The Role:

Telmate is seeking another seasoned software engineering manager to help scale its technology and teams. This person should care as much about leadership & mentoring as they do about software development & project management.

Our ideal candidate has:

• BS in CS or related field
• 5 years experience in software engineering
• You have experience leading a team of engineers and guiding them through their career development.
• Eagerness to mentor, experience with project management and strong leadership skills
• Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work.
• Experience in Agile Scrum software development
• Excellent communication skills including written and spoken English with high attention to detail

Bonus points for:

• Experience in WebRTC
• Experience with mobile messaging apps.
• Experience with Video streaming

You will:

• Manage an engineering team at Telmate of 5-7 people
• Participate in architecture discussions and decisions
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers, and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals.
• Help to drive coding standards, code reviews, and coding estimates.
• Manage team deliverables, handle team interdependencies and work closely with Product Management, Design, Sales and Customer Support.
• Management/Strategy and Coding are at 75%-25%

Here’s what we’re offering:

• Catered Meals, Snack Pantry. Each week brings different, yummy catered meals.
• Commuter & Bike Perks. Clipper card program plus a safe place to hang your bike. How very SF.
• Feelin’ Kinda Scrummy? Like post-its? So do we. Agile scrum is the way that we roll.
• Team Outings & Happy Hours. Bowling, zip-lining, fancy dinners, off-site hack-a-thons and more.
• Medical, Dental and Vision care coverage for employees and family members

Telmate is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.