Manager, Engineering - TrainingPeaks

Company Information

Join the Team Powering the World's Best Endurance Athletes

At TrainingPeaks, we believe that behind every great athlete is a great coach and the right technology to help them reach their potential. Our platform is trusted by Tour de France winners, Olympic gold medalists, and everyday endurance athletes to plan, track, and analyze their training. Whether you're a performance-driven athlete, a passionate coach, or someone who simply thrives on building tools that empower others, TrainingPeaks is where ambition meets impact.

As part of the Peaksware portfolio, consisting of brands like TrainingPeaks, MakeMusic, Alfred Music, TrainHeroic, we’re united by a shared mission: to create software that transforms deliberate practice into performance. At Peaksware, we don’t just build products. We build communities of motivated people chasing progress, including athletes, musicians, performers, and the teams that support them.

General Summary

Join TrainingPeaks as a Manager, Engineering on our Core Product team to build the future of endurance training.

As Manager, Engineering, you will lead our team in developing and maintaining three key platforms: TrainingPeaks Virtual, TrainingPeaks Hub, and Run With Hal. This is a critical leadership position that blends technical expertise with a passion for people management and strategic execution.

You will be responsible for overseeing the entire software development lifecycle, from project planning and requirements gathering to deployment and delivery. Your role is to build a successful, high-performing team by fostering a collaborative environment, driving engineering excellence, and aligning your team’s efforts with company-wide goals.

You are a continuous learner with a hunger for knowledge. You approach challenges as opportunities to improve. You value team members’ input from all levels and you actively seek ways to support your colleagues.

This role is part of the Core Product Engineering Team and reports to the Director, Engineering.

Core Functions:

• Lead and Mentor: Supervise and lead a team of software engineers, providing continuous feedback, mentorship, and career development support. You'll also be actively involved in hiring and onboarding new talent.
• Manage Product Execution: Take ownership of the roadmap, integrations, and feature execution for the three platforms. You will manage all aspects of product delivery, including project planning, sprint grooming, and using agile/lean principles to ensure quality and timely releases.
• Drive Strategic Initiatives: Facilitate both engineering and go-to-market initiatives across various teams. You will work closely with peer managers, stakeholders, and executive leadership to align team goals with the company's vision and strategy.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Drive a culture of quality and best practices within the team by applying Agile/Lean principles and methodologies. This includes building and implementing key processes like CI/CD for both backend and frontend systems, establishing robust development and staging environments, and migrating our infrastructure from Microsoft Azure to AWS.
• Problem-Solve and Innovate: Balance short-term needs with long-term strategic goals. You will be responsible for managing project risks, evaluating new business initiatives, and pragmatically facilitating technical decisions with your team.

Collaborate and Communicate: Act as a key liaison between the engineering team and other departments, including Product and Marketing. You will manage relationships with all stakeholders, providing clear and continuous communication on project status, risks, and changes.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in managing or mentoring software engineers.
• 4+ years of experience delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical decisions for complex software systems.
• Recent, hands-on experience with modern cloud architecture and full-stack software delivery.
• Expertise in running an agile team and coaching agile/lean principles.
• Familiarity with customer software development in Unity, with the ability to oversee engineering requirements across Windows, Mac, and Mobile platforms.
• A proven track record of driving software best practices and improving large-scale codebases.
• Exceptional leadership abilities, with a "lead by doing" approach, and a strong history of influencing and inspiring team members.
• Experience working with a diverse set of stakeholders to gather requirements and manage expectations.
• Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associates degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching and more.

Desired Qualifications:

• Extensive experience as a hands-on software developer in a variety of environments, ideally in game development using the Unity platform.
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages, tools, and on multiple customer facing products.
• Expertise in one programming paradigm and language such as OO / C#, functional programming, etc. and ability to mentor developers within that domain, but not the lead technology expert relying on your tech lead and architect for depth of expertise.
• Experience in a testing heavy environment, able to drive test coverage for new development.
• Product management with agile delivery process experience.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Don’t worry. We still want to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Compensation

Peaksware/TrainingPeaks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The annual compensation range for this role in Colorado is $111,216 - $185,360. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.

This role is eligible for variable compensation, including bonus.

Benefits and Perks

Health

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Parental Leave
• Teladoc
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Additional coverage options such as accident and critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity

Disability and Life

• Company-paid Short Term Disability
• Company-paid Long Term Disability
• Company-paid Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
• Employee-paid Supplemental Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and/or Child

Additional

• 401(K)
• 401(K) Matching
• Pet Insurance
• 12 paid holidays annually and unlimited Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Free TrainingPeaks, TrainHeroic, MakeMusic accounts, and Alfred Music product
• Access to the Performance and Recovery Center (PARC), our on-site fitness facility
• Employee only access to on-site locker rooms and showers
• Employee only access to secure, indoor bike storage
• Access to our onsite Music Studio
• An assortment of “grab’n go” fruit and snacks as well as on tap cold brew, kombucha, and beer.
• Beautiful onsite cafe that includes indoor and outdoor seating and lounge areas.
• Access to e-bikes available exclusively to Peaksware employees
• Significant investment in resources for employee growth and development
• Corporate discounts on select gym memberships and top brand gear
• Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust

Please contact [email protected] if you require a reasonable accommodation to review our website or to apply online.

Peaksware adheres to the FLSA Exemption Threshold for minimum wage in all states.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment that is well-lighted, heated, and/or air-conditioned with adequate ventilation and a noise level that is usually moderate. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets.

All employees must comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to your manager and/or Human Resources.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and move about the facility; use hands to handle, or feel; talk by expressing ideas by means of the spoken word; and hear by perceiving the nature of sounds. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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