Software Engineer Manager

About Us

G Adventures is the world’s largest small-group adventure travel company and we’ve been making epic travel memories happen on all seven continents for over 30 years.
Our mission is simple: to change lives through travel. And not just our travelers’ either. Since day one, our tours have been built to establish meaningful relationships with local communities, directly benefiting the people and places we visit at every step of our tours.
With the demand for travel coming back strong, we are set up and excited for this next chapter in our company’s story — and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Our DNA revolves around building, nurturing, and developing a diverse culture of people and a true sense of belonging, where everyone is encouraged to bring their authentic self to work each and every day. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, and yourself, alongside a passionate, talented, and welcoming community that works hard to spread goodness around the world.
If all that sounds like your kind of thing, well, we can’t wait for you to join us.

About the Role:

Software Engineering Manager, Hybrid Boston Software Engineering Manager, Hybrid Boston. Reporting to the Director of Platform Systems, this role will be responsible for managing the team responsible for the development and maintenance of our proprietary Reservations Systems. Ensuring system stability, uptime, performance, and high customer satisfaction are key metrics for success. Engineering Managers at G Adventures wear multiple hats, collaborating with the business on the product roadmap and driving our agile development process. The development team is distributed across multiple regions, so the ability to build cohesion and engagement remotely is key. The Software Engineering Manager will help identify, plan & implement multi-year programs for all practical migrations of applications from future acquisitions, to the systems under their purview. If this sounds exciting to you, come join our team!

Please note this is a hybrid remote role based out of the Boston, MA office two days a week.

What You'll be Doing:

• Manage the software development team (6 devs) that designs, builds, and maintains 3 proprietary applications that are used to build and operate tours

• Collaborate with the Director of Platform Systems and SMEs to establish development roadmap and strategy, establish project timelines

• Capture upcoming business needs from internal stakeholders to plan and scope future feature development

• Prioritize a high-volume of competing tasks in a fast-paced environment, manage stakeholder expectations

• Identify engineering challenges to architect and implement scalable solutions

• Mentor team members with respect to best software engineering practices and internal standards (code reviews, pair programming, etc)

• Define performance standards and ensure adherence to those standards

• Conduct interviews to assist with hiring qualified team members

• Monitor team member performance, set individual goals, meet for regular 1-on-1s, and perform yearly reviews

• Work with the Technology management team to define departmental policy, process, and procedures

• Improve team engagement within G Adventures as a whole

• Research new or existing technologies that would benefit customers

Desired Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of software development experience

• 3+ years of managing software developers

• Experience with python & Django development, React is a plus

• Strong leadership, motivation and interpersonal skills

• Communicates, manages effectively both horizontally and vertically

• Able to explain complex technical solutions to non-technical staff

• Deep knowledge of software standards; excitement about related technologies

• Proven data architectural skills, DBA experience is a plus

• Cloud Technologies, Terraform and automated pipeline experience is a plus

• Understanding of performance monitoring and optimization techniques

• Knowledge of software development lifecycles and Kanban/Agile methodologies

• University bachelor's degree in computer science or related experience

What do we offer you?

• Competitive salary commensurate with the role

• Competitive benefits package 

• Birthday day off

• Vacation time for you to recharge

• Enhanced Parental Leave

• Learning and growth opportunities

• Employee Resource Groups

*Applicable based on location*

G Adventures is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We consider all qualified applicants.