software_engineering_mgmt_skills_and_behaviors.md

Behaviors:

• You take responsibility rather than pass the buck
• You write
• You establish expectations
• You love 1:1s

Skills:

Table-stakes

• Ability to find/attract, hire, and retain a strong engineering team that can execute on the company's vision and priorities.
• Ability to chart a path for professional growth for every member on the engineering team.
• Ability to define, implement, measure, and improve a healthy software engineering and development process.
• Ability to provide input, guidance, and feedback on major architecture decisions (including software and hardware infrastructure).
• Ability to review code and provide input/feedback on any part of the software stack.
• Ability to work with product management to prioritize and estimate work and provide input in to the product roadmap and planning.
• Ability to define and enforce working agreements to collaborate most efficiently with product management and customer success.
• Ability to support customer success with information and resources from engineering.
• Ability to provide help to Sales when prospects or customers require engineering input (in RFPs or specific aspects of the product).
• Ability to provide visiblity into software engineering and development to rest of the company.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in building and growing a Web SaaS.
• Ability to debug reported issues and write code to build new features.
• Experience in building and/or scaling a product using newer technologies (E.g. In 2018: machine learning, microservices architecture, etc).