Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

Technical & Functional Leadership

• Lead a cross-functional engineering effort to deliver aircraft performance–driven optimization features from concept to deployment.
• Design system architectures that account for "Day of Ops" realities, ensuring reliability and speed for dispatchers making time-critical go/no-go decisions.
• Translate mathematical models and engineering logic into maintainable, scalable software architectures.
• Define the technical roadmap, architecture, and coding standards for optimization-related systems and services.
• Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring quality, reliability, and compliance with aviation data standards.
• Partner with data, DevOps, and QA teams to establish best practices for testing, validation, and continuous delivery.
• Understand and functional requirements of the product and the ecosystem, and guide the development team to translate the requirements to design and architecture.
• Own end to end delivery of the product and services pertaining to flight plan and data services for airlines.

Software Development & Integration

• Develop backend services and APIs that operationalize performance models and optimization logic.
• Integrate with existing Jeppesen ForeFlight platforms and third-party Flight Planning Systems (FPS) to deliver end-to-end optimization workflows.
• Implement logic that accounts for ground operations constraints (e.g., turn-around times, slot management, weight & balance limits) within optimization algorithms.
• Build interfaces for ingesting, processing, and distributing aircraft-specific performance data.
• Collaborate with mobile and web developers to ensure seamless presentation that enhances, rather than disrupts, the dispatcher’s situational awareness.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Act as the technical liaison between Performance Engineering and Flight Operations, ensuring software solutions align with dispatch workflows and regulatory requirements (FAA/EASA).
• Work closely with aircraft performance engineers to understand model inputs, assumptions, and expected outputs.
• Partner with product managers to translate optimization concepts into user-facing features.
• Coordinate with cloud infrastructure and data teams to ensure scalability, resilience, and security.
• Support validation and testing efforts using real-world flight, OCC, and ground operational data.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers focused on performance-based optimization.
• Cultivate a team culture that values "Operational Empathy"—understanding the persona of the dispatcher and the pressures of the OCC environment.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture grounded in technical excellence and operational discipline.
• Help define and track success metrics for optimization performance and system reliability.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and professional development within the team.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical or team leadership role.
• Proven experience building and deploying cloud-native applications (AWS preferred).
• Expertise in Python for data processing and service development, and proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript for API or integration work.
• Familiarity with modern backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Flask, or Node.js/Express).
• Strong understanding of data modeling, APIs, and distributed system design.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative development workflows (GitHub or GitLab).
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering projects from design to delivery.
• Strong understanding of airlines OCC and dispatcher user cases. Preferably working experience with the airlines ground controls, flight planning and dispatch of fleets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in or closely with an Airline OCC, Dispatch, or Ground Operations environment.
• Familiarity with Flight Release logic, Fuel Planning, Weight & Balance, and NOTAM/Weather integration.
• Hold an FAA Aircraft Dispatcher certificate (or international equivalent) or have significant domain knowledge of flight planning workflows.
• Experience working with or implementing optimization algorithms (e.g., route, cost, or fuel efficiency optimization).
• Experience developing data pipelines or integrating with systems that process high-frequency operational data.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud orchestration tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (ECS or Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of API design principles (REST, GraphQL) and versioning best practices.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to translate engineering concepts for operational, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating with data scientists or engineers to deploy ML or algorithmic models into production.

Why You Should Join: 

• Group Medical insurance
• Group term life, personal accident, and critical illness insurance
• Gym reimbursement
• 20 days of paid vacation time
• 12 days of paid sick time
• Employee Assistance Program