Engineering Manager
BusPatrolSchool Bus company
Austin, United StatesManager
GI Partners
FIT Ventures
Weatherford Capital
Oaktree Capital Management
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead engineering team for platform modernization at BusPatrol.
- •At BusPatrol, we’re transforming student transportation safety through cutting-edge technology and real-time automated enforcement.
- •We’re seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our platform modernization journey—from a legacy monolith to a modern, microservices-based Automated Safety Platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Leadership & People Management: Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing engineering team, creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
- •Organizational Growth: Scale the engineering organization to meet business needs while ensuring strong talent development and retention.
- •Strategic Partnership: Collaborate with U.S.-based leaders, product, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities and drive business impact.
- •Technical Direction: Provide guidance on architecture, system design, and best practices as we transition from monolith to microservices and serverless platforms.
- •Execution & Delivery: Ensure timely, high-quality, and reliable delivery of initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
- •Engineering Excellence: Champion practices such as AI-Driven development, spec or harness led development methods, CI/CD, observability, secure coding, and test-driven development to raise the technical bar.
- •Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Encourage experimentation and adopt modern technologies that improve scalability, performance, and developer productivity.
- •Requirements 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role.
- •Proven ability to build, grow, and lead high-performing engineering teams.
- •Experience guiding teams through platform transformations (e.g., monolith to microservices, cloud/serverless adoption).
- •Strong background in backend systems using Python; exposure to frontend frameworks (React/Angular) a plus.
- •Solid understanding of AWS cloud services (Lambda, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, API Gateway) and event-driven architectures.
- •Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and modern DevOps practices.
- •Knowledge of computer vision based applications, use of VLM technologies is helpful.
- •Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across geographies.
- •Passion for mentoring and developing future leaders.
- •BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Required skills
Engineering ManagementPythonAWSMicroservicesCI/CDDockerKubernetesMentoring
Nice-to-have skills
ReactAngularMongoDBDynamoDBS3Computer Vision
Tech stack
PythonAWSMicroservicesCI/CDDockerKubernetesReactAngularMongoDBDynamoDBS3Computer Vision