Sr. Manager of Engineering

How You’ll Make a Difference

As a Senior Manager of Engineering, you will lead one or more high-impact feature teams responsible for building, scaling, and operating Allego’s flagship B2B SaaS platform. You’ll balance people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical stewardship, while partnering closely with Product, UX, and Architecture to turn strategy into reliable, customer-facing outcomes.

You’ll join a collaborative, flexible environment where engineering leaders are empowered to shape how teams work, grow, and deliver. Your leadership will directly influence product quality, team health, and Allego’s ability to innovate at scale.

You will be integral to Allego’s success by:

• Leading and developing engineering teams
• Manage, mentor, and grow a cross-platform team of web, cloud, iOS, and Android engineers
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and psychological safety
• Support career development through coaching, feedback, and clear growth paths
• Driving execution and delivery
• Own planning, execution, and delivery for a defined product or platform area
• Ensure teams consistently deliver high-quality, scalable solutions on predictable timelines
• Balance new feature development with operational excellence and technical sustainability
• Partnering cross-functionally
• Work closely with Product Management and UX to scope initiatives, align priorities, and translate requirements into actionable plans
• Collaborate with architects and engineering peers to evolve Allego’s high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS platform
• Strengthening platform reliability and scale
• Champion engineering best practices across cloud-native architecture, security, observability, and performance
• Guide teams in building resilient, maintainable systems using technologies such as AWS, microservices, Java, and React
• Leveraging AI to amplify impact
• Apply modern AI tools and practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery speed
• Encourage thoughtful experimentation with AI-driven capabilities that enhance both the product and the development process
• Shaping culture and process
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to continuously improve agile processes, tooling, and team effectiveness
• Contribute to hiring strategy, onboarding, and long-term organizational health for the Allego engineering function

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Teams deliver customer value consistently, with high quality and predictable outcomes
• Engineers are engaged, growing, and clear on expectations and career progression
• Platform capabilities scale reliably to meet customer and business needs
• Cross-functional partners view engineering as a trusted, proactive collaborator
• AI and automation meaningfully improve how teams build and ship software

Requirements

The Ideal Candidate Will Have

• 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role, leading teams of engineers
• 5+ years of hands-on experience working within agile development environments
• Strong communication, coaching, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines
• Proven experience delivering and operating scalable, resilient SaaS applications
• Practical experience with cloud-native architectures and modern technologies (e.g., AWS, microservices, Java, React)
• Experience using AI tools or techniques to improve engineering productivity or development workflows
• Experience leading or collaborating with geographically distributed teams
  

Preferred

• Experience managing senior engineers
• Background in B2B SaaS or multi-tenant platforms at scale
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  

Benefits

Allego offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits program that enables employees to choose the benefits that best fit their needs and the needs of their families. Full time new hires are eligible for most benefits on the first day of employment:

• Medical/dental/vision
• Unlimited vacation
• Paid parental leave
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) with matching
• Short & long term disability, AD&D, life insurance
• Allego Stock options

*This position is posted as hybrid, however remote candidates may be considered.*