Senior Manager, Coder Fellows

About the job

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with Coding Fellows through regular one-on-ones and ongoing communication.
• Understand each Fellow's strengths, goals, challenges, and support needs.
• Set clear expectations for quality, reliability, collaboration, communication, flexibility, learning, and professional conduct.
• Gather and synthesize feedback across projects, accounting for assignment complexity and context.
• Recognize strong performance, provide candid feedback, and address concerns through improvement plans.
• Review representative work (code, pull requests, annotations, documentation) to understand quality and development needs.
• Partner with project managers and technical leads to establish clear expectations and resolve conflicts.
• Hold career conversations to help Fellows grow as individual contributors or specialists.
• Monitor quality, throughput, reliability, and team health using contextualized metrics.
• Contribute to hiring and workforce planning for the program.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, technical leadership, or a related environment.
• Direct management experience with programmers or software engineers.
• Demonstrated experience in hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance reviews, and delivering actionable feedback.
• Experience managing people across multiple projects, clients, or teams.
• Experience in a consultancy, software agency, or similar distributed environment is strongly preferred.
• Sufficient technical depth to read and discuss code, assess engineering judgment, and understand software development practices.
• Ability to evaluate performance thoughtfully, not solely based on throughput or volume.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound judgment, discretion, empathy, and a collaborative approach.