Software Engineering Manager - Commercial Platform

Responsibilities

• People Leadership
• This is the foundation of the role. Everything else builds on your ability to lead, communicate, and develop people.
• Build trust through transparent, honest communication. Be the leader who gives your team clarity on the "why" - not just the "what." Communicate openly about priorities, trade-offs, and hard decisions.
• Develop engineers and grow careers. Provide continuous, meaningful feedback - not just quarterly reviews. Understand each team member's goals and actively create opportunities for their growth. Mentor both individual contributors and emerging team leads.
• Create psychological safety. Foster an environment where engineers feel safe to ask questions, raise concerns, surface problems early, and challenge ideas constructively. Teams that feel safe move faster and produce better outcomes.
• Navigate difficult conversations with empathy and directness. Whether it's performance feedback, conflict resolution, or organizational change, communicate hard things honestly while maintaining trust and respect.
• Hire and retain diverse, high-performing talent through inclusive recruiting practices and by building a team culture people don't want to leave.
• Actively listen. Seek to understand before being understood - whether with your team, stakeholders, or customers.
• Uphold Bluestaq's core values of trust, ownership, curiosity, teamwork, mentorship, and talent development, fostering a culture where team members take initiative, support one another, and grow together.
• Technical Direction & Problem Decomposition
• Your role is to understand technical landscapes well enough to break down complex problems, ask the right questions, and set direction.
• Break down complex technical problems into actionable plans that your team can execute against. Translate ambiguity into clarity.
• Set technical direction by partnering with senior engineers, architects, and technical lead

Benefits

Additional Information

About Bluestaq At Bluestaq, we build secure data platforms that matter for space missions, national defense, healthcare systems, and commercial innovation. Founded in 2018, we've become a leader in enterprise software and secure data management by staying focused on what counts: modern architecture, operational excellence, and mission impact. We're engineers, problem-solvers, and builders who take the mission seriously, but not ourselves. We automate the repeatable, question the status quo, and design systems that are as reliable as they are scalable. Whether we're supporting space, defense systems, or healthcare advancements, we build with the same principles: cloud-native solutions, security by design, and relentless simplicity. Our name? "Blue" (military shorthand for the good guys) and "staq" (as in software stack). It's who we are, mission-aligned technologists building platforms that protect the world's most valuable data. Recognized Excellence We've earned national recognition as one of Inc. Magazine's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and consistently rank among Colorado's Best Workplaces. But what we're most proud of? The systems we build, the teams we develop, and the mission outcomes we enable. Software Engineering Manager - Commercial Platform We are seeking a people-first, technically grounded Engineering Manager (EM) to lead high-performing teams that design, build, and deliver secure, scalable software solutions for both government and commercial customers. In this critical role, you will be the leader your team trusts - someone who creates clarity, removes barriers, and develops engineers into the best versions of themselves. You will set technical direction by breaking down complex problems and partnering closely with senior engineers and architects, while keeping your teams healthy, aligned, and delivering with velocity and quality. Your greatest impact will come through your people. You will build a culture of psychological safety, accountability, and growth - empowering your teams to take ownership and do their best work. You will partner with Product, Program, and Architecture leaders to translate strategic vision into action, and you will be the bridge that connects your team's work to the broader mission. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our engineering organization and make a direct impact on mission-critical systems that serve both government and commercial domains. Why This Role Matters Great engineering organizations are built by great leaders - not just great technologists. As an Engineering Manager, your ability to communicate clearly, develop people, and build trust is what makes everything else possible. The strongest technical strategy fails without a team that's engaged, supported, and aligned. If you are motivated by developing people, building teams where engineers thrive, and driving delivery through strong leadership and clear communication, this is your opportunity to lead impactful work that advances national security and commercial innovation.

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