Software Engineering Manager

Business Unit:

Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Director of Software Engineering for ITS, the Software Engineering Manager is accountable for the end-to-end engineering leadership of the SynchroStudio and SPM product lines. This role serves as a people manager and technical leader, responsible for shaping engineering strategy, ensuring product quality, and delivering on-time and within budget commitments. The Manager will directly oversee technical leads, guide long-term product architecture, and ensure alignment with the broader ITS platform direction. The Software Engineering Manager plays a key role in driving engineering excellence, and ensuring both product teams operate with consistency, transparency, and predictable delivery.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead the engineering teams for SynchroStudio and SPM, including technical leads, software engineers, and cross-functional contributors. Contributes to budget planning, staffing plans, and resource allocation across product teams. Ensure engineering deliverables meet committed timelines, quality expectations, and scope objectives. Set and maintain the technical vision for SynchroStudio and SPM, ensuring alignment with the ITS platform strategy. Oversee architectural decisions, technical designs, and engineering patterns across both product lines. Provide technical oversight and ensure solutions meet scalability, quality, security, and maintainability standards Partner closely with Product Management to plan roadmaps, define scope, and translate product goals into actionable engineering work Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, agile development processes, and quality standards Establish consistent sprint ceremonies, reporting expectations, and performance metrics across all teams. Coordinate with UX/UI, QA, DevOps, and Platform Engineering to ensure consistency and alignment across the product ecosystem. Conduct routine performance evaluations, provide coaching and feedback, and support long-term career development. Communicate engineering progress, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Represent SynchroStudio and SPM engineering in planning discussions, steering committees, and cross-organizational forums

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time leading teams in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated success managing engineering managers or technical leads.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS preferred), distributed architectures, and scalable enterprise applications.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate across both technical and non‑technical groups.
• Experience coordinating global teams or third‑party engineering partners is a plus.

Cubic Pay Range:

• Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market.

*The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.*

Worker Type:

Employee