We are looking for a Software Team Manager to lead, coach, and grow a cross-functional software engineering team delivering automation and production software solutions. This role combines people leadership, delivery ownership, technical judgment, and stakeholder management across global teams.
About MiTek
MiTek is a global construction technology company that delivers software, services, engineered products, and automated solutions to support a more integrated Design-Make-Build approach. MiTek Vietnam is a large engineering and services hub supporting customers and teams across multiple global regions.
Project / Team context
Lead a software team supporting automation products and production software used in the residential construction ecosystem.
Partner with Product Management, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Customer Support, and global engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
Drive engineering excellence across Agile delivery, quality ownership, secure coding, maintainability, operational readiness, and continuous improvement
What you will do
People leadership: Lead, coach, and develop software engineers and QA members through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, career development, and capability planning.
Delivery management: Own team execution plans, sprint commitments, dependencies, risks, and delivery predictability while maintaining sustainable team performance.
Technical leadership: Guide technical discussions, architecture alignment, design reviews, code quality practices, and engineering standards without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
Stakeholder collaboration: Work with global Product, Architecture, Operations, QA, and customer-facing teams to clarify priorities, communicate status, and resolve cross-team issues.
Quality and operational excellence: Promote strong practices in testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, documentation, incident learning, and production readiness.
Process improvement: Continuously improve Agile ceremonies, planning discipline, estimation, engineering metrics, risk management, and team operating model.
Talent contribution: Support hiring, onboarding, knowledge sharing, succession planning, and team engagement activities for MiTek Vietnam software teams.
Required qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a team lead,
engineering manager, software manager, or equivalent leadership role.
Ability to connect multiple data sources and systems
Understanding of Digital Thread concepts
Knowledge of simulation, automated testing, software engineering, machine telemetry, and data pipelines
Ability to drive customer-facing data solutions and cross-functional collaboration
Solid understanding of modern software engineering practices, SDLC, Agile/Scrum or Kanban, software quality, release management, and production support.
Good English communication skills; B2 CEFR or equivalent is preferred for daily collaboration with international teams.
Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to balance technical quality, delivery outcomes, customer value, and team sustainability.
Preferred qualifications
Experience leading cross-functional teams that include developers, QA engineers,
business analysts, and/or
DevOps engineers.
Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, cloud delivery, software security practices, and engineering metrics.
Familiarity with automation, digital manufacturing, CAD/BIM, production systems, industrial applications, or construction technology domains.
Experience managing distributed teams and collaborating with stakeholders in Australia, New Zealand, North America, Europe, or other global regions.
Demonstrated ability to improve engineering processes, reduce delivery risk, mentor future leaders, and scale team capability.
Leadership competencies we value
Ownership
Takes responsibility for people, delivery, quality, and commitments; follows through with transparency.
Collaboration
Builds strong relationships across Product, Engineering, QA, Operations, and global stakeholder groups.
Continuous improvement
Uses metrics, retrospectives, customer feedback, and technical insight to make the team better over time.
Why you'll love working here
Competitive salary with 13th‐month bonus, productivity bonus, and annual salary review
Comprehensive healthcare package, including 24/24 personal accident insurance
State‐of‐the‐art office environment (gym, shower, basketball & soccer field) with a high‐end laptop provided
Work hand‐in‐hand with global software teams (Australia, New Zealand, UK, US, Canada...)
Strong learning culture: paid self‐learning hours, LinkedIn Learning & Pluralsight access, in‐person classes with professional trainers (leadership, soft skills, English...), workshops, technical sharing activities...
Clear career development with structured onboarding, ongoing training, and a mentorship program
Flexible working: 5‐day work week and flexible start times
Free lunch and free parking
Team bonding through quarterly team‐building events, yearly company outing, and a special 3‐year anniversary trip
Active social clubs: gym, yoga, football, badminton, swimming...