Software Development Manager, Ring

As a Software Development Manager at Ring, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers working on embedded software and firmware used in Ring and Blink devices. A successful candidate will have strong technical skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

You will work closely with other platform, hardware, operations, user-space, and quality assurance teams.

Ring and Blink devices sit on millions of front doors and in millions of homes. Your team builds and sustains the firmware behind those cameras and doorbells: the code that wakes a battery-powered device, streams video over wireless links, and updates itself in the field without a visit from a technician. Your decisions reach customers directly, from what ships in the next over-the-air release to when a rollout is stopped.

Key responsibilities

• Ownership of the overall systems development life cycle.
• Execution against project plans and timely delivery of committed results.
• Management of day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Management of departmental resources, staffing, and mentoring.
• Building, enhancing and maintaining an engineering team.
• Working closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical designs.
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management.
• Maintenance and enhancement of software frameworks for development.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead a team of ~12 firmware engineers in Gdańsk delivering embedded software for Ring and Blink cameras and doorbells, from feature development to sustaining releases of products already in customers' homes.
• Own the release train for your products: scope, schedule, OTA rollout decisions, rollback calls, and the quality metrics behind them (device offline rate, live view success, reboots, battery).
• Drive the convergence of our device firmware onto a common platform and codebase, and the handover of launched products into sustaining.
• Drive AI-native engineering in the team: own the adoption of coding agents and AI review tooling, set the targets (share of changes produced and reviewed with AI, cycle time, defect escape rate) and report progress to leadership.
• Hire, develop and retain engineers; set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s and growth conversations, build a bench of senior engineers.
• Partner with product, TPM, QA, cloud and hardware teams in Poland and the US; represent the team to senior leadership with clear written status.

About the team Ring & Blink Firmware in Gdańsk is a 150+ engineer organisation building the firmware for Ring and Blink cameras, doorbells and sync modules sold worldwide. This team owns the firmware platform and the releases for launched products. We value ownership, decisions backed by data, and engineers who operate with AI agents as part of how they build, review and test. The manager is part of that team, works with the same tools, and sets the direction for how far AI takes the team next.

Basic qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams
• Experience leading embedded software or firmware development for connected consumer devices

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in hiring, developing and promoting engineering talent
• Experience managing release trains and OTA rollouts for shipped consumer electronics, including sustaining of multiple product lines
• Experience with battery-powered, Wi-Fi/BLE camera or video devices and their quality metrics
• Experience adopting generative AI developer tooling in a team's workflow and measuring its impact
• Experience working with distributed hardware, operations and QA partners across time zones

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The minimum gross base salary for this position is listed below. The base salary listed corresponds to working on a full-time basis. For part-time hours, the salary will be pro-rated.

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Company supplementary benefits apply subject to further terms, including pension plans, health insurance, life and disability insurance, business travel insurance, MultiSport card, employee discount code and program (EDC/Extras), and the Employee Assistance Program (private and confidential counselling and referral service to support health and well-being).

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Gdansk, POL - 33,200.00 PLN Monthly