Who is Sonar?
Sonar is driving the future of agent-centric software development. As the leader in AI code review and verification, we solve a critical problem: ensuring that software generated by AI-assisted developers or autonomous agents is reliable, secure, and maintainable.
Integrating seamlessly with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and Devin, we help over 75% of the Fortune 100 build trusted, reliable, compliant software. Customers who use Sonar are 44% less likely to report an outage due to AI-generated code.
We believe code verification is the critical missing link in the Agent-Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC). Industry giants like Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.count on us to provide independent, explainable, consistent review and governance of their AI-generated code via products like:
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SonarQube: The world’s leading AI code review and verification platform.
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SonarQube Foundation Agent: Currently topping the leaderboards for agentic software repair.
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SonarSweep & Sonar Context Augmentation: Providing the enterprise-grade context and constraints agents need to be truly effective.
Our team operates across global hubs in Austin, Bochum, Dubai, Geneva, London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. We move with a mindset we call CODE:
With over $400M in revenue and profitable, fast-paced growth, we are building the backbone of the AI software revolution. If you’re hungry to have an impact, want to build at a fast pace, and ready to work at the forefront of AI, we want to hear from you.
Position description
As an Engineering Manager at Sonar, you will lead a squad of 5-10 developers to build, automate and operate software used by millions of Sonar customers worldwide. You will own the professional growth and development of your team, enabling them to build well-crafted software for our products, and promoting a high-performance engineering culture.
You will improve our products by leading the elaboration of the squad's annual and quarterly objectives in close collaboration with the Product Management team while contributing to and overseeing technical architecture and engineering direction.
You will help to bring consistency across SonarSource’s engineering organization by collaborating closely with your engineering manager peers to foster and share engineering best practices.
As part of the role, you will participate in an on-call rotation to provide timely support and address any critical system issues that may arise outside of regular working hours.
Lead and manage a team of Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and contribute to the team's success.
Ensure that the engineers are equipped for success to deliver a monthly release of SonarQube.
Help engineers build a platform for the delivery of other functional squads.
Hold yourself and your team accountable to a high engineering standard.
Foster a safe culture of feedback, continuous improvement, and collaboration, encouraging team members to share their ideas and concerns openly.
Align feedback with other teams to ensure things operate smoothly between teams.
Partner with product managers, designers, and team leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the company strategy and ensure that the team's work and focus align with this vision.
Be responsible that the squad defines clear objectives aligned with team, department, and company goals.
Be accountable that the squad tracks sprints and progress.
Be accountable that processes and ceremonies align with company expectations to deliver the best product successfully.
Ensure the right level of collaboration happens with the squad stakeholders (Product Managers, developer squads, Marketing, Management, etc.).
Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
Be accountable that the onboarding of new team members is happening in the squad.
Lead by example, modeling the behaviors and values that the company holds dear, including humility and servant leadership.
3+ years of experience in a leadership or management role, with a proven track record of delivering results and building high-performing teams.
8+ years of software development or equivalent experience in the software development domain, with a strong understanding of software testing.
Having a developer mindset: experience with coding lifecycle, ability to produce secure code, to do code reviews, and to jump into an unknown codebase, language, and framework.
Advanced knowledge of the Java ecosystem and a good understanding of the DevOps mindset.
Good knowledge of at least one programming language along with its development environment to understand end-user's context and expectations.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
A growth mindset and a passion for helping individuals and teams reach their full potential.
Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and resources effectively.
Capability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to clearly identify the problem to be solved and articulate it, before jumping to possible solutions/actions.
Ability to deliver effective feedback.
Good listening skills.
Ability to face small conflicts in a healthy way and help parties resolve them.
High level of autonomy and still accepting help and feedback from team members and peers.
Ability to challenge yourself.
This role is based in Geneva. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Geneva, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.
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