Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage the performance, development and engagement of software engineers (4-6 direct reports)
• Includes hiring and growing of a high-performance team in shipping full stack web applications, features and services
• Drives execution by organizing team work, setting goals, and holding the team accountable, including monitoring and escalating team issues
• Collaborates with Product Owners, designers, and QA on scheduling, planning, and sizing of functional specifications and software designs
• Works against bottlenecks impacting the team so they can make progress towards team and department goals
• Stays familiar with industry advances that may improve the team’s ability to execute more efficiently
• Responsible for the quality and technical output of the team
• Recruits, interviews, and onboards new team members
• Helps foster a culture of growth, openness, and opportunities for your team, including regular collaboration with other Engineering Leaders to drive accountability, autonomy, inclusion, diversity, and performance across the department
• Participates in code reviews, technical/architectural design and discussions, ensuring teams have healthy on-call escalations and incident management

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:

• 4+ years’ experience doing software engineering in a hands-on capacity - front-end and back-end focus
• 2+ years management and / or team leadership experience in a software development role
• Demonstrated ability to focus on process improvements and key performance metrics that add to the overall effectiveness of the development team
• Able to collaborate effectively and act as a partner in product decisions
• Understanding systems and software architecture similar to a Sr. level engineer with considerations towards high traffic scalable web and distributed systems with an eye towards improving quality, reliability, performance and scalability
• Proficiency in Front-End and Backend-End technologies
• High level proficiency with CI/CD processes
• Experience with containerization preferred
• Experience with large data sets preferred

Qualifications

Bonus Points:

• Believing and encouraging all developers to own the systems and be accountable to their reliability will product the best developer satisfaction and user outcomes.
• Understanding that you’re also “product”, you are a partner in this setup. You own the product and outcomes just as much as the PM, the designer folks do
• Caring about the business outcomes and the customers
• Owning the how. Lean in and support the planning, estimation, and project management process along with your product counterpart