Manager, Software Engineering (C++, GoLang, or Java) - 2 Days Onsite - Reston, VA - FreeWheel

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of software engineers, providing them with direction, guidance, and opportunities for growth.
• Collaborate with the BuyerCloud Product Management team to deliver new features to Buyercloud customers.
• Provide guidance on technical architecture, design philosophies, and engineering practices for your team.
• Drive improvements to Ad Serving software infrastructure.
• Ensure adherence to deadlines, specifications, and budgets.
• Review team members’ work to ensure quality to team standards.
• Provide technical support and training in Ad Serving capabilities.
• Implement and review employee performance metrics.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies.

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Communication: Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques. Be transparent.
• Organization: Set priorities, track work, and be transparent.
• Analyze: Effective at looking at data to inform an approach or decision.
• Creativity: Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and to create new opportunities.
• Lead: Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness. Positively influence others to achieve results in the organization's best interest.
• Plan: Determine strategies to move the organization forward, set goals, create, and implement action plans, and evaluate the process and results.
• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.

Working Conditions

• The Manager, Software Engineering must successfully work with team members located in multiple remote locations and time zones. Working conditions agree with conditions described within FreeWheel’s company handbook unless explicitly noted in this document.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years related experience with technical leadership. Experience in the media or advertising industry is a huge plus.
• 10+ years of overall software development experience.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficient in building distributed applications using object-oriented languages such as C++, Java, Rust, or Go.
• Experience in deploying and operating applications in a public cloud provider.
• Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Git, and MS Office products.
• AWS certification is a bonus
• Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience
• Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.

Skills

• Leadership
• Software Development
• Communication