Position: Engineering Manager, Front-End

Location: Chicago Loop

About Raise

Raise is the largest, most trusted marketplace where our mission is to help consumers make their money worth more. Shoppers can buy discounted gift cards to over 3,000 brands or sell their unwanted gift cards for cash through our mobile applications and website.

Raise partners with retailers to offer a new type of digital payment, and since our launch in 2013, we have saved consumers over $100M to date. Raise is headquartered in Chicago with an office in New York.

About The Position

Raise is searching for an Engineering Manager to lead our front-end development efforts and help shape our evolving front-end technical landscape. If you are an expert at web technologies, skilled in architecting modern web applications and passionate about leadership, this role is for you.

This position at Raise represents a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing technology organization that is re-platforming to ReactJS and Golang. Engineering managers at Raise are hands on and play a critical role in leading our engineers to achieve great results. Our Engineering managers have technical backgrounds and they are passionate about apprenticeship, on-going development and mentorship.

This position reports to the Head of Engineering and is responsible for providing visibility into the performance and success of their team. This requires a unique balance of technology leadership and product sense—so the ideal candidate will have experience building substantial products, services and high performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and hire exceptional engineering talent and facilitate onboarding of new team members
• Guide, mentor, manage and develop a high-performance team
• Provide overall accountability for all aspects of team delivery
• Work with other engineering teams to identify and anticipate changing requirements and opportunities to improve the development environment
• Work with engineers and product teams to prioritize, plan and schedule work
• Collaborate with stakeholders, product management, and engineers to ensure that solutions meet business needs
• Communicate status, risks and requirements to other groups
• Provide technical and non-technical guidance to the team, both individually and as a group
• Facilitate continuous learning and improvement for the team and its members
• Drive down cost and time of delivery through ongoing improvements to Continuous Delivery technologies
• Provide regular, consistent feedback to team members as well as overall performance reviews

Skills & Qualifications

• You are a natural leader and have a strong love for people development and management
• 3+ years of collaborative team leadership experience with 5 or more direct reports
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Technical leadership and hands on skills in front-end web languages (ReactJS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) with experience driving cutting-edge web systems at scale
• Opinion on responsive design techniques, open-source libraries, progressive enhancement and experience driving these techniques in a large team
• Experience working with service oriented architectures, distributed systems and developing complex UIs that leverage RESTful JSON APIs
• Demonstrate leadership in both technology, product and management
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in a cross-functional Agile environment
• Organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep teams engaged
• BS or MS in Computer Science preferred or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(K) with match, disability and life insurance
• Minimum 15 days PTO plus 11 paid holidays
• Raise Gives Back- 8 paid hours allotted annually for volunteer opportunities
• Pre-tax commuter program
• Paid parental leave
• $5,000 adoption credit
• Breakfast and healthy snacks provided every day and catered lunch on Fridays

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