Engineering Manager
Location: Chicago, IL
About Raise
We’re Raise, a leading retail payments company and the world’s largest gift card marketplace, that connects consumers to buy discount gift cards or sell their unwanted cards for cash. We’re partnered with over 400 national brands, offering retailers a new form of digital payment, while incentivizing consumers to make their money worth more.
Since our launch in 2013, we’ve saved millions of consumers more than $140 million! and have received $147 million in funding from investors including Accel, PayPal, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. Raise is headquartered in Chicago with an office in New York.
About The Position
Raise.com is searching for an Engineering Manager to lead cross-functional development efforts. If you are a seasoned software professional, skilled in architecting modern web applications and passionate about leadership, this role is for you.
This position represents a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing technology organization leveraging modern practices and leading-edge tech. Engineering managers leverage their technical backgrounds, passions for ongoing development and mentorship to lead our engineers to achieve great results. 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 high-performance teams
- Provide overall accountability for all aspects of team delivery
- Work with engineering teams to identify and anticipate changing requirements and opportunities to improve the development environment
- Work with engineers and product teams to help 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
- 5+ years of collaborative team leadership experience with 5 or more direct reports
- 7+ years of software development experience
- Technical leadership and experience driving leading-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
- Hands on experience in ReactJS, JavaScript, Go or Ruby preferred
- 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 that is 100% vested from day one, company paid short term and long-term disability and life insurance
- Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
- Paid time off for volunteering
- Pre-tax commuter program
- 16 weeks paid maternity leave
- Paid parental leave
- Credits for employees
- Company provided snacks, coffee and soda
- Voluntary benefits like Pet Insurance and Identity Protection
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