About Showpad

Showpad is the leading sales enablement platform for the modern seller. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry-leading training and coaching software and innovative sales content and engagement solutions. 

At Showpad, personalities and cultures connect across oceans to create something extraordinary. As a top 10 software company in the Inc. 5,000 Europe list, Showpad is changing the game when it comes to sales enablement. Our employees create the engagement and impact that drives our success as we expand globally.

In the morning, we’re drinking San Francisco cold brew coffee with a side of Portland doughnuts – English scones for afternoon tea, and in the evening we’re toasting success with Belgian tripel Westmalle to a Chicago house tune.

About the position

Showpad is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our growing technology team in Chicago.

As an Engineering Manager at Showpad, you’ll be a leader in driving change within our product development and engineering practices while assisting and supporting a team of engineers to do their best work.

Our engineering team in Chicago is responsible for building the Coach product within the Showpad platform. This team develops the entire platform, from the API through the frontend and mobile application.

To support and scale the team, we are looking for someone who is not only an individual contributor but is currently or is looking to help grow, train and mentor other engineers.

We are looking for someone willing and eager to drive change -- change in our process, change in the quality of our work and change in our relationship with other groups, both within Product, Engineering and elsewhere. We are looking for someone who will push members of the team to be better, invest in quality, grow their technical prowess and advocate for them and their work. The ideal candidate would serve to be a role model and mentor for more junior members of the team.

Your contributions in this role will help to build a skilled and autonomous engineering team within a 100+ person Product and Technology organization. You will be an integral part of helping to build best-in-class engineers who continuously sharpen each other's skills through code reviews, technology guilds, pair programming and agile delivery methodologies.

Our ideal candidate will be someone either interested in becoming a people manager or is already a leader of a small team. Any candidate must have an interest in being an engaged contributor to our codebase as well.

Skills and Qualifications we are looking for

• 3+ years in software development as an individual contributor
• Experience with JVM based technologies (Java, Scala, Kotlin) and frameworks (Spring, Play, Micronaut)
• Experience building an engineering team in a scale-up environment
• Passionate technologist - proven track record building and architecting complex systems
• Experience managing multiple critical software projects across multiple teams in different locations
• Accountable for the performance of the teams reporting to them (output, quality and timing/planning)
• Drives performance through clear expectations and mutual accountability 
• Drives engineering career growth via individual feedback and career development planning
• Excellent facilitator in resolving cross team, cross location problems
• Uses objectives and key results to motivate and assess performance of their team and product
• Hands-on experience with agile and lean methodologies

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in a startup environment
• Experience with Test -driven Development practices
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud technologies, containerization, Javascript MVC Frameworks such as Angular or React

What you can expect from Showpad

Focus on Impact and Growth

We are building the future in sales and marketing where every sales person is successful. As an international scale-up, we aim for yearly double digit growth that opens many opportunities. We want people who thrive in a fast-paced, performance-driven company, who are not afraid to stretch themselves in a fun environment, and focus on impact and growth.