Engineering Manager

What you'll do:

• Manage a team of individual contributors, including responsibility for 1:1s, giving regular feedback,  performance management and career development conversations.
• Empower the team to deliver their very best.
• Facilitate goal-level creation across the broader function and work with other managers to support team-level goal setting. 
• Understand the fundamentals of the business and ensure the technical roadmap aligns with the business opportunities. 
• Identify and implement enhancements to standards, processes, and tools.
• Evaluate new technology solutions and partnerships to accelerate the engineering and product organization.
• Collaborate closely with product management and engineering as equal stakeholders in the product development process.  
• Participate in architectural design and coordinate with other software engineering managers as needed to maintain a consistent approach across the suite of applications.  
• Consistently strive to improve collaboration and communications.  
• Partner with leaders to identify and plan capabilities required to meet customer needs.   
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to determine priorities and impact.

Skills you have:

• A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience. 
•  7+ years of experience in a software engineering role including 2+ years of experience leading high  performing engineering teams.
• Experience mentoring, motivating, and leading a team through successful software projects.
• Experience setting business expectations and scope as well as  providing technology recommendations.
• Experience working with public cloud providers and cloud native application development.
• Experience in both a high-growth startup and growing medium sized company a plus.  
• Experience or familiarity with one or more of PHP, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Java, Node.js, React,  MySQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Elasticsearch, XCUITest, Selenium, JUnit,  NUnit, Espresso.

Who you are:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams about engineering topics such as system architecture, API design, product roadmaps, and resourcing.
• Ability to work with and lead other engineers in a collaborative and iterative environment.  
• Excellent problem-solving, issue identification and technical documentation skills; appreciation of  simple design and a love to write clean, well-tested code.
• Track record of timely delivery of high-quality software.  
•  Passion for mentorship, guidance, and direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds  among teams and individuals.
• Ability to care deeply about people and help them become their best selves.
• A love to learn and teach equally well and possess a growth mindset.
• Ability to participate  actively in the local development and open-source communities.  
• Ability to balance management and individual contributor responsibilities when needed and provide  guidance on code reviews or pull requests.