Software Engineer Manager

Role Description

As a Software Engineer Manager, you will be given a chance to contribute to the products we create and help grow the next generation of engineering talent.

• 30% Delivery & Execution:
  • Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
  • Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
  • Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
  • Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
  • Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
  • Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
  • Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
  • Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
  • Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
• 10% Support & Enablement:
  • Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
  • Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
  • Provides application support for software running in production
  • Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
• 50% People:
  • Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
  • Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
  • Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
  • Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
  • Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
  • Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
  • Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• 10% Learning:
  • Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
  • Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)

Requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Proven track record of successfully leading software engineering teams and delivering complex projects
• Mastery of Java and proficient in Python
• Mastery of writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Experience in creating, deploying, and maintaining ML platforms and infrastructure
• Experience in streamlining end-to-end process of taking ML models to production
• Experience working with Data Scientists, proficient in data engineering and interfacing with ML models
• Mastery of modern product development processes and pipelines
• Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
• Proficient in effective system monitoring and log analysis techniques
• Capable of understanding complicated systems quickly
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Experience balancing workloads across teams
• Experience with translating high level strategy to tactical execution

Benefits

• Health care benefits
• 401K
• ESPP
• Paid time off
• Success sharing bonus