Engineering Manager

Description

Why YOU want this position:

The Team:

What You Will Do:

• Directly manage one or more teams that include full-time employees and contractors to build and support our SaaS applications.
• Ensure that engineering teams have access to the skills, tools, processes, etc. that they need to produce high-quality, on-time software that meets our customers' expectations.
• Recruit, on-board, mentor, and grow software engineers.
• Contribute to design, architecture, process, and development discussions.
• Be a strong technical leader and an independent, critical, and analytic thinker.
• Regularly participate in strategic planning discussions to provide insightful ideas on process improvements and scaling-related challenges.
• Provide guidance to teams and other departments in identifying product and technical requirements.
• Advocate for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy.
• Foster engineering excellence and a collaborative culture.

What You Should Have:

• 3+ years of experience directly managing software teams delivering SaaS products.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related engineering degree.
• Effective communication, leadership, and people management skills are mandatory.
• Take full ownership of your work and take responsibility every step of the way.
• Experience with Agile frameworks like Scrum and with continuous integration / continuous delivery.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure and platform services.
• Agile, proactive, comfortable working with ambiguous specifications and can prioritize on the fly.
• Experience in building available, scalable, secure, and resilient systems.
• Strong ability to breakdown large complex problems into small, simpler ones to solve technical and business challenges.
• Solid leadership skills with the ability to influence others.
• Strong customer service skills with the ability to communicate effectively with non-technical personnel.
• In-depth knowledge and expertise with software development strategies/methodologies, software tools, and release coordination and planning for bringing commercial products to market.
• Strong experience with at least one of the technologies listed below.
• Excellent understanding of data structure and algorithms.
• Proven record of accomplishment of hiring and managing diverse, deeply talented & high performing engineering teams

Our Technology Stack: